Firefox bug with CSS "display" style changes

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open a web page with O3D content.
2. Using Firebug or your own page content, make sure the O3D div (or 
anything wrapping it) has the "display" property set.
3. Using Firebug or your own page mechanism, change the value of the 
"display" property.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
In Chrome, Safari, IE7, and IE8, the O3D content continues to render 
properly. In Firefox, the content pane turns completely gray as if it is no 
longer painting to the screen. Reloading the window fixes the problem.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Browser: Firefox 3.6
OS: Windows XP Professional 2002 Service Pack 3

What hardware are you using:  graphics card type?  motherboard type?
Dell Latitude D830
Intel Core2 Duo T7700 @ 2.40GHz
2 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M

Please provide any additional information below.
I believe this is specific to the O3D plugin and not Firefox itself. If I 
reproduce these steps on a Youtube video, for instance, the video simply 
reloads.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by erik.kit...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2010 at 9:22

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I forgot to mention that this seems specific to the "display" property. 
Changing other 
properties like height, width, or visibility does not produce this bug.

Original comment by erik.kit...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2010 at 9:34

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This also occurs with Mac OS X Firefox 3.x.

Original comment by jpywt...@gmail.com on 25 Feb 2010 at 4:11