Forum posts & Mozilla Firefox

[xeron]

I can't seem to read forum posts in Mozilla Firefox. It looks like I get part of the HTTP headers and this confuses it. Here is a screengrab:



It only happens on forum posts.

[Blomberg]

Hmm, no problem here with Fire*** 0.8 on win2k  :-?

[Argo]

What OS are you using? Looks like Windows, but what version? Do you have a dialup, broadband or other kind of internet connnection? Do you connect through a proxy? Is your computer's connection through a router?
Have you changed any of Firebirds setting?

Just checking all the angles. I tried and have been using Firebird, along with Opera on XP and have not run into this problem. Please let us know if this continues.

[xeron]

Ugh.. had to use IE to see the replies :-(

What OS are you using?

Its Firefox 0.8 on Windows 2000 SP4.

Do you have a dialup, broadband or other kind of internet connnection?

ADSL

Do you connect through a proxy?

I connect via Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 on NT4 (our work server). The problem only started yesterday afternoon; before that I could read the posts fine in Firefox.

Have you changed any of Firebirds setting?

Nothing significant, and certainly nothing since yesterday.

Just checking all the angles. I tried and have been using Firebird, along with Opera on XP and have not run into this problem. Please let us know if this continues.

It seems to be continuing... I can't view forum posts at all, but images, news items and PMs all come up fine... weird.

[Kent]

I'm doing some research on this and need some help.  I need for you to walk through and give each step you take to view the posts from the time you log into the site or if this happens all the time regardless of logging in or not.  Are you viewing threads in flat or threaded mode?  What links are you going to for this to happen, or can you go to another section of the site and cause this not to happen from the same links?  For example: in latest posts it happens and pulling up the link inside the forum itself doesn't.  I need this amount of detail to track down the problem and fix it.

Oh yeah, posted with firefox 0.8

:pint:

[xeron]

Kent wrote:
Are you viewing threads in flat or threaded mode?

Flat.

What links are you going to for this to happen, or can you go to another section of the site and cause this not to happen from the same links?

Doesn't matter if I follow links from the front page, the latest posts section, the forum section, or if I paste the link in manually.

Oh yeah, posted with firefox 0.8

Well, that doesn't cheer me up at all :-)

[restore2003]

To make your day even brighter.....this was also posted with firefox 0.8  ;-)

[Kent]

After a week of trying to find any problems with Firefox 0.8 I'm about to give up.  I can't reproduce the problem you've documented here.  I even tried using Suse, Knoppix, DedHat, and Mandrake without problems.  A couple things that may/may not help, download the latest updates for your OS and reboot the machine.  Reinstall Firefox after a second reboot if there is any additional software that needed to be finalized after update.  If that doesn't work for ya, try Opera... many of the same features (and then some) that you find in Firefox.

Keep me posted if you find a solution or even if the problem corrects itself.

:pint:

[mikeymike]

Stop everything! :-)

I think I know what's wrong.  Delete your Firefox profile and create a new one.  You might want to save your bookmarks first.

[xeron]

@mikeymike

Hooray! That fixed it!

@Kent

I can't swap to opera; it doesn't support NT authentication with Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0. As far as i'm aware, only IE and Mozilla can do that...

[mikeymike]

@mikeymike
Hooray! That fixed it!

I've seen similar problems before, though usually they're in the shape of getting 404 errors when the files blatantly aren't 404'd.

(argh, I'm nouning!)

What revision of Firefox are you running?  I'm having no probs with the March 2nd build.

[Kent]

xeron wrote:
I can't swap to opera; it doesn't support NT authentication with Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0. As far as i'm aware, only IE and Mozilla can do that...

Understandable.  Though the latest beta might allow you to use MS Proxy Server.  I haven't tried it yet but the next time I'm in the lab I'll give it a shot.

Glad to see this fixed though.

:pint:

[sumner7]

@kent

I like your avatar.  :-D