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Every time I open Firefox 3, it looks this ugly while the page loads.
I also get ugly right click "xfce4 drop-down menu" sometimes with the same sideways breakage and tearing.
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I also had this problem, and I found that it only happened when the desktop effects (shadows, transparency etc) were enabled. When I disabled the composite effects in the settings, the tearing went away.
I don't know if its an issue with the xfce effects or something else. For me I just suspected that my graphics card was strained and couldn't handle it (old laptop, 2mb on-board trident)
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I also had this problem, and I found that it only happened when the desktop effects (shadows, transparency etc) were enabled. When I disabled the composite effects in the settings, the tearing went away.
I don't know if its an issue with the xfce effects or something else. For me I just suspected that my graphics card was strained and couldn't handle it (old laptop, 2mb on-board trident)
Yeah, I turned compiz off and "xfce4 w/ compositing" was still doing it. Then I turned the xfce4 compositing off and it loaded correctly.
I wish someone could fix this. It used to happen on my Celeron M laptop, and now it still happens on my Turion 64x2 TL-60 with 4GB of ram. It should load like thunar or nautilus...... all at once with no tearing or breakage.
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