FireFox 3.0.5 Shaking Jittery bouncy buggy Web Browser

I have been a user of this Firefox web browser since 2003. I first used it on my desktop in 2003, before I bought a new laptop in 2006. I used Window XP on both computers. Firefox has been great for me over the past 6 years.

As you can observe, I set my default homepage for my browser to be Firefox's Google.com homepage. In mid-December 2008, I was informed that Firefox is upgradable. When offered, I accepted. (Why not accept?) This latest version, 3.0.5, has not been treating me well because it has a defect. The defect is that the screen, as soon as I first open up Firefox's Google.com, is jumpy/bouncy/jittery/shaky. It never stops this irritating motion. I visit other sites while it bounces up and down, and it still is a bouncing web page at my site destinations. I open up a new Firefox to have two browsers open, and the second Firefox is not bouncing, though that other first Firefox still is having a bouncing screen effect.

This problem is intermittent. The shaking bounciness of the Firefox browser does not always happen every single time I open up Firefox. I open up Firefox normally, and it might happen to shake or might not shake. Then I open up a new Firefox to have two regular Browsers open at the same time, and the new one doesn't shake. After seeing the more recently opened Firefox doesn't shake, I close the first Firefox that does shake. The next day, the problem may or may not repeat, but it does repeat eventually. It may take a few days off (or even a week off), but it is still not fixed. I opened it up in non-Safemode with no problem between Christmas and New Years Eve without it shaking, but it did revert to that shaking/jittering/bouncing problem on New Years Eve.

I have never had this problem before with any other earlier version of Firefox.

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[brandpanz]

I have the same problem. Heck, it's going on at this very moment.

[Netino78]

@winfidel having the same problem, i'll try your suggestion

[winfidel]

Happened to me today, Firefox 3.0.13 in Ubuntu, after I resized the window to a fairly small size.

After a quick search, I found something about the bookmark toolbar, which I had empty and disabled. After unhiding it, the problem went away. Then I noticed that the Bookmarks menu showed the Delicious bookmarklets, but they had been moved to the menubar, so I moved them back, then deleted them, then hid the again empty bookmark toolbar. The problem is now gone, so far. HTH.