397049 - after 2.0.0.7 update certain text renders red

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ceci Land]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7

after the update to 2.0.0.7 certain types of text will render as red and there's no way to change it via the tools menu.  The text colors are still set correctly.  This error has only happened on one of my computers that upgraded to 2.0.0.7.  The other one continues to render text color appropriately.

An example happens when I search on Google.  The actual address of the hyperlinked result is red. (at the bottom of each individual result...and it's *not* a hot link...it's simply the address you can copy/paste if you desire).  This also happens on a website I use for work that uses a script to serve up the pages.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Is there some way to repair a corrupted update?  Can I repair just the mozilla rendering engine?  I'm not a tech person or a geek, so I don't automatically know these things.  Otherwise, it appears I'll have to uninstall and reinstall the whole program.

Comment 1

[Ceci Land]

Attachment: screen grab

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Does it also happen if you start Firefox with a new profile?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager#How_do_I_create_a_new_profile.3F

Comment 3

[Gérard Talbot]

Ceci,

I checked quickly the page
http://connexion.oclc.org/
and I see they use a lot of stylesheets, inline style and many scripts. The code is usually IE-specific and pretty deprecated. The thing is that Firefox may be parsing correctly some code and triggering error correction mechanisms on parsing errors. We don't know. Without the ability to examine and to investigate all relevant code (or just sufficient chunks of involved/relevant code), we can't say. I would need to be a registered member to test that database query webpage.

I know though that oclc.org main entrance webpage has *_many_* CSS problems:

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://connexion.oclc.org/

Not just errors but also anti-accessibility, counter-usability coding practices.

Is the problem only occuring on a particular web site or on several web sites? You seem to be suggesting that this red color text mania/behavior is happening on several different, distinct web sites?

Can you try the web sites which render red text in safe mode?
Start/Programs/Mozilla Firefox/Mozilla Firefox (safe mode)

Regards, Gérard

Comment 4

[Ceci Land]

Sorry, I just now got your comments.  I didn't get around to trying a new profile.  <smacks forehead>  Other pages also showed red text, but it was not ubiquitous.  Out of desperation, I opted to conclude that something went amiss when firefox auto updated.  My other computer had no such issue, nor did anyone else here at work.  So I decided that it must not be a bug...instead, it must just be something that got corrupted on updating.  So I downloaded the latest version and re-installed over the previous one and it solved the problem.  

Thanks for responding so quickly.  

Comment 5

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

changing to works for me - "fixed" mean in bugzilla a code change (like a patch) in Firefox