Hello there.

From my brief testing, the site is working ok. I think...

It's possible that you are having a problem with some Firefox add-on that is hindering your Firefox's normal behavior. Have you tried disabling all add-ons (just to check), to see if Firefox goes back to normal?

Whenever you have a problem with Firefox, whatever it is, you should make sure it's not caused by one (or more than one) of your installed add-ons, be it an extension, a theme or a plugin. To do that easily and cleanly, run Firefox in safe mode (don't forget to select Disable all add-ons when you start safe mode). If the problem disappears, you know it's from an add-on. Disable them all in normal mode, and enable them one at a time until you find the source of the problem. See this article for information about troubleshooting extensions and theme and this one for plugins.

If you need support for one of your add-ons, you'll have to contact its author.

Thanks for the reply!

I disabled everything, ran in safe mode and took this screen shot. took about 3 clicks on the 'About MPL' link for it happen (so no change) the page is confirming its 'Done' and just sits there. :(

One interesting thing is it doesn't seem to happen when i got back to normal mode and have firebug up and running/enabled....seems i can click all day and have the pages load fine. If i disable firebug by just hitting the off button (so it goes grey) the problem comes back!

I hadn't clicked that link. I tried it, it's not working all the time on my end either, so it's probably some bug (even if intermittent) with Firefox. I don't know if it's time out related or something like that, but this is not the best of places to seek specialized help on these matters. You can try mozillaZine, which is populated with fairly experienced people and the devs often read it (although the support section is basically like Firefox support here...), or, if you have technical details about the bug, you can try filing a bug at bugzilla.

Other than that, I can't be of more help, since I have no knowledge of Lotus coding.

That's cool i really appreciate you taking a look :)

It's at least nice to know its not just my installation doing it, all my other sites a nice easy .NET ones and i have no trouble with FF there heh

Thought id check here first in case it was user-related and someone could point me right, but i did fear it might be a bug :(

I'll try fiddling with the CSS, change image references to direct rather than relative maybe (the background doesn't appear when the page fails to render completely... so maybe a CSS parsing issue) other than that it seems timing related so a quick 'delay rendering' hack might work heh

Thanks again and also to any lurkers who took the time to have a look at the problem too.

I am experiencing the same issue - Firefox fails to render the whole page. The difference is that it happens randomly may be every 10th time and I cannot post a link as the site is in a private network.

It is really a strange bug as I can't reproduce it and there is no error message.

I also have a javascript which is added on page load and which is executed but it fails to populate the information as the input fields are missing on the page (when the problem occur)

There is one more common thing - I am using IBM server as well :)

Hi all,

Same issue here: Firefox 3.6.12 /Windows Xp SP3 / no pluggins installed or running.

1. Simple and short web page with a javascript function triggered by onload body event.

2.The function retrieves an element, you know... document.getElementById...

3.Randomly, when firefox load the page, the document.getElementById call returns null. Most of the times it retrieves the element ok, but if I try it enought times it fails. Other times it fails the first try. In this case, when it fails, firefox stops rendering the page or maybe it's because firefox stopped rendering why I can't get the element. I don't know, but the page code is correct while firefox rendered completely blank page.

A) The page code retrieved by the browser it's always the same, don't matter if firefox renders it or not and I can see the code using firefox context menu. B) I.E. 8 and Chrome don't have the issue. They never fail rendering the page. C) There are no erros shown in the error console.

I would like to know if anyone encountered some workarround for this issue since last post.

Thank you very much,

I found many people with the same issue, like:

http://efreedom.com/Question/1-1943082/Dojorequire-Prevents-Firefox-Rendering-Page

So, when you get the error, a blank page is shown and if you get the code from context menu it is correct but if you do File->Save as, you get html with empty body.

It's clearly Firefox bug, an affects at least 3.5 and 3.6 versions.

The problems seems to be related width the onload function call. I recomend you to view this: http://efreedom.com/Question/1-1943082/Dojorequire-Prevents-Firefox-Rendering-Page

thanks

The same issue here. I've noticed it about 4 month ago in 3.5 and still the same issue with 3.6. No error messages, blank pages but correct page source. Looks like as if page was rendered but output to screen did not execute. The worst part is that it is random, may strike every other time on the same page or once in 5-10 reloads. Never happens in GC or IE. Hitting reload will not always solve it in my case but if I set focus on location bar and hit ENTER then it will always display page correctly.

Seems to be happening with sites which using a lot of dynamic content and javascript ajax.

I wish someone from support would really check this because it gets to the point where I would have to recommend visitors not to use FF.

Windows XP SP3 Windows 2003 Server. FF 3.6.13

I'm having this problem as well and we're in friggin 11 beta >/.

Mine just started, randomly. I had 8 and it had been working just fine, then my computer had a hissy fit crash and when I restarted it and went to Firefox, suddenly Firefox didn't feel like rendering DeviantART or Tumblr's rich text editor, or ANY site's rich text editor.

None of my add-ons are the problem, I've checked my firewall TWICE and it's not the problem, cleared the cache, everything.

This was such an annoying, major bug that I was forced to go use Chrome.

If we're on version 10/11 and this has apparently been a problem since 3.5, where are the priorities? This should be a priority bug fix, especially since it appears to be only me (none of my friends are having these problems).

I love Firefox and I want to keep it as my default browser, but if it continues to have a bug that makes it borderline useless, I'm afraid I'll have to switch to Chrome.

For now, the hard refresh tactic seems to work (FINALLY), but I don't expect that to last forever. So please get to fixing this, Mozilla. Preferably before 11 is officially out.