298845 - Layout bug - letters overflow frame- missing background colors

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[claudio.schinazi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511

In Mozilla task bar menus (for example edit>preferences>appearance),the menu
layout lacks the background color ,the sub frames are unexistent, the letters
overflow the open window.

On some web sites, for example http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups, or
http://www.astrosurf.com/index.php3 (frame showing the site menu) the same occurs.

See examples in attachment  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start Mozilla from shortcut
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
see above

example can be seen on the forum at the following link, author sccc:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1566228&sid=75b75256ce6018c6144361e570bc6ba1#1566228

Expected Results:  
normal appearance

see example in the link as above

Operating system: Window 98 SE
Pentium III, 1 Ghz
512 Mo ram
Mozilla 1.7.8
Default theme: classic

When the problem occurs, toggling from one theme to another (example;
classic>modern or reverse) cures the problem. However, after exiting Mozilla and
starting it again, the problem comes back.

I tried to uninstall and re install the system (after removing the GRE file),
with no positive result.

Comment 1

[claudio.schinazi]

Attachment: Abnormal layout in Mozilla menu + website

Compare to attachment 2 [details] [diff] [review] showing the normal layout

Comment 2

[claudio.schinazi]

Tried to attach a screen shot of the problem but failed.

The screen shot may be seen at the link I posted in the descritpion of the bug.

Comment 3

[Hermann Schwab]

Comment on attachment 187361 [details]
Abnormal layout in Mozilla menu + website

attachment is type image/jpeg, not a text/plain patch.

Comment 4

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

This is not a crash; that would be the application quitting unexpectedly. 
Removing crash from the summary.

Comment 5

[claudio.schinazi]

Attachment: Normal layout for menu + web site

Comment 6

[claudio.schinazi]

I create a new attachment showing the layout of the same menu + web site as it
should look like.

Comment 7

[claudio.schinazi]

In this thread:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=285731

I found that the display problem could be linked to Stardownloader integration
(which I did when re installing Mozilla).

Can anybody comment about this?

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

So what are the actual steps to reproduce?  I note you conveniently left those out....

Does this bug happen in a Mozilla install from Mozilla.org with no extensions?

Comment 9

[claudio.schinazi]

(In reply to comment #8)
> So what are the actual steps to reproduce?  I note you conveniently left those
> out....
> 
> Does this bug happen in a Mozilla install from Mozilla.org with no extensions?
> 

Not sure to understand what do you mean with steps to reproduce but here is what I did at that time:

Download Mozilla 1.7.8 from the website
Execute the install program (.exe)

So far, there was no problems using Mozilla.

Then;

At the first attempt to use stardownloader by exectuting it separately, the program asks whether I would like to integrate it into Mozilla (which means any attempt to download a file will be executed by stardownloader and not from  Mozilla's download manager).

Once that done, the display problem occurs (but not necessarily at the first session).

The last time I downloaded Mozilla 1.7.8. (after desinstalling the previous one) and used stardownloader, I simply refused the integration of stardownloader and everything works normally.

In Mozilla 1.7 (the former version I had), there was not proposal of integration of Stardowloader when executing it for the first time. After a first execution, any attempt to download a file from Mozilla was automatically done trough stardownloader.

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That sounds like a bug in whatever this Stardownloader thing is....  Please report the bug to them -- they're installing an extension that is not behaving well.

Comment 11

[claudio.schinazi]

(In reply to comment #10)
> That sounds like a bug in whatever this Stardownloader thing is....  Please
> report the bug to them -- they're installing an extension that is not behaving
> well.
> 

Indeed, that's perhaps the best thing to do.