258221 - occasional overlapping table text with slashdot pages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 217527

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dave Schmidt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

I've noticed that once in a while, guessing 3 out of 10 times, some of the text
on the slashdot main page overlaps.  The overlap, I believe, occurs between 2
table elements.

Since it may be difficult to reproduce, I've captured a screenshot and posted it
on my home page, along with the saved page.  The saved source is exactly what
was captured in the image; however - strangely - when I opened the *saved*
version of the page in Firefox, it looked ok.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. navigate to slashdot.org
2. view the main page
3. sometimes, there is overlap between the 2 left most columns

Actual Results:  
sometimes, there is overlap between the 2 left most columns

Expected Results:  
not rendered the overlap

Sometimes, the condition can be cleared by hitting refresh (although the
contents sometimes change when I do that).

Other activities that result in a redraw of the page may clear the condition.

Comment 1

[Dave Schmidt]

oops - forgot my home url:

http://home.earthlink.net/~daves73/slashdot/

I'll also try to see if I can attach the image to this defect entry.

Comment 2

[Dave Schmidt]

Attachment: window capture of text overlap condition

I added the red arrow myself, of course :)

Comment 3

[Dave Schmidt]

Attachment: I saved the page when the overlap condition occurred

This is the saved page when the overlap occurred.  Note: when I loaded the
saved page, it rendered fine.

Comment 4

[Ryan Polk (Quark)]

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