I'm just experimenting. I hate the word "blog" and am fascinated with how the net seems to nurture *everyone's* vanity.

There's a very long thread page in Elemental Ideas. When I try to view it in FireFox, the last bits of the last post are cut off and there is no reply box nor final page boilerplate (other than the (c) block, which looks to be outside the table that contains the posts & reply box).

When I view the page in Opera, I see all the text of the last post, and the page bottom I'd expect to see without being signed in.

Has this particular argument found some character or line limit for thread pages in the forum code?


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on Mar 01, 2009

Very old bug (see the bugzilla page), known and neglected by the Firefox devs for more than five years, despite being marked critical.

on Mar 01, 2009

What version of FF are you using, I am using 3.0.6 and have no issues seeing whole page of that thread, logged in or not.

on Mar 01, 2009

I'm on 3.0.6 also, but I can easily repro the truncation on a fresh tab. Maybe you have an extension installed that helps somehow? I only use FF for a couple of sites and have no plug-ins etc.

on Mar 01, 2009

Looking at that link myself that page is fine, but if you see it elsewhere, yes, it is a known bug with firefox. Basically, any block more than 32768px long gets cut.

on Mar 01, 2009

Maybe you have an extension installed that helps somehow? I only use FF for a couple of sites and have no plug-ins etc.

 

Could be Addblock Plus,

Basically, any block more than 32768px long gets cut.
no adds equals shorter block.? Maybe.?

on Mar 01, 2009

32768px long

If pixels are the operative measurement, then I'm probably getting bitten by the zoom feature. But it still seems like an FF bug, if one that's *very* low on the Mozilla priority list.

Edit: Yup. Just tested, and standard zoom shows the page fine. Curse those Mozilla folks and their insufficient love of Opera-style zoom functionality!

on Mar 01, 2009

Yeah, if you're blowing it up that will likely cause threads to reach the threshold which otherwise wouldn't.

on Mar 01, 2009

Well, IE had an error with a Sins page "planetary artilliary". Still, love IE7's zoom here!.

on Mar 01, 2009

Yeah, if you're blowing it up that will likely cause threads to reach the threshold which otherwise wouldn't.

You say "blowing it up" and I say "making the ludicrously tiny default text halfway reasonably-sized," but then I'm a selfish man with aging eyes, a personal agenda, and a tendency to be verbose...

BTW, the last small post from Jonny in that thread made the zoom-whatever problem so bad that the page actually rendered with large blocks of black instead of large, empty swaths of the page background graphics.