258620 - Rendering broken on slashdot.org, but fixes itself when you resize the font

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 217527

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Trevino]

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

At the page www.slashdot.org, the left-bar will occasionally blend with the
center bar (main story bar), and text will be garbled together. This can be
remedied by resizing the text (ctrl+, ctrl-), but it seems like a cheap fix.  It
seems to occur at random.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to slashdot.org
2.If left-column text is not garbled with center column, click on the slashdot
logo to refresh. (repeat as necessary)
3.

Actual Results:  
The text columns were rendered together, garbling the text

Expected Results:  
The columns should be discrete and not interfere with each other's space.

Comment 1

[Arthur Wiebe]

This happens only when there is no advertisement at the top of the page. This
doesn't look like a bug with Firefox but this should be a tech evangelism bug.

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

This is a known bug. Should be fixed in the 1.8a branch. See bug 217527.

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