544746 - tinglysning.dk broken in Fx3.6, works in Fx3.5, IE8 and Chrome 4.0

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Danish, defect)

Description

[Jesper Kristensen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; da; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: 

The site https://www.tinglysning.dk/ is broken in Firefox 3.6, but works in Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 8 and Chrome 4.0.

The site belongs to the government administration, which keep track of land ownership in Denmark. Any change of land ownership (typically buying or selling a house) is required by law to be registered (typically by the real estate agent or lawyer), and this site is the only way to do so.

The change happened between
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6673479e68ee
and
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5c913c4662d8

and I would guess it is caused by bug 476856.

The reason is a bug in the CSS style sheet of the site containing something like this:

background-image: url(foo.gif');

In Firefox 3.5 everything after this line in the style sheet is considered a syntax error and is ignored. In any other browser only the particular line is ignored and everything after it is used.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit https://www.tinglysning.dk/ in Firefox 3.6

Actual Results:  
Most of the page except for the top menu is shifted to the right, totally out of view in an 1024px wide browser window.

Expected Results:  
Page should work like in any other browser.

Comment 1

[Jesper Kristensen]

Attachment: Actual result

Comment 2

[Jesper Kristensen]

Attachment: Minimal test

Minimal test, which displays a Red background in Firefox 3.6 and a green background in the other mentioned browsers.

Comment 3

[Jesper Kristensen]

(In reply to comment #0)
> In Firefox 3.5 everything after this line in the style sheet is considered a

That should obviously have been 3.6 instead of 3.5. However they have fixed the problem now.