Bug 463746

Summary:	www-client/firefox-bin checkboxes graphical corruption
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Raphaël Droz <raphael.droz+floss>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	emerge --info emerge --info

Description Raphaël Droz 2013-03-29 16:11:28 UTC

Using firefox-bin 17.0.4 I can observe a graphical corruption of checkboxes.
When a checkbox is checked, (checked="checked"), the check inside the box will only show up when the mouse hovers over the input (or the related label).

I use a NV34 card and recently switched back from nouveau to nvidia.
I don't remember having ever seen such a problem before (say one week), so I first thought that the issue would be related to drivers.
But the fact that the check appears when I hover the label associated with the input, makes the whole behaviour pretty strange.
As soon as I scroll, the check symbol disappears.
This applies to any within checkbox, preferences included, with javascript disabled. Flash and Java are disabled too.


Anyway I wasn't able to reproduce the issue with a sample checkbox from zenity, so I would say, for now, that the issue seems related the firefox UI alone (I have both gtk+ 2.24.12 and 3.4.4 slots installed).
I've not yet tried to reproduce this using nouveau.
Please note that I don't find any other corruption or artefacts on my desktop, what tends to exclude the driver cause too.


The issue is very annoying as I can't really tell for sure whether a checkbox is "on" or "off" and that makes filling a web form very painful, if not impossible.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Raphaël Droz 2013-03-29 16:12:18 UTC

Created attachment 343658 [details]
emerge --info

Comment 2 Raphaël Droz 2013-03-29 16:12:56 UTC

Created attachment 343660 [details]
emerge --info

Comment 3 Raphaël Droz 2013-03-29 16:23:25 UTC

Actually I *can* experience another corruption: with radio button.
A filled radio-button will sometimes disappears, partly or fully, when the mouse moves away from it.
The fact that it could disappears partly and leave a dirty graphical artefact seems to give weight to the driver-related hypothesis.

Note: I'm using nvidia 173.14.36 + the patches to fix 3.7/3.8 compilation.

Comment 4 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev

2013-03-29 23:20:10 UTC

Unless you can produce with a supported video driver nothing the mozilla team is gonna be able to due to assist you. If you feel this is in error you can file a bug upstream.