292686 - Default page shows trash in certain situations

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Description

[Willem Bermon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

When opening the forum using http://forums.gentoo.org/index.php there is no
problem but when using http://forums.gentoo.org Mozilla Firefox shows the page
all trashed up. Page is built up out of many '?'s and other complex ascii
characters.

I solved the problem by clearing out the cache, cookies, saved form information
and histories.

Reproducible: Didn't try




The effect has been seen on 2 PCs running Windows XP/SP2 so far both using
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

wfm with FF 1.0.4 and win2k

Comment 2

[William Cline]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Firefox/1.0.4

Also unable to reproduce.  The page loads fine for me.

Comment 3

[Willem Bermon]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
> Firefox/1.0.4
> 
> Also unable to reproduce.  The page loads fine for me.

The problem i noted is not only based on the fact that the page doesn't load
properly but it had to do with the fact that the cache or history was full.

I remeber an internet explorer problem which had the same characteristics in
which the "page source" screen didn't come up with a full cache. Yeah i know
this isn't internet explorer but a full cache is a full cache.

Has someone taken a look at what happens if a page is requested and it can't
precache certain objects due to a full page buffer?


BTW I haven't experienced the problem ever since i upgraded and since we are up
to 1.0.4 and the bug is non-critical i'd advise to discontinue this bug report
until someone encounters it again. 

Thanks for looking into it btw.

Mozilla still rocks :-)

Comment 4

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Resolving as WFM per comments 1 through 3.