Strange Firefox problem

[GaijinPunch]

This seems to only be apparent in Firefox 1.5.01. I'm running 1.0 on my Linux machine, and don't have this problem. I don't have the problem w/ IE either.

My site is almost done, but there are certain pages that display improperly unless you refresh. If you go to the link below, there's an index of items:

http://www.gamengai.com/gm_ix.php?system=playstation

Click around a bit. Eventually (probably in less than 10... maybe even 5) you'll get an item in which the middle portion is completely vertical, as opposed to how it's supposed to look (2 images + back button on the left, and text on the right). If you refresh, it displays properly. I've run a diff on the two pages it produces, and they're the same. Very confused here.

I thought it might be a container size problem, b/c if I block out the two interfacdes on the left, I don't have the issue. I can't figure out where the badness is though.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Well - I'm using Fx 1.5.0.1/Win, and clicked 20 times, but saw no problem.

Given that you can only reproduce it <10% of the time, and I couldn't reproduce it at all, you might have to give up on this one... unless, of course, you can find steps to consistently reproduce the problem.

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[GaijinPunch]

I will look, but I'm pretty sure this happened on another machine. I'll test on my laptop in the morning.

For anyone else looking tonight, I've put a border around the two div's in question. That might shed some light on it. Maybe I'm just cursed.

 

[GaijinPunch]

I have gone w/ a tables solution, and seem to have alleviated the problem, so I will stick w/ this. THanks for having a look.

 

[Vragabond]

I must say I saw no border of which you speak of. I also have not experienced anything out of the usual on the page.

That said, I must say that what you describe seems to be a common problem with table based designs. Tables get sized up after the content is inserted into them and if the connection is slow and content takes time to load, table might look mangled at first. This is then solved by reloading, since the second time the items are cached and the page loads quicker.

 

[GaijinPunch]

Thanks for the tip Vragabond. I assumed it might be something like that, but wasn't sure. The reason you saw no problem is b/c I went ahead and changed the design to strict tables (no CSS at all for that portion) and it seems to have worked.