244781 - Slashdot pages randomly fail to display

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 217527

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Brian Frink]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514

I brose slashdot.org opening links as new tabs in the background.  When I switch
to view the tab after it has loaded I often find the page is rendered completely
wrong with unreadable text.  I then hit 'reload' and it loads correctly.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Brian Frink]

Attachment: screenshot of problem

Comment 2

[Brian Frink]

This is on 1.7rc2 on Mac, but I have seen the same problem on Linux and I
*think* also on 1.6.

Comment 3

[Olivier Cahagne]

can you check if bug 217527 describe the same issue ?

Comment 4

[Brian Frink]

Bug 217527 refers to minor problems with overlapping text.  As you can see from
the screenshots this is far more serious and the text is completely unreadable.
 However I suppose it is possible that is an extreme case of  the issue in bug
217527.

Comment 5

[Tom Taylor]

Attachment: Screenshot of problem

I experience the same problem as the original creator of this bug report, but
also experience this. If I refresh enough the times I can minimise the problem,
but never eradicate it.

Comment 6

[Tom Taylor]

This is occuring on Firefox 0.8/Win and 0.9/Win.

Comment 7

[Javad]

I am getting this to occure too.

Comment 8

[Javad]

I am getting this to occur too with the milestone .9 under windows.

Comment 9

[Javad]

Attachment: screenshot of problem

From http://interviews.slashdot.org/

Comment 10

[Kevin Searle]

(In reply to comment #8)
> I am getting this to occur too with the milestone .9 under windows.

This also occurs in Firefox 0.9 for Linux. Note that it occurs on regular page
loads, tabbed loading and from form submission using the POST method on same site.

I have seen this on additional sites, but failed to report them.

UA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040615 Firefox/0.9

Comment 11

[Michael Lefevre]

bug 217527 is describing the same issue. Although the earlier comments in that
bug are about minor overlap, you'll see that the summary say "too narrow or too
wide" - including when the column is so wide that the whole page disappears.

That bug is fixed on the trunk, but not yet fixed on the branches (because the
fix caused a regression), so it still happens in Mozilla 1.7 and Firefox 0.9/1.0
builds.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 217527 ***