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strange Firefox issues since SL upgrade

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edk

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Apr 12, 2006
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Hi,

since doing the SL upgrade, I've been having a number of interface/firefox issues, such as:

- sometimes, the page within the browser window 'shakes' back and forth. As if I were moving the horizontal bar back and forth. (that bar shouldn't be there anyhow).

- 'tooltips?' don't stay visible. If I hover over a link such as 'mac applications' above, a tooltip appears but then vanishes straight away.

- often when scrolling within a page, i lose the ability to go up and down with the arrow keys or the scroll wheel. Only solution is to move the handles on the right of the window.

- drop down boxes don't work. they vanish straight away.

anyone else had these issues with firefox? Safari seems fine.
 
tried that, didn't help :(

btw, the wobbly window happens in the OS actually as well. If I open finder, and by default it hasn't stretched to the full width - it wobbles back and forth - as if I am wiggling the horizontal blue scroll handle.

bizarre!!
 
edk said:
tried that, didn't help :(

btw, the wobbly window happens in the OS actually as well. If I open finder, and by default it hasn't stretched to the full width - it wobbles back and forth - as if I am wiggling the horizontal blue scroll handle.

bizarre!!
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Hmm, did you do an upgrade or clean install? I recommend you to do clean now if you didn't
 
just an upgrade..... full clean might be required... :(
 
edk said:
just an upgrade..... full clean might be required... :(
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Clean isn't that bad thing. My install time was half and restoring 100GB with Migration Assistant took half an hour. That means, the total time was same, 1 hour install time with upgrade and 30min install + 30min restoring. Everything was same, I mean everything.
 
did u also migrate the apps etc?

Real full clean install would be NOT doing that :) However, it is something I like to do every major OS release. Just don't have the time right now....
 
edk said:
did u also migrate the apps etc?

Real full clean install would be NOT doing that :) However, it is something I like to do every major OS release. Just don't have the time right now....
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I know it's not 100% clean install but in my experience, doing a clean install and then restoring from TM backup is still a lot better than doing an upgrade.
 
oh well.. did a clean install and migrate - but the issues are still there.

wobbly test everywhere.
mouse loses focus and can't click in browser.
clicking into menus, i can't glide from one to the next anymore - need to click, click, click.

all very odd. never had such an update problem before.

I guess a total clean manual install is the next option.. :(
 
edk said:
- often when scrolling within a page, i lose the ability to go up and down with the arrow keys or the scroll wheel. Only solution is to move the handles on the right of the window.


anyone else had these issues with firefox? Safari seems fine.
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Yeah. . . I've been having this problem for months now. First i thought it was something I did, but know I know better. :)
 
issue identified

I think I solved these weird issues.

I simply unplugged my logitech laser mouse (the wireless docking station) and instead use my wired mighty mouse.

The problems have now vanished.

Previously, I had used the SL LCC install tips mentioned on this forum to get the mouse working. But it seems that for some reason, it doesn't work 100%. I guess we just need to wait for an official upgrade from Logitech.

Bottom line, the issue wasn't the Mac OS, but the logitech sw :)
 
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