265312 - pages display too wide

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Kris Silver]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041011 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041011 Firefox/0.10

On various pages on the web, Firefox loads pages to wide, forcing you to scroll
to read line by line.  This is not the case with everyone, but I have test on
various OS's, PC's, and out of 10 diff PC's, it happened to 2+.  If especially
happens strangely on the MOZILLA Forums, and also Spreadfirefox.com .  The
mozilla forums seem to load about an inch wider then it should on pages with
long posts, or something.

This link shows people having the same problem as me, on the same pages on the
forums as examples, and refreshes DO NOT solve the problem:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=146651&postdays=0&postorder=asc&postsperpage=15&start=45

I view these pages in IE fine, but FF continues to load these specific pages to
wide on a consistent basic, I have run tests and it happens precisely the same
and on the same pages to other users, some of which can confirm as an example in
that forum topic alone.  This really is embarrassing.  Mozilla put down MS for
not running to standards and theyre site not working on other browsers, when
Mozilla's own site is not working for what seems like a reasonable amount of
Mozilla users, on the mozilla site, worse - IE loads them fine.

If is the same pages, refreshes do not fix it, others have posted confirming,
and I have also ran tests, either the sites in question have a problem, or the
browser.  You may not be able to re-create it personally, this does not been the
bug is not there, I and many can re-create it all day, on whatever version FF,
with whatever settings.  The site or the browser, which is it?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=146651&postdays=0&postorder=asc&postsperpage=15&start=45
2. The page displays too wide
3. Refresh, the page is still too wide, happens quite regularly on various sites.

Actual Results:  
The page is 1 inch wider than it should be forcing you to read it line by line,
moving left and right.  IE displays it fine, FF, cannot - and it's Mozilla's site.

Expected Results:  
A page the same size width as the last, and every page on the site, as with IE
and previous pages.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

Every URL on that page the commenters say it works for them, or they identified
a problem with the page's code.

And this is not a buildconfig bug.

If you have a problem with a specific URL, file a bug on it (one site per bug --
not a broad bug like this that says 'sites don't work for me') in Browser/Layout
IF it's broken on a current trunk (not FF Aviary branch) nightly.

The MZ form WFM 20041019 trunk PC/Win2000

Comment 2

[Kris Silver]

Look, if I've filed it under the wrong area out of the hundreds there are, then
I'm sorry but it's clearer for an average basic user to fly a plane then what it
is file a bug here.  I understand it must be annoying & I'm sorry, but if a user
takes the time and effort to try and help what they support and want to see
succeed, don't respond with such hostility, and simply make the bug invalid. 
This  is a VERY valid bug, all be it 'under the wrong section' you have made no
effort to openly discuss it ot try to help.  Kindly take the time to notice I
said 'topic' not PAGE, so browse the topic & find people complaining of the
same, on the SAME mozilla forum pages with FIREFOX ONLY.  That is just one topic
example, I've come across many, and many more not reported on the forums - as
believe it or not, those forums aren't a bible of everything. Don't outrule this
with such ignorance or willingness to look into it. At least have the decency to
commen more specifically on the topic, when you accuse me of not being in the
right section, that's just rude, hypacritical and un-helpful, & certainly not
convincing me to carry on trying to convert everyone I know to Firefox saying
how it such a open community.

 I'm plainly telling you I can recreate it all day on various (1 in ten or so)
computers with Firefox, and it is always fine with IE.  So either the site is
doing something wrong, or the browser is.  And yes thanks, I have tried it on
some PC's with the latest trunk today, like I do regularly check, and it's
exactly the same, on EXACTLY the SAME pages, on the MOZILLA forums.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Diddykong: this bug report is INVALID not because there isn't a bug, but because
this bug report doesn't help fix it. If you can create an HTML testcase, or at
lesat diagnose the problem to specific HTML markup or CSS style rules, please
file another bug (and file it under Browser -> Layout).

Comment 4

[Kris Silver]

Thanks for being informative and too the point, if only that could have been the
case originally.  I can specify the site url:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=146651&postdays=0&postorder=asc&postsperpage=15&start=45
 

that alone must be something to go on?
However much more useful it is to provide HTML/CSS details, I'm a moderate level
user that doesnt know how to do that, unless it is V easy & you can demonstrate
in a couple of simple steps how I do that.  I havent had to do that reporting
bugs before, which I know doesnt help, but I'm trying to help by giving as much
info as I can.