260256 - Error rendering pages containing tables

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 217527

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ben Morris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

Some pages (I think it is pages with tables, but maybe they have to have CSS as
well), display with too little space between columns, so that in some cases the
text overlaps. For some reason, the page returns to normal as soon as I change
the text size.

Slashdot.org in seems to cause this bug a lot.
I have yet to find a static page that displays this bug, and Slashdot only does
this some of the time.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter http://slashdot.org into the address bar.
2. The left-hand bar (with sections, help, etc.) will often overlap with the
main content of the page. If it doesn't one of the current stories probably will.
3. Press ctrl+=, then ctrl+- to change the text size, then change it back. Page
displays correctly.

Actual Results:  
Page does not display correctly until text size is changed.

Expected Results:  
Page renders correctly as soon as it loads.

I was about to report this as a Mozilla bug, but then 1.7 came along and it
seemed to be fixed. I did not see this bug in FireFox 0.9.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

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