331736 - boxes normally cover text - it doesn't wrap - the article is hidden under boxes

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul Sharp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051010 Firefox/1.0.7 (Ubuntu package 1.0.7)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051010 Firefox/1.0.7 (Ubuntu package 1.0.7)

Normally when visiting a page like this from MSN, whether it be in Windows XP, Ubuntu, or Fedora, the text of the article is not wrapped around the link boxes and ads that are on the page.  Mozilla browser does the same thing.  I don't want to use IE, but it works.  Konquerer works as well, but I prefer Firefox.  This has done this with any version of Firefox I've used.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox
2. Click a news story on MSN.com home page
3. When the page opens, the text of the article is hidden under the ads and boxes.

Actual Results:  
What was described above - the text is under the boxes instead of wrapped around them

Expected Results:  
Text wrapped around the boxes, formatted, as other browsers do.

This happens about 99.9% of the time - I very seldom get the page to display correctly.  I haven't changed any themes, still using the default on install.

Comment 1

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Comment 2

[Paul Sharp]

I have occasionally had it fit the page properly by refreshing it several times. This also happens on more than one computer running any of the above mention operating systems.

Comment 3

[Mark Romero]

*** Bug 332783 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Mark Romero]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060404 Firefox/1.6a1

WFM

Comment 5

[joe131]

I'm using the latest Mozilla 1.5.0.4, on Windows XP Pro, and when I visit just about any article
on the MSNBC site, the text is covered by the "CNBC Video", "Most Popular", etc
boxes on the right, but if I hit Refresh, everything is rendered properly,
and the text isn't covered-up!

If that's the case, why can't it render it properly the first time??

Comment 6

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 7

[Paul Sharp]

I haven't noticed this lately a majority of the time. It will occasionally wrap wrong, but the newest version appears to have it "mostly" fixed.