Sort out this sig please

SarahNeedle1872

Oy Wig, leave my sig alone!!!

And for your information, there is nothing wrong with it..... check out the other goodness-knows-how-many other threads I've contributed to.....

Numpty_Monkey

Nope, nothing wrong with the sig

candygirl

And I thought I had problems:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Alfie_E

Wig wrote: »

…I wonder if as you say it is FF2

Your wondering is correct. Firefox 2 is only prepared to break lines of text at spaces. So, if you have a very long sequence of characters with no spaces, Firefox 2 will stretch the formatting of everything else around it to fit. Both Internet Explorer 6 and 7, along with Firefox 3, will break at other places, such as before or after certain punctuation marks.

Wig wrote: »

I'm on Firefox V2.00.5

You’ve got a very old version of Firefox 2! The latest is 2.0.0.16. For security reasons, you should upgrade to this.

ZTD

I'm using FF 2.0.0.16 on Linux and FF 2.something on windows, and they all appear fine.

Breaking on a space or not - her .sig doesn't appear in huge writing.

Alfie_E

ZTD wrote: »

Breaking on a space or not - her .sig doesn't appear in huge writing.

In Wig’s partial screen grab, it’s only text formatted with a font tag using a size attribute (<font size="1">) that’s oversized. All the other sizing, done by other lines in the CSS file, is correct. I’ve got two suggestions.

1. Wig has a broken copy of the MSE forum CSS in his browser’s cache. (Delete cache and try again.)
2. I suppose it could be the result of a Firefox add-on.

Wig

ZTD wrote: »

I'm using FF 2.0.0.16 on Linux and FF 2.something on windows, and they all appear fine.

Breaking on a space or not - her .sig doesn't appear in huge writing.

So do you confirm that your FF2 versions do not wrap text unless there is a space? Which would confirm half the problem.

The other half of the problem is as you say my FF2 shows sigs in a large font compared to the post text.

If you have those 2 combined, like me, you would see her posts distort the forum.

Wig

Alfie_E wrote: »

In Wig’s partial screen grab, it’s only text formatted with a font tag using a size attribute (<font size="1">) that’s oversized. All the other sizing, done by other lines in the CSS file, is correct. I’ve got two suggestions.

1. Wig has a broken copy of the MSE forum CSS in his browser’s cache. (Delete cache and try again.)
2. I suppose it could be the result of a Firefox add-on.

1. It can't be that, I regularly clear cache.
2. onlt FF add-ons I have are
DOM inspector 1.8.1.5. - dunno what this is?
Screengrab 0.95 - I installed this, but I could swear the problem occured on MSE well before installing this

I'll try disabling DOM and see what happens.....

EDIT: I did disable DOM and nothing changed. I also just found out that on google home page, between IE6 and my FF2, the options in the top left of the screen have the same text size and the 'google' logo is the same size, but the all the other texts are enlarged on the FF2 view, that includes the top right "google sign in" and the search box is much bigger, and the text to the right of the search box ('advanced' etc), the text on the 2 buttons under the search box and the "Advertising, business, about google" links below that.

So what is it that controls certain text sizes and not others?

Wig

SarahNeedle1872 wrote: »

Oy Wig, leave my sig alone!!!

And for your information, there is nothing wrong with it..... check out the other goodness-knows-how-many other threads I've contributed to.....

Had you read and understood this thread, you would have realised that your sig gave me problems on every thread you contribute to. Naturally I thought it was a problem that everyone would have, but through the thread discovered it was a problem not experienced by most on this occasion but does happen to others on other occassions.

People who have said they also experience it use FF3 and IE7 so it appears to be not limited to FF2, but we don't as yet know if it is experienced by all FF2 users/versions.

Wig

Alfie_E wrote: »

You’ve got a very old version of Firefox 2! The latest is 2.0.0.16. For security reasons, you should upgrade to this.

Bottom of this page has 2 people experiencing problems with 20016. The second one should be easy enough to avoid, how do I ensure my bookmarks remain unchanged?

What's the other one about being unable to visit certain web sites?