Page rendering improperly

[Ed Nisley]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

Firefox does not render the article pages at:
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/

The attached screenshot shows one such page, reached by clicking the main link in the center column. Any page on the site will show the problem; it's not just this one article.

Note the huge blank area to the left, which pushes the text far to the right. The text does not wrap correctly at the right edge of the center column. It's not clear what should be in that area, if anything.

I have Adblock Plus installed, but disabled on the entire site. I cleared the browser cache, which has no effect on the problem. I allowed popups, which did not change anything (other than deluge me with pop-up ads, of course).

To be fair, both Konqueror and Opera have trouble rendering this site, but ... I'm sure IE renders it properly.

Thanks...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 26 10:40:14 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (xfce4-cpugraph-plugin:1999): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_container_set_border_width: assertion `GTK_IS_CONTAINER (container)' failed
 (firefox:2004): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2024): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (xfce4-terminal:2037): Terminal-WARNING **: Unable to load terminal preferences.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Is this still occurring on Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot"?

[Ed Nisley (ed-08-nisley)]

After nigh onto two years, you probably won't be surprised to discover that Firefox 7.0.1 handles the PoJo site much better than 3.5. I can't say anything about Konqueror, having given up on KDE following the 4.0 debacle, and now use Chromium rather than Opera as an "alternate" browser.

So, yeah, you can close this one out...