Firefox artifacts

Hi
for some time now I've got a lot of artifacts with firefox, like images having some lines [left,right]-shifted, black lines in the code templates at this forum (those things you make with [ code ][ /code ]), faulty drawn widgets, ...
I've made a screenshot to show you some of them, if you look closely at the seventh until ninth tab (CERN until Wikipedia on Dirac) you can see that their bottoms are drawn differently than all others. This is how tabs are drawn when they've been hovered by the mouse, otherwise they look like the others (and they get reset when firefox looses focus).
You can also notice that the scrollbar on the left of the "More of ..." menu is drawn faulty...
These are minor stuff but they are pretty annoying because they appear so frequently... Is anyone else experiencing this? I might file a bug one of these days, I couldn't find one about this yet.
Last edited by Ramses de Norre (2007-10-22 17:45:32)

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