Firefox occasionally not rendering nodes correctly

I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem. I noticed this in one of my nodes here,and in other nodes, but not all the time. For some reason Firefox doesn't wrap text as it should and the nodelets aren't visible. The only way to see the right hand column is to scroll over. It's almost like the html is written for w width over 2000 pixels or something.

Any Firefox users have any idea why this might be happening? Like I said, it's not consistent, so I'm really stumped.

Useless trivia: In the 2004 Las Vegas phone book there are approximately 28 pages of ads for massage, but almost 200 for lawyers.

20050130 Edit by ysth: change <a> tag to domain-agnostic link

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Re: Firefox occasionally not rendering nodes correctly by tye (Sage) on Jan 30, 2005 at 03:21 UTC
See Re^2: Monastery Gates page is too wide (causes). Get a browser that supports the standard soft hyphen or turn off "auto code wrap" in user settings. In the case of soft hyphen, it appears that after months (years?) only Opera has finally joined IE as being the only standard-complient browsers, despite people telling me otherwise several times (and I still believed these false reports when I wrote that node). Go figure. - tye	[reply]
Re: Firefox occasionally not rendering nodes correctly by yacoubean (Scribe) on Jan 30, 2005 at 04:33 UTC
I too have this problem. If this soft hyphen stuff is widely used on the web, maybe someone should submit a bug to mozilla's bugzilla. -------------- My home on the web: http://www.techfeed.net/	[reply]
Re^2: Firefox occasionally not rendering nodes correctly by converter (Priest) on Jan 30, 2005 at 22:08 UTC
Someone already has, see bug #9101. The bug was submitted on 1999-06-30 16:59 PST and is still flagged as "New". converter	[reply]
Re^3: Firefox occasionally not rendering nodes correctly by legato (Monk) on Feb 02, 2005 at 01:00 UTC
this comment is related to that 'bug'. I fact-checked, and sure enough: the HTML standard only dictates how breaks on soft hyphens should be displayed, not whether the agent must break on them. Anima Legato `.oO all things connect through the motion of the mind`	[reply]
Re^3: Firefox occasionally not rendering nodes correctly by buckaduck (Chaplain) on Feb 08, 2005 at 23:17 UTC
Maybe I don't understand the problem, but I'm using Firefox 1.0 on Windows XP and I don't see any problems. The code wrap seems to be working correctly, at least on the node specified in the original post. I've tried it using the default of 70 characters, and also with a code wrap at 85 characters. It worked correctly each time. buckaduck	[reply]
Re^3: Firefox occasionally not rendering nodes correctly by wazoox (Prior) on Jan 31, 2005 at 12:06 UTC
Works fine for me. May you be using the wrong OS? :)	[reply]
Re: Firefox occasionally not rendering nodes correctly by Tanktalus (Canon) on Jan 30, 2005 at 01:42 UTC
Actually, I find that Firefox is not breaking lines the way that some others do ... and the problem isn't the node you pointed out, but one of the replies, Re^2: Matching data against non-consecutive range. Actually, I had asked for an older node to be split via the consider option, and castaway sent me a note saying that it was split for her ... I guess it's not just me.	[reply]
Re^2: Firefox occasionally not rendering nodes correctly by Popcorn Dave (Abbot) on Jan 30, 2005 at 01:48 UTC
That's sort of the problem I'm facing with Firefox. You're never quite sure which node is the culprit. Not that I'd trade back to IE. :) I installed Firefox on my parent's laptop and they're saying that it's faster than IE even on dial-up so something is going right. Now if it would just break lines where it's supposed to... Useless trivia: In the 2004 Las Vegas phone book there are approximately 28 pages of ads for massage, but almost 200 for lawyers.	[reply]