[Bug 173190] Re: firefox does not render some pages some of the time

[Tom Anthony]

I am experiencing this exact same problem right now.

Pages appear to arrive, but the contents of whatever is in that window
don't change. The address bar and title bar do update though, and I
cannot get contextual menus. View source shows the correct source code
for the page I should be seeing.

Launching with -P from the terminal didn't help the problem.

Some pages that don't appear to work:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrality
http://www.seio.es/test/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/
http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/

Whereas, Google Mail, Google Calendar, Google searches, bbc.co.uk
homepage, this site and various others are all working.

The behaviour is erratic. I just went to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat

in a page that already had some content. It failed to render, as above.
I then clicked the "random link" link (which was there from the
wikipedia page I had there prior to trying the Goat page. I got taken to
this URL:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_Route_260

It also failed to render, but the Goat page appeared. I clicked another
link, which worked, then back which showed the Maryland Route 260 page.

Whereas some other pages, no amount of link clicking and going back, or
refreshing or trying a new tab can seem to make them appear.

Also if another note that may help. I ran a search for Rhino in Google,
and tried to go to:

http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/

Which failed, so I then clicked the top link (which was still visible as
the Mozilla page never appeared) for Rhino.com, which did work. Clicking
back changed the URL to the Mozilla URL, but the page stayed as the
Rhino.com. Clicking back again took me back to the Google results which
appeared. Clicking forward change the title/URL to the Mozilla page,
which still doesn't appear.

I have no clue what is going on. I am running Ubuntu 7.10 and FF
2.0.0.8.

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firefox does not render some pages some of the time
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