While running the 1999113012 Nightly Build of the Mozilla browser under Windows 98 SE (developers release) I visited my homepage and found that Mozilla is dropping one of the characters at the top of my page, but it does so under these circumstances only. First I run Mozilla, and resize that object on the left (forgive me I don't know what it's called) so that it can get as small as it can before the vertical line disappears. Then I visited my URL and the top of my page NORMALLY reads: Welcome To The Home Of Richard V. Wielgosz Except Mozilla drops the 'e' in my last name and only displays my name as "Wilgosz". However, if I start Mozilla, and do not resize that object on the left, and hit my page, my name displays properly in all it's Polish strangeness.

I think you're referring to the sidebar when you say "resize that object on the left". I did what you describe, but I can't reproduce the problem. When you get it to display incorrectly, does resizing the window then fix the problem?

I was able to reproduce the bug again today (after rebooting due to a power failure). And no, resizing the window did not cause it to display correctly. I'll attempt to describe the bug in more detail. When I run a browser (any browser) I don't run them at full screen on my 1024x768 desktop. I size the browser so that I get a browser that is 800 pixels wide, since most sites seem to design for that size. So what I have to do to reproduce the bug is: Run Mozilla (which is still set to mozilla.org for it's home), drag the vertical bar of the sidebar making the layout region of the actual browser area larger. I drag the vertical bar to the left reducing the size of the sidebar until it gets as small as it can, while still maintaining the vertical blue bar or normal thickness. Then I manually enter my URL into the URL field at the top of the browser, and voila, no 'e'. As an experiment, I just ran mozilla, clicked the button to make it full screen, resized the sidebar, and then hit my webpage, and the bug occurred again. (please note that you have to manually enter the URL into the field, I have not tried to reproduce the bug by hitting my my page from a link) I have been able to reproduce the bug many times in the last few minutes. But I must point out that it does not always occurr for me. I can get it to reproduce about 75-80% of the times I attempt to do so.

And the bug only seems to occur when I am running a fresh instance of mozilla.

That last part suggests that it's timing related. If it's a fresh instance, then nothing is in the memory cache. These are the hardest to reproduce. It might be related to the floated image. There have been some problems in this area Is it possible for you to reduce the page (i.e., eliminate some of the HTML and still reproduce the problem)?

Yes, I whittled away some HTML and created 2 new pages, one with about 1/2 of my page removed. I nuked the tables and left only the large text at the top where the problem has been occurring, the large photo, and some smaller text. The URL for that is: http://www.borg.com/~wielgosz/index1.html I have been able to reproduce that bug with that page with the same frequency as the whole page. I also whittled the page down to virtually nothing at: http://www.borg.com/~wielgosz/index2.html On this page I left only to large text at the top of the page. I was able to reproduce the bug with this tiny page as well, except it manifested itself a little differently this time. In this example it dropped the 'l' from my last name as in: Welcome To The Home Of Richard V. Wiegosz I then went up to the URL and changed the 2 to a 1 so that I was looking at http://www.borg.com/~wielgosz/index1.html again, and it laid out with the 'e' missing from my last name again (the 'l' was there), as it did with the normal, full index.html page.

Marking this as a DUP of 19937, which I just saw. It describes the scenario we're seeing here. Richard, once there's a build that has the scanner change that fixes the character being dropped problem, please take a look and see if this fixes your testcase as well If not, we'll re-open the bug and keep diffing *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19937 ***

Agreed.Marking as verified dup of 19937.

I'll be on the lookout for the fix and let you know.

Thanks. I hope this fixes it.

Just being pedantic. I think you meant that this is a dup of bug 19337.

Correcting duplicate typo... Thanks for finding this! (and sorry for the spam...)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19337 ***

Marking verified too. (Based on previous comments.)