[LINK] firefox 4.0 problem - lost display

Sun Apr 17 12:25:57 AEST 2011

On 2011/Apr/16, at 4:47 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> I am running into a strange problem with FF4.0 today. It loads fine, 
> but I'm not getting any layout instructions so the pages are just 
> text and no graphics. I asked Brenda about it and she says it appears 
> to be a CSS problem.

This happens to me occasionally.  I believe it is either firefox itself or one of my security extensions not allowing redirection/refresh.  

It happened today for me on this site:

http://www.gsa.gov/

When I looked at the code this was the page:

<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=/portal">
<title> GSA Home </title>
</head>

For some reason I never got a notification that there was a redirect.  I just opened the page again and it worked fine, then a second time and it didn't.  Bad.

> I loaded FF in safe mode (no add-ons) and the problem disappears. I 
> wondered if any Linkers found that a recent addon or extension update 
> is what has caused this problem and if you know which popular one it 
> might be (without me having to go through one by one). I know it's 
> not no-script because I disabled that and the problem still existed.
> 
> thanks for any advice. Feel free to email off-list - 
> <mailto:jwhit at janwhitaker.com>jwhit at janwhitaker.com
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
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