Strange Firefox artifacts

Over week ago after system upgrade I have strange Firefox artefacts (and other xulrunner based apps). Does anybody know the reason and the solution
I use testing repo. I thought that it is because pango either cairo or poppler, but all of them are 'stable'
btw. this situation pushed me to use Midori which seems to be very nice browser (powered with userscrpts.org)

toad wrote:I had that when I used testing and my video driver got updated. Reverting back to the old one worked for me.
In fact I use
xf86-video-ati
from Testing repo. I try to submit it as a bug.

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