Help! Firefox 2.0.0.8 has broken my website!

bigred · 19 Oct 2007 at 20:56

Hey,

I maintain a local student website and from today I've had problems with the layout in Firefox! I can only assume that it is the Firefox 2.0.0.8 update which it automatically downloaded and installed today that has caused these problems to arise.

Certain pages, with very little content do not display correctly, eg. http://durham21.co.uk/event.asp?eventID=2537 or http://durham21.co.uk/archive.asp

Longer pages work fine as they push the content down. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks,
Alex

tolien · 19 Oct 2007 at 21:26

Running Adblock by any chance?

bigred · 19 Oct 2007 at 21:48

I am indeed running adblock, and I know that has an issue with some of the ad's on the left hand side - however I think this is a different problem.

tolien · 19 Oct 2007 at 22:13

Hm yeah - it rendered fine in a Trunk nightly when you disabled AB+...

Fx2.0.0.8 is throwing these errors:

Warning: Unknown property 'text-size'. Declaration dropped.
Source file: http://durham21.co.uk/d21.css
Line: 567
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Warning: Unknown property 'filter'. Declaration dropped.
Source file: http://durham21.co.uk/d21.css
Line: 692
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Warning: Unknown property 'filter'. Declaration dropped.
Source file: http://durham21.co.uk/d21.css
Line: 693
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Warning: Unknown property 'background-x-position'. Declaration dropped.
Source file: http://durham21.co.uk/d21.css
Line: 736
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Warning: Unknown property 'background-y-position'. Declaration dropped.
Source file: http://durham21.co.uk/d21.css
Line: 737
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Warning: Expected declaration but found ')'. Skipped to next declaration.
Source file: http://durham21.co.uk/d21.css
Line: 948
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Warning: Unexpected end of file while searching for closing } of declaration block.
Source file: http://durham21.co.uk/d21.css
Line: 957
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Error: a has no properties
Source file: http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/90/maps2.api/main.js
Line: 36

Edit: But so does 2.0.0.7

It's a semi-known issue (in the sense that someone's mentioned it, but AFAIK there isn't a bug for it).

SiriusB · 19 Oct 2007 at 22:45

Add

Code:

min-height: 500px;

to content in the CSS obviously adjusting the value as necessary.

tolien · 19 Oct 2007 at 23:27

There's a bug for it
#400406 [Core:Layout]-Layout badly broken in 2.0.0.8, CSS issue with floats or negative margins or display property... [All]

Haircut · 20 Oct 2007 at 01:14

If it's worth my input, I'm still running Firefox 2.0.0.7 as I haven't restarted it yet.
It looks broken to me in that build, menus running all over the main content.

tolien · 20 Oct 2007 at 01:23

It's fine for me - so long as I'm not running Adblock.

SiriusB · 20 Oct 2007 at 01:24

min-height should fix it for now.

bigred · 20 Oct 2007 at 10:19

Thanks for your help

I'll give that a go

SaBBz · 26 Oct 2007 at 08:52

I'm having basically the same problem but with OcUK. I can't see the OCUK banner, any of the 'new thread' buttons etc, or any of the buttons at the top of the message box for changing text colour etc. I've uninstalled adblock and it's still blocked. I've tried reinstalling firefox and that hasn't worked. I'm not sure what else to try. Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Thanks.

tolien · 26 Oct 2007 at 16:40

Try clearing the cache. Uninstalling Firefox is total waste of time because it won't touch your profile (if it did, you'd then be complaining that your bookmarks had "disappeared") and that's where the majority of these problems originate.