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comments section in yahoo doesn't word wrap properly when posting a comment

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This is a very annoying problem that has been repeatable in FF 5

You try to post a comment in Yahoo and characters disappear on the right side and they DO show up when you actually post the comment.

WordWrap is not properly working. If you force a CR, the characters appear.

This is a very annoying problem that has been repeatable in FF 5 You try to post a comment in Yahoo and characters disappear on the right side and they DO show up when you actually post the comment. WordWrap is not properly working. If you force a CR, the characters appear.

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When I compose a comment below a story in finance.yahoo.com, the text box wraps normally. Which section are you commenting in so I can test there?

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Yahoo news comments.

http://news.yahoo.com/

Averatec 3280 running XP

S3 Graphics 1024x768 display

Problem only in FF 5. Earlier versions were OK on this box.

I don't think I have this problem with CHROMIUM ( NOT Google CHROME )

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Update: problem is intermittent. But repeatable every so often..don't you love working on problems like that...

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I'm not getting that, but if I move the resizer to the right, I can make the edge of the box disappear so that text goes beyond the margin. If yours is doing that automatically, I wonder whether an add-on might be involved?

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I think that is part of the problem. I CAN'T use the resizer. It doesn't work on this Averatec and I suspect it does not work on most 1024x768 displays.

I may have to go back to FF 3.5. I liked it better than the 4 and 5 upgrades.

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I'm not sure why the resolution would affect the resizer; is it a Windows 7 feature?

You can use a script to resize the box down to a width of 480px. Can you try this the next time the box isn't working? Just paste this to the address bar and press Enter:


javascript:void(document.getElementById("ugccmt-post-frm-textarea").style.width="480px");

If you display the bookmarks toolbar, you can create a button to run that script. Copy the script, right-click the bar and choose New Bookmark, then paste the code in where it says Location and assign a short name such as Y-box.

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If you want an earlier version, 3.6.18 is up-to-date with security fixes. 3.5 is obsolete now.

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I solved the problem by going back to FF 3.6 and the sizer ( with all the problems ) went away.

That means that Mozilla needs to create a permanent fix or dump the resizer feature.

I don't recommend buggy products to my clients and this problem is a deal-breaker.

It looks like when support for 3.6.xx goes away, I will too...CHROMIUM ( not Google Chrome ) doesn't have this " feature ".

And I have been using Firefox and the programs that came before it as an alternate to M$ IE...

The same applies to my LINUX boxes.

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I understand that you've given up on Firefox 5 at this point.

If you later install it again, and you can replicate the problem in a new blank Firefox profile -- thus ruling out your migrated extensions and settings -- it definitely would be worth posting this issue in Bugzilla.

Creating a blank profile: Managing profiles.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

One of the other variables to test is disabling hardware graphics acceleration. I have no idea whether it could affect form controls, but that feature has had its challenges on some systems.

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The Yahoo News problem I'm having is with 4.0.1 (but I suspect this is generic to any version). I click the article . . . the page completes loading its elements (comments, graphics etc.) . . . and then immediately the entire content of the article collapses (disappears) leaving only the title. The articles view fine in Explorer, but their content completely vanishes within seconds if I view this in Firefox.

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@merrywidow, that sounds quite different than the original question.

If you reload, does the layout correct itself? If not, do you use any blocker add-ons (ads, flash, scripts) that could be affecting the page?

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This is starting to look like a" feature " involving Yahoo! News. I'm on FF3.6 now and the majority of problems are gone. Yahoo nags me to upgrade to ff4, but no problems otherwise.