Strange Firefox behavior after upgrading

[outletseason]

My site's main page was looking fine and even it's not finished yet(internal links), and it was ok when I tested using different browsers. For several reasons I don't use IE anymore, but after I upgraded to Firefox 1.5.0.2, (1.5.0 was ok), strange things start to happen as it is not showing graphics and layout looks completely scrambled, besides that, and this is what is really strange, the page looks bad when using the full url, http://www.theoutletseason.com, but it is fine when I only use http://theoutletseason.com!!!

I only found this problem when I access the site using XP, it looks ok from a win 98 windows machine ...
I did everything, checked if something was missing, cleaned up the cache, reintall the browser after uninstalling it first, nothing the index page keeps on looking strange. If it was a browser problem it should look the same no matter if I use full dom or restricted url ... so I am really surprised by this behavior.

Sincerely,

[iwebgeek]

Looks fine here and I am using Firefox 1.5.0.2 on XP Professional

[arvana]

Looks fine for me too, also on Firefox 1.5.0.2 / XP.

Must be something to do with your installation -- have you tried making a new profile? You have to shut all Firefox windows and run from a command prompt: "firefox.exe -profilemanager".

If that doesn't work, perhaps it's a cookie or javascript setting, or an ad-blocker. Have you compared the code from your browser to the original?

Arvana
arvanadesign.com

[Jabber_uk]

Fine for me too - I use BOTH IE and Firefox 1.5.02. What Firefox plugins do you have installed?

[dharrison]

Looks Ok here and I am using:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7

On Windows XP Platform.

HTH

[mysticalmaze]

Hey,

Not sure if it should be aligned to the right?

I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.2 Windows 2000 Pro.
Maybe its my resolution of 1280x1024.

Heres a shot of it:

[Highway of Life]

I checked it with Mac Safari on Panter 10.3.7, Mac IE 5.2, Opera 8.52, Mozilla 1.7.10 and Firefox 1.5.0.2, and they all look EXACTLY the same. (Even Opera! *SHOCK SHOCK*)

[Paul Brin]

I suggest you use the free W3C Markup Validator and work at repairing the 51 errors listed for your page.
You could also use the free T.A.W. Validator to review the 52 errors they have listed for your page there;

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...doctype=Inline

http://www.tawdis.net/taw3/online?ur...F&idioma=en-US

[jeffposaka]

Looks fine on my machine. I am using 1.5.0.2 on a Windows Server 2003 box.

Did you intend to have the footer extend across the whole page? If so, its working.

If I was responsible for the site, I would clean up and validate the code and move all the css styles to an external file. It might help you avoid problems with future browser upgrades.

Good luck.

[colr]

Are you using a proxy?

If so, check that your proxy settings are correct in your browser. I use a proxy, and sometimes when there is a FF update, it removes the old proxy settings I had. In my case this usually causes missing images and styles.

colr__

[dburdon]

Outletseason,

did you install all the extensions and check the compatibility of 1.5.02 with all them? Mine update took a while to do this. But everything works fine with XP.

[mavahntooth]

Mine always giving a error in google analytics and some websites that have flash. :(

[outletseason]

Hi to all,

Thank you for valuable advise and tips, I finally found the answer, after many tests, and headaches ... I know the site has errors, because it's a work in progress. The problem was apparently some misconfiguration with Firefox profile, I created a new one, and the site went back to look like what it used to be. With the new profile in place everything looks fine but now I have to figure either a way to fix the default profile, or import all my configuration and plug ins, into the fresh one, and reinstall plug ins, one by one, and see what happens.

Because of the overwhelming response I had, I cannot thank you all individually but thanks again, to all your aid was invaluable.
I had this problem for many days, and couldn't figure it out. Now I will look for a way to either fix the old profile or quickly import my settings, without importing the problem setting.

Sincerely,

[Tim]

Of the four browsers: Firefox, Opera, Netscape and IE, I prefer the FF rendering of your site. I don't like the righthand 'bleed' of the others at greater than 800px width.

However, Firefox displays a truncated bottom nav strip and a foreshortened footer strip. You might fix this by correcting the missing XHTML trailing slashes ( />) on images.

To avoid the 'bleeding' right background you could either introduce a containing, single cell table (width 760px, centred) within which everything else nests or preferably a tableless container <div>, set to 760px width and centred with CSS (auto left and right).

If you want to clean up those Flash embedding errors check out the Flash Satay method. It works.

Do remember that whilst Flash may impress some visitors, it is entirely search engine un-friendly.

I hope that makes sense and helps.

Good luck.