254943 - slashdot text missing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 217527

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[d.nordquest]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a1) Gecko/20040520
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a1) Gecko/20040520

Frequently, the text in the middle (main) portion of the Slashdot site is missing when using Mozilla.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the site.
2.  
3.



Expected Results:  
Text ought to have been rendered.

Comment 1

[bablu_abhi]

Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2)
Gecko/20040826 Firefox/0.9.1+

Can confirm the bug on Firefox 2004-08-26 on Windows. Symptoms are

On the main Page of http://slashdot.org/, the text doesn't appear. However, if
you scroll to the right, you can see the text. However, the background color is
black, so the text can't be read. Only links can be read, as they show up in
Slashdot green.

Comment 2

[Jon Skeet]

I see this bug quite often, too. It doesn't happen every time by a long shot -
reloading the main page several times just now, I've seen it about half the time.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

Comment 3

[Ronny Adsetts]

I can also confirm this on Win2k with 0.9.3 (20040803). Viewing slashdot
articles frequently results in content being position one screen width to the
right. Hitting refreshing once or twice results in a correctly rendered page.

I'll try and get a screenshot attached.

Possibly related to bugs #166705 or #175364?

Comment 4

[Ronny Adsetts]

Attachment: Screenshot of mis-rendered slashdot article page

Screenshot added.

Comment 5

[Jim Warren]

This looks like a duplicate of bug #217527.  It has a lot more information about
this problem.

Comment 6

[Michael Lefevre]

It is a duplicate - this bug has been fixed on the trunk.  It remains in the
branches for Mozilla 1.7.x and Firefox 1.0PR/1.0RC/1.0 because the fix for it
causes other issues.

Jim - thanks for pointing it out. When you've done a few of those, you can
request bugzilla permissions to do it yourself - see
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/bugzilla-privilege-guide.html

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