Comments on: Firefox test page

By: John Lascurettes

John Lascurettes — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:51:06 +0000

So, in the end, if you read through all the comments on the original bug (the one that the above bug links to), they’ve fixed it, but only in Gecko trunk 1.92 and that won’t land until Firefox 3.6.x. So current FF 3.0 and 3.5 users will never see a fix for this.

By: John Lascurettes

John Lascurettes — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:30:59 +0000

Found it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503337

By: John Lascurettes

John Lascurettes — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:24:25 +0000

Has this been filed over at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ ? I couldn’t find one.

By: Bug 1650 – Display problem for long entry in Drifting

Bug 1650 – Display problem for long entry in Drifting — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:25:56 +0000

[...] Google search for "firefox windows long page cutoff" turns up http://www.zeldman.com/2009/07/09/firefox-test-page/ which provides evidence that this is a bug in Firefox for Windows. There may be information [...]

By: Lyndon

Lyndon — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:10:03 +0000

excited to used and convert into html5… i have to used this starting now..

By: Michel

Michel — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:26:37 +0000

@Norman:

WinXP? WinVista? Win7? :-)

May we assume that 3.5 had the bug but it was already fixed in 3.5.1?

By: Norman Wingrove

Norman Wingrove — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:43:50 +0000

Bottom of page did not show in Firefox 3.5. All OK in 3.5.1

By: 일모리와 웹표준

일모리와 웹표준 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:37:47 +0000

[...] Firefox test page » Jeffrey Zeldman 5 days ago [...]

By: Nick Poulos

Nick Poulos — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:04:08 +0000

For me, the test page displays all comments, including the comment form.

I’m using Firefox 3.5 on Windows 7 RC x64.

By: Travis

Travis — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:42:04 +0000

Cut off during 44050.

Firefox 3.5 on Vista 64-bit.

By: William King

William King — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:48:41 +0000

This isn’t specifically about the bug in question, but I have a problem with Firefox 3.5 that I have discovered. I am hoping someone knows what the deal is. For whatever reason, regardless of what fonts families, font sizes, etc. I choose in the CSS, Firefox 3.5 refuses to display it. It has messed up the typography of so many web sites. Instead it displays Times New Roman consistently. Obviously I could go into the options and change this to my desired font, but that will not help the user when viewing the page. Any ideas?

By: jymmyr

jymmyr — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:36:30 +0000

The test page breaks near comment 44050 with Fx 3.5 (Shiretoko) running on Ubuntu 9.04 x86_64. When I scroll down from the top of the page I see something like this. However, scrolling up from below the offending area shows no visible anomalies. In my case the footer looks fine, but even though links there and in the comments can be clicked, the text below the offending area cannot be highlighted with the mouse. I'm very scared.

By: effika

effika — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:13:53 +0000

It’s broken in SeaMonkey 2.0a3 (build ID: 20090223135443) and 1.1.17 on Windows XP sp3, too. Not that anybody USES SeaMonkey (there’s like 20 of us), but maybe this will help point out that it’s endemic to the engine and not just Firefox.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:02:04 +0000

Looks great in Ubuntu 9.04/FF3

By: Michael Kozakewich

Michael Kozakewich — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:14:55 +0000

People have mentioned in a couple comments that it’s cut off after a certain number of pixels, and I’m sure you’re sizing some things in pixels. If you set the dimensions in ems, will it turn into 32767 em instead of 32767 px?

Maybe you (by which I mean anyone reading this page) could do tests with various elements exceeding 32767 pixels, and set to the offending overflow value.

Hey, I know a great fix! 7pt pixel font, with lines of text that stretch across the entire screen! Set the leading to a small number, and there you go: You can fit as much text as you can imagine, without ever reaching the pixel limit!