Firefox 3.0.7 won't render wikipedia.
I am adding a report here because I can't seem to find anyone else who has had this problem. I have googled around quite a bit, but to no avail.
Firefox 3.0.7 on Ubuntu Ibex won't display any wikipedia page. By that I mean, it will connect, download the content, and then all that gets displayed is the 'background' image. But its not really just the background, it has the white box overlay that holds some content normally (I think).
If I navigate away from the page, the whole correct page briefly displays (~1s) before I taken to the new page. If I refresh the page, the whole correct page briefly displays before going back to the background thingy.
I have found two things that can make the problem go away, but they break the internet in other important ways:
1. If I am quick, and lucky I can hit 'Esc' and the page will stop loading, and the content *will* be displayed.
2. If I disable javascript wikipedia works fine.
Obviously javascript is a pretty important part of the web, so disabling it is a poor solution.
Some info:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7)
Gecko/2009030422
Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid)
Firefox/3.0.7
I have tried starting in safe mode, the exact same behaviour results. I have removed my userinfo (mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-backup) to no avail.
If it is related to javascript (which I am not entirely sure about, since many other javascript using pages work fine). Then you may be interested to know that if I right-click->select all then right-click->view selection source, this is the resulting selection:
<div id="globalWrapper">
<div id="column-
<div id="content">
<a name="top" id="top"></a>
<div id="siteNotice"
Also, the error console throws exactly two warnings on each reload:
Warning: Unknown property 'column-count'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://
Line: 37
Warning: Unknown property 'word-wrap'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://
Line: 52
These warnings occasionally appear on other (working) websites. Just surfing the net seems to produce a wealth of these types of warnings.
I am at my wits end. If it were just about any other website it wouldn't be such an issue, but wikipedia is half the point of having an internet connection!
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