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firefox-3.5 package

firefox flickers rapidly and renders system unusable

Asked by James Deibele

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

I'm running the first alpha of Lucid Lynx.

I've tried installing 3 versions of Nvidia's drivers from their site. With the first one, 190.42 (I believe), things worked fine. With the last two 190.53 and 195.22 Firefox "goes crazy" - it flickers rapidly in such a way to make the other windows unusable. I end up logging out because I can't close the Firefox window.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Dec 12 20:12:33 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20091209)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox 3.5.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-7.10-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-7-generic x86_64

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This question was originally filed as bug #496074.

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James Deibele (jdeibele) said : 		#1
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James Deibele (jdeibele) said : 		#2

Looks like it's working now ... even with 64-bit Flash, which is not working with Chrome.

Cool!

I'll submit a report if it re-occurs.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#3

Since Lucid Alpha isn't meant for productive environment, you'll may get support on IRC #ubuntu+1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nvidia-drivers-ubuntu/+bug/494166
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/FeatureStatus
http://www.ubuntustats.com/

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