148568 - some web sites are not displayed properly SOMETIMES (not always), probably table related

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 146851

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[David Tenser [:djst]]

From David Tenser ([e-mail]):
BuildID:    2002060108

Mozilla has big problems in rendering some sites with tables. Most of the time
it's rendered properly, but sometimes it does it wrong. Since it only occurs
sometimes, I am assuming that this is a bug in Mozilla. 

Here are three screenshots from Mozilla.
The url to the page in tested is http://www.aftonbladet.se

Screenshot 1 (the "normal" one):
http://m1.161.telia.com/~u16112907/normal.png
This is how the site is supposed to look. This is also how it always looks in
Internet Explorer 6.

Screenshot 2:
http://m1.161.telia.com/~u16112907/moz2.png
This is how it can look sometimes. The main table is too close to the menu, and
it's also too wide.

Screenshot 3 (worst possible case):
http://m1.161.telia.com/~u16112907/moz.png
This happened once, and I can't reproduce it. However, I got similar results on
http://www.mozillaquest.com

Screenshot 3 is a few hours older than the other two (hence the different
headlines). Screenshot 1, the normal one, was taken right after pressing Reload
when the page looked slighly messy (screenshot 2).

Mozilla appears to have rendering problems with the tables. This is just a guess
though. IE *never* have these problems on this page. In Mozilla, it displays
with errors about 1/4 of the times.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on the url http://www.aftonbladet.se (assuming Mozilla is your default
browser) to open the link in a NEW WINDOW (important!)
2. If the page displays properly, like screenshot 1, you'll have to close the
window and open up a new one. Just pressing Reload never seems to render a
faulty page. Errors only seem to occur when visiting the site for the first time
for that particular browser window.

Also, if/when the page renders incorrectly, pressing Reload will almost
certainly fix the problem. If not, try hitting Reload again.

Actual Results:  http://m1.161.telia.com/~u16112907/moz2.png (sometimes)

Expected Results:  http://m1.161.telia.com/~u16112907/normal.png

Members of netscape.public.mozilla.general have confirmed this on Windows 98 and
Linux too, so it's not browser specific. And since the problem also occurs on
mozillaquest.com it's not site specific either.

Comment 1

[Dave]

I see this with Win 98 daily build 2002060108.  Maybe see Bug 148355 (duped
against Bug 140682)?  Though I am not sure it's the same reason...

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 146851 ***

Comment 3

[David Tenser [:djst]]

.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

PLEASE DON'T USE "CLOSE"

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 146851 ***

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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