On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:53 PM, David L <idht4n(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 14:30 -0800, David L wrote:
> > I have two f8 systems that have firefox problems on
> > the same web site (
http://www.linuxtoday.com/ ).
> > Instead of the normal view, there are a bunch of
> > small circles scattered down the middle of the page.
> > Some of the circles are filled, some aren't. An
> > example of what it looks like is at:
> >
http://idht4n.googlepages.com/home
> >
> > Any ideas about what causes this?
>
> Looks like your browser is having some sort of problem parsing their
> website styling. Do you use a custom style sheet, that overrides a
> site's styling, on your browser?
Not intentionally. I know nothing about style sheets. I did recently try
to run firefox 3 beta... perhaps that or something else I did corrupted
my firefox environment. I moved my .mozilla directory out of the way
and it fixed the problem.
Oops... I spoke too soon. I still have the problem, but it doesn't
always happen on the main page. Even after removing
my .mozilla directory, I had the problem on a page lower down
in the tree. I got fooled because it didn't happen on the highest
level page like it had before. Are all of firefox's personal
customizations stored in ~/.mozilla or are there other files I
should try blowing away?
I tried to reproduce the problem on my home PC by installing
firefox 3 beta 3 and could not. Both PCs that are having the
problem shard a common NFS home directory. Their hardware
is different. I assume that something is lurking in my home directory
but outside of the .mozilla directory that is causing the problem.
Any ideas what that could be?
Thanks,
David