686733 - Mac Firefox drops words when displaying English text on a page from Google.com

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

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Attachment: Mac Firefox screen shot -- Alcabes.tiff

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2
Build ID: 20110902133214

Steps to reproduce:

Using Mac Firefox 6.02 (running on Mac OS X version 10.6.8) open the page http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/corporate/company/ and click on the "Our name" tab 


Actual results:

The first paragraph displayed is missing several words ("for", "1", "name", "information", "information" [again] and "it"), as indicated by the "___" in the text below:

Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin named the search engine they built “Google,” a play on the word “googol,” the mathematical term ___ a ___ followed by 100 zeros. The reflects the immense volume of ___ that exists, and the scope of Google’s mission: to organize the world’s ___ and make ___ universally accessible and useful.


Expected results:

The following text should have been displayed:

Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin named the search engine they built “Google,” a play on the word “googol,” the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The name reflects the immense volume of information that exists, and the scope of Google’s mission: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

Notes:
- This text is displayed correctly in Mac Chrome and Mac Safari
- Selecting the text in Firefox and copying it and pasting it elsewhere results in all the text.
- The underlying HTML looks straightforward:

<p>
Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin named the search engine they built “Google,” a play
on the word “googol,” the mathematical term for a <a href=
"http://www.google.com/search?q=%221+followed+by+100+zeroes%22&amp;hl=en">1 followed by
100 zeros</a>. The name reflects the immense volume of information that exists, and the
scope of Google’s mission: to organize the world’s information and make it universally
accessible and useful.
</p>

Comment 1

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Note:
I just created an alternate profile in Firefox and tried accessing http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/corporate/company/ again.  Now the page displays correctly, so it seems that the problem is related to something in my profile.

Comment 2

[Vlad [QA]]

WFM on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110921 Firefox/9.0a1

The text is displayed correctly.

Considering comment1, it's not a Firefox issue.
Setting resolution to Resolved WFM.