[Solved]Missing texts in firefox

brevity · 2014-11-20 00:41:38

On some sites, there're texts not showing at all in firefox. E.g., on bugzilla, the only texts showing in firefox is the discussions and comments, no bug description, no hyperlinks of the site, not even the head description of bugs, etc. The same problem also happens with konqueror, opera etc., sometimes even causing them to freeze for a while, but everything is normal in google-chrome.
After googling around, I guess the problem is related to Missing text in some applications. But the solution there does not work for me. Everything is up-to-date on my machine, and it used to work perfectly fine a month ago. Any idea about why I'm having this problem and how can I fix it ? Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

Last edited by brevity (2014-11-21 15:59:56)

drcouzelis · 2014-11-20 18:52:43

Do you have any reason to believe that this is related to Java?

brevity · 2014-11-20 19:47:13

In fact, not really. It's just that when I use the inspect element function on the missing texts, it show something about "js", but as I look closer, it's not always so. Besides, the other java application(like filebot) works fine. Now I'm stuck with google-chrome.

drcouzelis · 2014-11-20 19:58:58

Can you please post links to two specific web pages that render with missing text in Firefox but render correctly in Chrome?

Can you post a screenshot (with a thumbnail) showing how they look to you?

brevity · 2014-11-20 20:43:53

Sure,
Here's the screenshot for firefox with the site https://system76.com/laptops
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9htZd … ZXZFU/view
and the screenshot for chrome with the same site
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9htZd … 9FY2M/view

Radioactiveman · 2014-11-20 21:27:56

I can confirm missing text on this page with Firefox, Midori and dwb (both use webkitgtk2).
Can someone test IE?

tzoi516 · 2014-11-20 21:32:18

I have the same issue. However, looking at the inspector shows div.progress with no text.

tzoi516 · 2014-11-20 21:33:57

From the inspector for those lines:

<div class="progress">

    <span class="meter" style="width: 70%;"></span>

</div>

cedeel · 2014-11-20 22:00:51

Works fine in Firefox here.

Radioactiveman · 2014-11-20 22:17:14

<h5>Portability</h5>

h5 is apparently not supported. Changing to h4 reveals the header.

drcouzelis · 2014-11-21 00:35:12

Radioactiveman wrote:

<h5>Portability</h5>
h5 is apparently not supported. Changing to h4 reveals the header.

What does that mean? The websites are using a non-standard tag that Firefox doesn't support? Who changed it to "h4"? You mean, you did?

Radioactiveman · 2014-11-21 07:50:39

drcouzelis wrote:

What does that mean? The websites are using a non-standard tag that Firefox doesn't support? Who changed it to "h4"? You mean, you did?

No, h5 is a standard tag. I changed it locally in the inspector of Firefox.

Chromium does not show the text either.
A friend tested Firefox on Windows and the text was shown.
This is a really strange issue.

brevity · 2014-11-21 16:00:06

Now everything is back to normal, I don't know exactly what went wrong, so I just mark it as solved.

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