weird occurance (potential problem?)

[fuscia]

ok, so i had thunderbird open and i clicked preferences. just before the preferences window opened, an image of a sailor flashed in the very same spot. i don't have any pictures of sailors. wtf?

[michaelzap]

Sounds to me like you have an add-on installed that's doing this.

[fuscia]

Sounds to me like you have an add-on installed that's doing this.

i'm not using any add-ons in thunderbird.

[pmj]

Perhaps your subconscious is trying to tell you something?

Or it might just be an X glitch. If it has flying icons, it could have flashing sailors too.

[FuturePilot]

That is bizarre. Does it do it every time? Have you tried launching it from the terminal?

[fuscia]

it just happened that one time, but there have been some odd flashes in xfce.

[zapjb]

Maybe it's an "easter egg" you're not supposed to see.

[BarfBag]

You say it was in Thunderbird? Maybe it was a virus in an e-mail attachment trying to get onto your system. As far as I know, the Windows Thunderbird is the same as the Linux Thunderbird.

[init1]

Maybe it's an "easter egg" you're not supposed to see.
Sounds like an easter egg to me. Might be a virus though.

[FuturePilot]

A virus on Linux?:-k

[ShareBuntu]

I doubt it's a glitch in X. Most probably something in an e-mail trying to get into your system. Either that or cocaine's a helluva drug.

[fuscia]

Bytes;2856491']Either that or cocaine's a helluva drug.

meh, cocaine blows (oops! sorry about the pun). anyway, i have thunderbird set for plain text. i'm also getting some glitches in my menu. they're just flashes, so this is still at the 'hm, that's odd' stage.

[fuscia]

uh-oh, this can't be good. check out the rulers on this gimp window...