Re: [css-d] Could The Stylesheet Be Crashing Firefox?

[Peter-Paul Koch]

 I have a page that actually crashes Firefox and Netscape 8.0 (at least, via
 Windows XP - I just found out about it and need to test on other platforms).

 The page is http://sesius.com/Products/Manufacturing.htm - do a Print Preview,
 then when the Close button is clicked Firefox dies.  None of the other pages 
 on
 the site do this, and I have been unable to pinpoint the problem by 
 selectively
 commenting lines.

Comfirmed crash in Mozilla 1.7.12

 Is it possible that something in the print stylesheet might be doing this?

Quite.

Basically Mozilla sucks at printing with style sheets. The styles are
never quite correctly applied, and often elements overlap each other.

Mozilla's Print Preview also sucks. Moz 1.7.5 crashed on the print
preview of http://alistapart.com/articles/pdf_accessibility , though
1.7.12 doesn't any more.

Put these two suckers together and you've got one hell of a problem
that's not your fault but Mozilla's.

If you'd happen to find the exact reason for the crash that would be
wonderful, but if you don't you'll just have to live with it. It's not
your fault.

For
 some reason I have yet to determine, the images do not line up properly within
 the print perview (they are fine in IE and Opera, although Opera offers to
 print two extra pages, for some reason), so perhaps whatever is causing the
 image display error may also be causing the crash.

 I have only begun putting together print stylesheets, so perhaps I am doing
 something seriously wrong - or perhaps this is just a bug.  If the latter, 
 does
 anyone have an idea as to where I would go to report it?

Theoretically you should report this at bugzilla.mozilla.org .
However, this system is totally unusable for mere mortals without an
advanced degree in Informatics and intimate knowledge of the Mozilla
program.

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Re: [css-d] Could The Stylesheet Be Crashing Firefox?

[Holly Bergevin]

From: George L Smyth [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I have a page that actually crashes Firefox and Netscape 8.0 (at least, via
Windows XP - I just found out about it and need to test on other platforms).

The page is http://sesius.com/Products/Manufacturing.htm 

George, I seem to recall having a problem with this type of thing in a couple 
of different settings. One was with a large table that would print over 
multiple pages. This required exact width measurements to correct, and if more 
text was placed in a cell, would mess it up again. 

The other problem I never really solved (if I recall) but had to do with a 
combination of property/values with other elements in the layout I had no 
control over and probably involved float clearing. 

One good recommendation for pages with floated elements is to unfloat them 
for printing purposes. 

I don't suppose this has been much help, and I agree with PPK that you may just 
have to live with this problem, but perhaps my experiences will allow you to 
hunt down potential trigger areas in your page.

Cheers,

~holly 
 
   
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