Pages that work in IE but not Firefox - what's missing?

[norman]

On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 13:14 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> I'm looking for accomodation and other information in France and keep
> hitting sites which don't work in Fierfox.  For example:-
> 
>     http://www.ville-castres.fr/_tourisme_site//index.php
> 
> The page comes up but the menu on the left and a picture are blank,
> not having the menu makes it rather difficult to use!  In IE (I run
> XP in VirtualBox) the site appears OK complete with picture and menu.
> 
> I have Flash installed in Firefox so is there something else missing
> or is there something wrong with my Flash installation or is it
> something else entirely?
> 
> Oh, I'm running Forefox 3.0.6 on xubuntu 8.10.

Just tried the URL and it loaded with no problem. I am running Firefox
3.0.6 on Ubuntu 8.10.

Norman