301472 - Page elements are not positioned correctly on first draw - site looks OK after refreshing or resizing the window

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Mares]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6

The pages http://www.rarewares.org (valid XHTML 1.1) and http://www.plextor.be
(not valid HTML) often look distorted when they are loaded the first time. After
doing a plain refresh or resizing the window, everything looks the way it should.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Simply load the page.
Actual Results:  
Elements like tables, DIVs, images, etc. are not in their correct position.

Expected Results:  
Display the website correctly.

Comment 1

[Sebastian Mares]

Attachment: Demonstration of the bug with http://www.plextor.be

Comment 2

[Sebastian Mares]

Attachment: Demonstration of the bug with http://www.rarewares.org

Have a look at the image above "Others" in the upper right corner.

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Can you reproduce this with current trunk build?
http://ftp.scarlet.be/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 4

[Sebastian Mares]

I will check that ASAP.

Comment 5

[Sebastian Mares]

Tested on a mate's PC and the nightly build shows the same behavior.

Comment 6

[Gabriel Sjoberg]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908
Firefox/1.4 ID:2005090806

Please recheck this bug against a recent nightly build[1] to verify that the
behavior still exists and post the results here.

Also, please supply a testcase to help others verify this behavior.

Thanks.

[1] ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8/

Comment 7

[Daniel.S]

This bug seems to be fixed since Gecko 1.8. Fx2, 3 and trunk don't show any distorted view.