Web Formatting Screwed Up

[Springheel]

Occasionally the formatting of web-pages gets screwed up when I'm using Firefox. It happens with a number of pages, including the TDM forums, my own webpage, Facebook, and TTLG forums, as well as a random scattering of others. It seems to happen regularly if I load Firefox and then use another browser for something, and then come back to Firefox. Other times it happens for no discernable reason. Restarting the computer usually fixes the problem. Anyone have any idea why this might happen? The forums wind up looking like this:

[HappyCheeze]

I had that happen to me like 2 weeks ago. It also messed up deviantart.

 

What I did, is run a scan with AVG, got rid of about 4 web trackers and it started working again.

[New Horizon]

I've had that happen, not on a wide number of sites, but usually refreshing the page fixes it for me.

[Springheel]

What is AVG?

 

I looked at the console warnings, and this is what it shows when I try to load the forum. Does that mean anything to anyone?

 

[Springheel]

Hmm, did some more digging, as even restarting the computer wasn't solving it. I updated my java plugin and cleared my cache, and that returned it to normal.

[plasticman]

Anyone have any idea why this might happen?

 

Hi,

 

I have no idea why it is happening but I can see what is happening:

 

Your browser is loosing style. You can get the same result by giong to "view>page style" and select "no style".

 

This is meant to be a feature, so web authors can implement different styles the user can choose from, eg. a big-font-style for people with bad eyes.

 

I've seen this behavior on my machine as well, but very rarely and reloading the page usually did fix it for me.

 

 

 

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edit: fine, cross post . . .

Edited August 29, 2008 by plasticman

[HappyCheeze]

avg is an anti/virus and spyware software, you can get a free or paid version. Free is good, paid just has extras.

[Tels]

One reason the style can get lost is that you computer first fetches the HTML, which instructs him to fetch the CSS (aka the stylesheet) but then the connection fails.

 

This can happen if you have a really flaky connection, however, in this case you also get often missing images or pages that won't load.