573047 - Overlapping page elements displayed

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[John T]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a6pre) Gecko/20100616 SeaMonkey/2.1a2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a6pre) Gecko/20100616 SeaMonkey/2.1a2pre

When I try to load the indicated web page, the same elements are displayed 2 or 3 times at different distances from the top of the page. This makes the page content and links effectively unusable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter the url in the url field or click on a link to load the page.
2. Observe the incorrect display.
3.
Actual Results:  
Page elements overlay other page elements at 2 or 3 places down the page, making the page unreadable and the links difficult to click.

Expected Results:  
The page should be displayed correctly so the information and links are shown as the authors intended, insofar as the page conforms to standards.

I considered whether the problem might be an incorrect page, but I'm not able to determine that and decided to report this display problem as a Seamonkey bug. If it's an uncompliant page, please bring this to the attention of the site web staff.

Comment 1

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a6pre) Gecko/20100618 Lightning/1.1a1pre SeaMonkey/2.1a2pre - Build ID: 20100618022104

I cannot reproduce the problem. John, can you test again with today's nightly? And if you get it again, then in Safe Mode (i.e. by using the -safe-mode switch on the SeaMonkey command-line)?

Comment 2

[John T]

Attachment: bzipped screenshot of top of problem page

Comment 3

[John T]

I got the 6-19 Linux x86 build and tried regular and safe-mode as asked, and have the same problem. Also attached a screenshot. The blue bar below the header repeats a number of times, maybe 9-12. The bottom of the page is ok. Is there some code that can do multiple reformats of the page that is doing the wrong thing here? Or do I have any incompatible libraries? Or is there an assumption of higher screen resolution than I have? I'm using 1024x768.

Comment 4

[John T]

Here are the console msgs I got starting in safe mode in the KDE 3 desktop. Are they normal?
[dilbert@localhost ~]$ /usr/local/alpha/seamonkey/./seamonkey --safe-mode

** (seamonkey-bin:11398): WARNING **: Wrong permissions for /home/dilbert/tmp/orbit-dilbert

kparts: WARNING: StatusBarExtension::removeStatusBarItem. Widget not found : [KPushButton pointer (0x8175818) to widget CancelButton, geometry=100x30+0+0]
kparts: WARNING: StatusBarExtension::removeStatusBarItem. Widget not found : [KPushButton pointer (0x8175818) to widget CancelButton, geometry=100x30+0+0]
QGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key
QGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key
ark: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Unknown protocol ''.
ark:
QGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key
ark: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Unknown protocol ''.
ark:

Comment 5

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Here are the console msgs I got starting in safe mode in the KDE 3 desktop. Are
> they normal?
> [dilbert@localhost ~]$ /usr/local/alpha/seamonkey/./seamonkey --safe-mode

This is not safe mode. To start SeaMonkey in safe mode, use (assuming that your path is correct)

    /usr/local/alpha/seamonkey/seamonkey -safe-mode

with one dash, not two, before "safe-mode". This will run SeaMonkey with the default theme and with all extensions temporarily disabled. Obviously, in what you thought was Safe Mode, you still had some extensions enabled.

Comment 6

[John T]

Ran that with the single dash. Still got the defective display. There were about 60 blue bars. I would guess that whatever caused the problem did about 60 iterations. Is the reformatting of a page called a reflow? What's the maximum number of reflows?

Comment 7

[lenochod]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100504 SeaMonkey/2.0.5
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a6pre) Gecko/20100622 SeaMonkey/2.1a2pre

Site display correctly.

You download today version, please.

You Clear Cache. ( Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Cache -> button Clear Cache )

Comment 8

[Philip Chee]

No reply to comment 7 in ten months. Closing. Please reopen if you have further information.