261748 - Incomplete display of text on fully loaded webpage, complete text visible in source

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 256180

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Srini]

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

Problem found when loading
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.aspx?story_id=2108523

The story on the page is not completely rendered, even though the footer at the
bottom lends the impression of a completely loaded webpage. When the entire text
is selected and copied to the clip board, the missing text is revealed.

The webpage does have odd tags in the HTML, but in this particular case the bug
is important because it's hard to tell that the page isn't completely displayed.

Screen shots of bug available at http://cheeni.net/FF_display_bug/

Bug also replicable on older Firebird - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

FWIW, page renders properly on MS IE 6.0.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.aspx?story_id=2108523

Actual Results:  
See incompletely loaded story at bottom of page. Footer is complete. Source
display or copying the rendered webpage into the clipboard reveals missing text.

Expected Results:  
Rendered missing text, or displayed a warning regarding the presence of
incompatible markup, alert like so - "WARNING: This webpage can't be displayed
properly, do you still want to display it? - YES NO".

about:buildconfig

Build platform
target
i686-pc-cygwin

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
$(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 	12.00.8804 	-TC -nologo -W3 -nologo -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)
$(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 	12.00.8804 	-TP -nologo -W3 -nologo -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)

Configure arguments
--disable-ldap --disable-mailnews
--enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref,transformiix,universalchardet,webservices,inspector,gnomevfs,negotiateauth
--enable-crypto --disable-composer --enable-single-profile
--disable-profilesharing --enable-optimize --disable-debug --disable-tests
--enable-static --disable-shared --enable-official-branding

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040926
Firefox/0.10

WFM

try a newer build and see if that works.
I had IE/FF side by side and couldn't see any difference.

Comment 2

[Srini]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040926
> Firefox/0.10
> 
> WFM
> 
> try a newer build and see if that works.
> I had IE/FF side by side and couldn't see any difference.


Hi,

From my logs I see that you haven't actually seen the screen shots, take a look
at them, the difference is hard to tell without seeing the commented image.

I will try a newer build.

Cheeni

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I can see the bug, using:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; @AB_CD@; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040923
Firefox/0.9.1+

Removing some of these <wc> and <wc1> tags makes the text display, so I think
this page suffers from bug 58917.

(Thanks for the screenshots, that made it easier to see what was wrong)

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Frankie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 256180 ***