Firefox 18.0.2 messing up some web pages

[Colin Law]

On 8 March 2013 17:49, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 03/08/2013 10:49 AM, JD wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 8 March 2013 16:11, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have browsed many web pages that FF does no display properly.
>>>>> Text of one line gets superimposed on another.
>>>>>
>>>>> I do not know if it's my options settings causing this.
>>>>> the add-ons or just firefox.
>>>>>
>>>>> Try this link
>>>>>
>>>>> http://georgegrantsoundhealing.com/GGSH/HOME.html
>>>>>
>>>>> The last line is two lines superimposed.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Looks fine here. Identical in Chrome and Firefox.
>>>>
>>>> Well, when I say "fine", the actual /contents/ of the page make me
>>>> sputter in rage at the sheer charlatanry, but that is your problem not
>>>> mine.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanx for the feedback,
>>> However, I was not seeking any judgements or opinions of the content.
>>> I was just using it as an example for the problem I was describing.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> FWIW I am on FF 19.0 and Ubuntu 12.04 and I see what you are seeing. I've
>> been seeing this occasionally for some time now.  I often see it happen on
>> eTrade.
>>
>> Regards,  Jim
>
>
> I have been seeing it on several web sites, but not on most.
> I did run FF in safe mode - still same problem.
> I am beginning to wonder that the some web sites are developed
> using Microsoft's proprietary libraries which have non-standard
> encodings???

Often when pages display differently in different browsers or versions
it is due to invalid html, but I was surprised to find that that page
validates fully at http://validator.w3.org/

Colin