Firefox 5 wrongly displays some pages too tall with large blank area between top text and bottom text

[Stanley Sokolow]

Sometimes Firefox 5 renders pages as extremely tall pages with large whitespace gap between top content and the rest of the content, which in contrast Chromium displays correctly. Here's an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz,_California . See screenshot submitted below, showing Chromium on left and Firefox 5 on right displaying same URL top of page. Scrolling down the Firefox page will eventually reach the missing content, but only after a very large amount of blank space. Firefox version is up to date: 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2 .

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic-pae 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jul 19 07:07:22 2011
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
 flashplugin-installer N/A
 adobe-flashplugin 10.3.181.34-0natty1
 icedtea-plugin N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[William Ranvaud (wiranvaud)]

This bug might be related to the previous bug reported for FF3 Bug #482794
I confirm this bug happened to me too clicking on the given link and also randomly on other pages though it's not consistent, it doesn't happen every time.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Stanley,

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu and Firefox since that time.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported? Please let us know if you do.

If we do not hear from you the bug report will close itself in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for firefox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]