1086561 - On AMD Developer pages text looks oddly colored in Firefox, whereas in Google Chrome looks perfect

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Zex]

Attachment: amd_page.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
Build ID: 20140923175406

Steps to reproduce:

I visited this page:

http://developer.amd.com/resources/documentation-articles/articles-whitepapers/tiled-convolution-fast-image-filtering/


Actual results:

Instead of black text it appears in combination of black and green. Some words are black, some are green and the coloration doesn't stop on word boundaries (meaning, a word can start black and end green or vice versa). It applies to headlines too. Hard to read.


Expected results:

In Chrome the text is black and perfectly readable.

Comment 1

[Zex]

Damn, now that I

Comment 2

[Zex]

Now that I clicked the link above, everything works. Today and yesterday it didn't work on two occasions, but now that I reported the damn bug, it works. And I still have the tab open where the text is green. That tab still reproduces the bug.

I created that tab by middle-clicking a Google Search result (to open it in a new tab). I clicked several other links like that, so they all loaded in parallel. Then I switched to the first tab and read it, then second, etc, until I came to the AMD tab. All other tabs/sites/documents I opened were fine, except this one. What's worse, when I now open the page in a new tab, it looks ok.

I just moved the problematic tab to a new window (right click => Move to New Window) and the problem is still there. So that tab is somehow corrupt while other tabs work fine. No matter how I reopen the link, it works now.

One last thing... I'll click reload.... yeah, now the problematic tab shows the page correctly as well. I don't know why it failed before. I didn't interrupt it or anything. It just happens sometimes.

Comment 3

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Thank you for reporting the bug!

Sounds like this is worksforme now? If this reproduces again and/or you figure out more details, please feel free to reopen this bug. In which case, please include your about:support output, and try if you can reproduce the problem in "safe mode" (help > restarts with add-ons disabled; this will also turn off graphics hardware acceleration and make some other tweaks).