Comment 52 for bug 72812

On Hardy it does appear to be fixed in Firefox 3.

However it still occurs in Thunderbird. Must be two years it has been occurring for now, through all upgrades. Both the right pane email preview and a newly opened html email window will not show their html content without a resize. Definitely related to uptime, for me it occurs after two to three weeks of uptime (on a machine with plenty of resources).

Can someone make or give a pointer to an internal stack counter desktop widget or plugin. Something that shows one or two key internal counters or similar. Something like "Free redraw buffers:" or "Allocated html buffer queues:" or "Window paint requests:" or related variables. I don't know the real names or details. Those then afflicted by the bug can monitor one or two of these. If the counters don't go astray, they can move on to the next one. If enough people report that one counter always goes up (or free down), we may have a starting point for finding the leak that causes this whole bug. I want to help with fixing this, but it's obviously deep in the internals and not easily reproducable.