200870 - Poor rendering of page leads to a small page being hundreds of pages wide and long

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Sanjay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

This page should be a fairly short page but in 1.4a (and I think this also
occured in one of the 1.3 releases if not the last one) the form is scattered
throughout a very large rendering.  The search button is on the very last page
with the other form elements on the first page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. No special setup.  Just go to the URL above.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Page rendered over a few hundred pages (scrolling both left<->right and up<->down).

Expected Results:  
Rendered the page simply and on one screen, not over a few hundred.

Comment 1

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

WFM, Win XP 2003040504

Comment 2

[Josh Birnbaum]

WFM as well, WinXP Pro with Moz 1.4a.  Maybe try a new profile?

Comment 3

[Sanjay]

Should I send a screen shot of what it looks like?  BTW, I'm on Windows 2K SP3.

Comment 4

[Sanjay]

Attachment: Three screenshots of the Google URL that cause a rendering problem.

Comment 5

[Sanjay]

I downgraded to 1.2.1 and the issue still occured (and it hadn't when I 
originally installed it).  I re-upgraded to 1.4a and the issue was still 
there.  I then started removing Windows updates and only got around to removing 
one because I had to reboot because of it.  Specifically it was Q331953.  
Mozilla now renders properly.  I'll try to reinstall this Windows update to 
make sure it breaks Mozilla functionality.  If it doesn't, I'm not sure what 
the problem is.

Comment 6

[Sanjay]

Rinstalled the Windows update in question and Mozilla still renders properly.  
Not sure what to say now.  I guess I'll keep an eye on it and see if I can 
reproduce but I think I somehow may have fixed it through all the install and 
uninstalls.

Comment 7

[Josh Birnbaum]

resolving as invalid (system problem, not mozilla)...  If it happens again,
please reopen.