196014 - mozilla can't display the bottom of a document

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 188564

(Core :: Web Painting, defect)

Description

[SR]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030301
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030301

Fetch the URL given.
You should be shown a page containing information about Vim.
Note that there are 2 vertical slides.
Note that the leftmost is unusable.
If you slide the rightmost to the bottom, then you'll notice that after some
point, mozilla won't be able to render the page and will display the same blocks
of previously rendered contents repeatingly.

The page may be uncorrectly written (and probably is, hence the behaviour). But
it should not lead to such a behaviour.
The page "correctly" renders with ie6, that is there is only one vertical slide
bar, and all the text is displayed in the same way, like the top of the document.

The bug also appears with older versions of Mozilla 1.3.

For information, on my version of mozilla, nothing is rendered after the second
"<br>" in the cod
==========
<p>
Save this file as tags_gen.sh and do chmod a+rx tags_gen.sh.


<hr>
#!/bin/sh<br>
tmp_tag=tags_file<br>
tmp_tag2=tags_file2

<p>
==========


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> Note that there are 2 vertical slides.

The page explicitly requests this.

But I'm also seeing the garbage painting with Linux trunk build 2003-03-03-05.

Comment 2

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 188564 ***