365400 - Firefox 2.0 for Mac does not render some URL links for some websites

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Luke deGruchy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.1

There are some rare instances in which Firefox 2.0 for Mac will not render some url links on some pages.  Two websites that have exhibited this behaviour are theregister.co.uk and google.com.   Looking at the HTML, it's impossible to identify under what conditions this bug manifests itself, since there's no visible differences in the <a href> tags.    I don't know how to attach a screenshot to this bug report.  Please view the following URL in both Firefox and Safari:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=wmp+plugin+mac&btnG=Search

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=wmp+plugin+mac&btnG=Search  (example URL)

Actual Results:  
The URL links for the first two search results are completely missing, including the underlined link and the text of the link itself.

Expected Results:  
Both links should be visible and enabled.

Comment 1

[Luke deGruchy]

Attachment: Screenshot of site in Firefox with missing links

Screenshot of site in Firefox with missing links

Comment 2

[Luke deGruchy]

Attachment: Screenshot of site in Safari with links rendered correctly.

Screenshot of site in Safari with links rendered correctly.

Comment 3

[Luke deGruchy]

Attachment: Screenshot of page with Firefox on Ubuntu

Screenshot of page with Firefox on Ubuntu

Comment 4

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

Do you have any extensions installed which might be stripping the links?

Comment 5

[Luke deGruchy]

Interesting.

Of these extensions, the only one I could think of that might be causing the problem is the userContent.css.

So I decided to add the userContent.css file to my Ubuntu instance on Parallels.  Sure enough, I was able to replicate this bug.

I need to debug my userContent.css file.   

Closing bug.

Comment 6

[Luke deGruchy]

FYI: 

The problem was resolved by removing this line from my userContent.css:

*[href=microsoft"],

I guess I must be overzealous in trying to block ads  :)