As mentioned in a previous post, Firefox 4 is suffering badly from a known bug in Compiz on Linux. After coming out of a screen saver, menus will disappear when hovered over.
Minimising and maximising the browser will fix the problem, but for a permanent fix, the only solution seems to be to disable Compix until a newer version of Compiz arrives in your distro. For Ubuntu users, that will be soon- Natty has the fix. For Debian users like me, Compiz will be disabled for quite a while.
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KWin isn't affected and it has great effects.
ReplyDeleteI have the same problem. However, I thought there might be a correlation between Thunderbird and Firefox. I usually have both open. Well the menu in Thunderbird was disappearing. I closed Firefox and the menu was fine. Later the reverse happened, Firefox menu was disappearing. Closed Thunderbird and menu is fine. Curious isn't it?
ReplyDeleteNot to mention scrolling issues as well.....
ReplyDeleteReminds me... I haven't had screensavers installed for years,, they still around?
ReplyDeleteIt's easier to write "coming out of a screensaver" than "reactivating the screen after the screen has been put to sleep following a period of inactivity" I suppose.
ReplyDeleteI have a screen saver enabled but it's just there for 5 minutes to say "you haven't used the computer for 5 minutes so the screen is going to sleep in a bit", rather than the screen just blanking out and me wondering whether it's a power cut.
Why Debian Testing isn't going to update Compiz soon? It looks like be outdated... same as Wine, removed from testing: I had to install it manually from an Ubuntu package: that's not good for Debian...
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