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When opening site wikitravel.org, the left pane gets shifted to the bottom of the page.

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When I open http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page in Firefox 9.0.1, the navigation pane on the left gets shifted to the bottom of the page. Vertically, it starts where the right pane ends.

When I open http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page in Firefox 9.0.1, the navigation pane on the left gets shifted to the bottom of the page. Vertically, it starts where the right pane ends.

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You can ask the admin of this site to update their MediaWiki software, because it is outdated and uses broken browser sniffing. The problem is in this line in wikibits.js:
var is_khtml = (navigator.vendor == 'KDE' || ( document.childNodes && !document.all && !navigator.taintEnabled ));
This no longer works in Firefox 9 and above. Navigator.taintEnabled is no longer supported.
See http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2392487

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You can ask the admin of this site to update their MediaWiki software, because it is outdated and uses broken browser sniffing. The problem is in this line in wikibits.js:
var is_khtml = (navigator.vendor == 'KDE' || ( document.childNodes && !document.all && !navigator.taintEnabled ));
This no longer works in Firefox 9 and above. Navigator.taintEnabled is no longer supported.
See http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2392487

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That is caused by an old JavaScript that runs on that page and that is using the no longer supported navigator.taintEnabled() function to do improper browser sniffing.
That causes a stylesheet to be added that changes the margin of that menu causing it to get moved down.


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