The layout on slashdot is broken. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge firefox 1.0.1 2. visit slashdot.org 3. Actual Results: broken layout Expected Results: not a broken layout
Created attachment 52445 [details] slashdot.org broken layout
Created attachment 52446 [details] slashdot.org broken layout 2
Either slashdot had problems yesterday or it's a problem with th old cache data. Saw the same, but it's all fine here now.
Hmm, here it is still broken, but only sometimes. If i hit the reload button three to six times, then the layout is correct.
I believe this is either a firefox or slashdot bug. The same thing occurs in firefox 1.0 and 1.0.1 in Windows. Reloading the page a few times seems to fix the problem.
Me too.... but I have more information. This just started happening for me today, right after I updated glib and gtk+. I was at 2.4.9-r1 I think and now I'm at 2.6.2. So maybe there is an HTML rendering widget in gtk+ that is screwed up. This happens on the slashdot page where the advertisement in on the right. The page with the ad banner at top renders correctly which is why refreshing eventually display correctly. I'm going to try and downgrade gtk+ and see what happens.
I noticed there was a gtk+ 2.6.4 that was ~x86 so I unmasked it for the heck of it and now firefox is working properly. Even my gnome logout button is working again, so I guess gtk+-2.6.2 has some problems.
Same thing happens to me. slashdot frontpage is "empty" of stories. The side panels look OK, logo etc appear, but no list of stories. emerge -s firefox-bin Searching... [ Results for search key : firefox-bin ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * net-www/mozilla-firefox-bin Latest version available: 1.0.1 Latest version installed: 1.0.1 Size of downloaded files: 8,039 kB Homepage: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox Description: The Mozilla Firefox Web Browser License: MPL-1.1 NPL-1.1 $ emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 9 2005, 13:25:02)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.9.4, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.21-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi adns aim alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux doc dvb dvd dvdr emacs emboss encode esd ethereal exif f77 fam flac flash font-server foomatic foomaticdb fortran freetds gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gps gstreamer gtkgtk2 guile hardenedphp icq imagemagick imlib ipv6 jabber jack java joystick jpeg junit kde lesstif libg++ libwww lirc mad maildir mikmod mmap mmx mng motif mozilla mpeg msn mysql ncurses nls offensive ofx oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam pcmcia pcre pda pdflib perl php pic png pnp posix postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline recode samba scanner sdl sndfile speex spell spl ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb wavelan wmf xface xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xv xvid yahoo zeo zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
(Sorry for my poor english, as I am a poor foreigner) It is a well known problem (hey, you surely aren't the only ones using Firefox and visiting /. :p): see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217527 I also noticed that the rendering bug went worse since ~1 week, but I can't confirm if GTK+ is guilty... To sum it up, a patch has been created and merged in Mozilla 1.8. For Firefox, we have to wait FF 1.1 which will have the correct fix. Seeing that the patch on mozilla's bugzilla is apparently correct and that FF 1.1 won't be released before June, I wish we could have a mozilla-firefox-1.0.1-r1 containing the fix, as /. is a _critical_ website for a lot of us :)
Reopen if this still an issue with up-to-date ebuild versions.
