Blank Spaces in Menus w/ Widescreen and Firefox Dev
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This post is mostly to document this issue+workaround in case anyone else runs into it.
I found a glitch where my Firefox (Nightly 16 & 17 64bit) doesn't display menus properly, when the Widescreen Package is installed.
My dropdown menus display blank spaces at the top of them.This can be overcome by disabling Hardware Acceleration in Firefox (Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General -> take check off 'Use Hardware Acceleration …').
If I reenable HWA again, the menus continue to render properly until the next Firefox restart.I'll wait and see if this straightens itself out over time. If not, I'll do some debugging - maybe wipe FFX and reload from scratch.
For the record, here's my relevant info:
The pfSense machines I checked are running 2.0.1-RELEASE (i386) Dec 12
On pfSense boxes without the Widescreen package installed, menus are fine.
Have only seen this on my notebook running AMD Radeon HD-6620G, driver 8.836.1.0 5/25/11
and (currently) Firefox Nightly 17.0a1 (2012-08-01).Disabling all Firefox add-ons has no effect.
I'm not having issues w/ any other website.
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There are a lot of Mozilla posts w/ similar issues. Those users are running release candidates of Firefox. Disabling HWA fixes it for them.
That's all.
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I have the issue with the menu's appearing under the traffic graphs with the widescreen addon.