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Doesn't display correctly on first load, but does on 'refresh'

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rrjmdpa
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This site is a great website [burnnotice.djmed.net] which worked until about two weeks ago (after a FF update?); but now every time I navigate to it the first time, it comes up displayed all wrong. All I have to do is click the refresh button and it displays correctly. If I hit refresh it displays correctly. Then if I click through to a secondary page, and return to home before it finishes loading graphics - it displays incorrectly again. But eventually (it seems related to completing all graphic downloads, but maybe not) Firefox displays it correctly all the time.

IE explorer 8 has no problem with it, and FF will display it correctly after a refresh. The site seems to use a position:relative on the < ul > nav list with position:absolute and opacity:0 on embedded < div >'s which are revealed with opacity:1 on hover. FF seems to parse the whole flow incorectly the first time in the site, then parses it correctly after a refresh... WHAT GIVES?

I have my machine set to start in "private browsing" but it does accept cookies. That, however, doesn't seem to have any correlation to the issue.

This site is a great website [burnnotice.djmed.net] which worked until about two weeks ago (after a FF update?); but now every time I navigate to it the first time, it comes up displayed all wrong. All I have to do is click the refresh button and it displays correctly. If I hit refresh it displays correctly. Then if I click through to a secondary page, and return to home before it finishes loading graphics - it displays incorrectly again. But eventually (it seems related to completing all graphic downloads, but maybe not) Firefox displays it correctly all the time. IE explorer 8 has no problem with it, and FF will display it correctly after a refresh. The site seems to use a position:relative on the < ul > nav list with position:absolute and opacity:0 on embedded < div >'s which are revealed with opacity:1 on hover. FF seems to parse the whole flow incorectly the first time in the site, then parses it correctly after a refresh... WHAT GIVES? I have my machine set to start in "private browsing" but it does accept cookies. That, however, doesn't seem to have any correlation to the issue.

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jrhall
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There are tonnes of possibilities and many websites with suggestions. I tried all sorts of these option (clear cache, clear cookies, anti-virus changes, page style options etc) with no success until eventually I accidentally changed my character encoding autodetect (firefox 6) from "off" to "universal" and everything is fine.