160250 - Not all of some pages are displayed

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Christoph Donges]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721
BuildID:    2002072104

On some pages - particulary on large slashdot pages or yahoo mail the bottom of
the page is cut off. 

If I look at the html source it looks like it has been truncated at a random place.

This may have started when I installed Netscape 6 but it has continued when I
uninstalled netscape and mozilla and reinstalled mozilla.

Pages load fine in ie6.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to slashdot home page
2.Click on a story
3.If no bug, try the next one.

Comment 1

[Niklas Dougherty]

As I understand it, the page is not really cut off, but rather is a gray chunk
added to the bottom. This has to do with the site navigation bar coming on and
off. Slashdot uses such navigation elements (next, index, authors and so on,
defined in the header).

There is another instance when this behavior appears, namely if you change the
style sheet on the fly. You can see this on my homepage at
http://homepage.mac.com/nikd/dvd/almost_famous/ if you click the bottom buttons.
This will change the style sheet, and if the viewport is shrunk, there will be
some extra dull stuff added to the bottom.

Another problem with navigation bars is if you have a plugin fairly high up on
the page and right-click a link into a new tab containing such a navigation bar.
When collapsing the tab, the navigation bar is also collapsed, and residues of
the plugin are shown above the actual canvas. This can be seen at
http://homepage.mac.com/nikd/ (the xeyes Quicktime implementation will leave
ghost trails after returning from a tab).

The navigation bar was left out of Mozilla 1.0, and I believe work is going on
in 1.1b.

Comment 2

[Christoph Donges]

Attachment: Here is the page source from a broken slashdot page

Here is a sample source page that is not working.

This page works fine using ie from the same pc.

Comment 3

[Michael Lefevre]

attached page is indeed incomplete - looks like it didn't finish downloading.
haven't actually seen this happen on slashdot though, so WFM with
2002100908/trunk/win2k.

reporter (Christoph): can you reproduce this bug with a recent build of mozilla
(for example, 1.2alpha)? if so, please comment again with details. if not,
please resolve this bug as WORKSFORME. thanks.

Comment 4

[Christoph Donges]

May have been a problem with my proxy.

Works now.  Sorry, thanks.

Comment 5

[Michael Lefevre]

thanks for the response.

verified.