http://mars.telascience.org/

Jugalator · Post by **Jugalator** » January 8th, 2004, 12:39 am

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory are having some problems with this site on the Firebird browser. (note: I'm in no way affiliated with them, just bringing word from irc.freenode.net, channel #maestro) Actually it seems to happen only on some installs of Firebird. The problem is that for some people, you only get an empty page.

The site is about the recent Mars Exploration Rover mission, where anyone can download a public version of the actual mission activity planner. They regularly upload new data updates to the site as the MERs explore more of the landing site, which users can later download to drive around on a virtual martian surface.

Hopefully, someone here will be able to figure out from their HTML+CSS code where the problem lies. One person from JPL thought it could be something with the CSS used.

I'm one of those getting a blank page and is using:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040102 Firebird/0.7+

Maybe it is a problem only showing up in recent nightly builds?

johnleemk · Post by **johnleemk** » January 8th, 2004, 12:55 am

WFM. Build-id in sig. I see you're using a branch build, though, so...

zachspoelstra · Post by **zachspoelstra** » January 8th, 2004, 2:01 am

alrighty.. i'm getting the blank page problem. However, a quick peek with the DOM Inspector reveals the culprit. the problem is the overflow: hidden; style in the body. I dont know if this is a Firebird/Gecko problem or a CSS problem.

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body {
    background: #343434;
    overflow: hidden;
    font: 69% "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Lucida, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040102 Firebird/0.7+

Jugalator · Post by **Jugalator** » January 8th, 2004, 3:44 am

So that CSS property behaves differently in the trunk and branch builds? Hmm... ok

TheOneKEA · Post by **TheOneKEA** » January 8th, 2004, 4:12 am

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225811

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040107 Firebird/0.7+ (daihard; XFT+GTK2; optimized for P4/SSE-2) contains the fix listed in that bug, and the page renders correctly. However, the 0.8 branch does not have the fix and will thus break. Try reviving the bug.

johnleemk · Post by **johnleemk** » January 8th, 2004, 5:41 am

Hm...it is still blocking 1.6 final.

TheOneKEA · Post by **TheOneKEA** » January 8th, 2004, 8:07 am

Then revive it and get a dev to add a blocking0.8 field to it as well - it apparently affects Seamonkey.B and Firebird.