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Seeing flash of unstyled content on page load

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On some sites - including the home page for Firefox and other Mozilla products - I'm getting the dreaded "flash of unstyled content" from back in the bad old days of Internet Explorer.

It doesn't happen all the time, but apparently when the cache has been cleared. Thing is I've seen it more than a few times on a site that I visit on a more than daily basis.

It's not limited to only the site I've listed in the "URL of site affected" but on numerous sites.

Yes, I use extensive CSS in the pages I develop and this is rather annoying as well as giving me those nasty flashbacks to when I *had* to use IE (remember IE5 and IE5.5? I do.)

On some sites - including the home page for Firefox and other Mozilla products - I'm getting the dreaded "flash of unstyled content" from back in the bad old days of Internet Explorer. It doesn't happen all the time, but apparently when the cache has been cleared. Thing is I've seen it more than a few times on a site that I visit on a more than daily basis. It's not limited to only the site I've listed in the "URL of site affected" but on numerous sites. Yes, I use extensive CSS in the pages I develop and this is rather annoying as well as giving me those nasty flashbacks to when I *had* to use IE (remember IE5 and IE5.5? I do.)