Coloured stripes on the main page

Alex Holowczak · Post by **Alex Holowczak** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:25 pm

In Ubuntu 11.04, with Firefox 5.0, I get various colours on this page of the forum. Every other page is fine. The top is dark, then there are three blue stripes, followed by a purple stripe and a green stripe. It's not an issue with my monitor, because the pattern moves in line with the page. Is this supposed to be there?

Ian Kingston · Post by **Ian Kingston** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:30 pm

Just checked here: no such problem. But Ubuntu is running in a virtual machine, so that may make a difference.

John Upham · Post by **John Upham** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:35 pm

I've checked with Lynx and cannot reproduce the stripe effect problem.

Not bothered to try with Interweb Exploiter.

Ian Kingston · Post by **Ian Kingston** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:11 pm

John Upham wrote:I've checked with Lynx and cannot reproduce the stripe effect problem.

The old ones are the best.

Sean Hewitt · Post by **Sean Hewitt** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:23 pm

Alex Holowczak wrote:In Ubuntu 11.04, with Firefox 5.0, I get various colours on this page of the forum. Every other page is fine. The top is dark, then there are three blue stripes, followed by a purple stripe and a green stripe. It's not an issue with my monitor, because the pattern moves in line with the page. Is this supposed to be there?

This should cure your problem.

Alex Holowczak · Post by **Alex Holowczak** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:47 pm

Sean Hewitt wrote:
Alex Holowczak wrote:In Ubuntu 11.04, with Firefox 5.0, I get various colours on this page of the forum. Every other page is fine. The top is dark, then there are three blue stripes, followed by a purple stripe and a green stripe. It's not an issue with my monitor, because the pattern moves in line with the page. Is this supposed to be there?
This should cure your problem.

Well, I don't have the problem with Google Chrome, so I think it's just a Firefox failure. Given Firefox tells me I need to install Flash, despite it already being installed, I'm willing to believe it's just Firefox being rubbish. And not a problem with Ubuntu at all.

Carl Hibbard · Post by **Carl Hibbard** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 2:42 pm

I will look when I get home however my primary desktop is Debian testing release Wheezy

Carl Hibbard · Post by **Carl Hibbard** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 5:59 pm

Alex Holowczak wrote:In Ubuntu 11.04, with Firefox 5.0, I get various colours on this page of the forum. Every other page is fine. The top is dark, then there are three blue stripes, followed by a purple stripe and a green stripe. It's not an issue with my monitor, because the pattern moves in line with the page. Is this supposed to be there?

Try clearing your cache as it's fine here in Firefox 5 although Chromium 13 is far quicker of course

Paul McKeown · Post by **Paul McKeown** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 9:35 pm

Fine with Firefox 6 under XP, Vista or openSUSE. Its even fine with Firefox 6 running under KDE for Windows! If all else fails try upgrading to IE4 under Windows 95.

Alex Holowczak · Post by **Alex Holowczak** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 9:43 pm

It works fine in Firefox 5.0 for Windows XP. I think it's just the Ubuntu/Firefox combination not working.

John Upham · Post by **John Upham** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:06 pm

Paul McKeown wrote: If all else fails try upgrading to IE4 under Windows 95.

I'm tempted to reinstall HotHJava for the ZX Spectrum for old times sake...

Carl Hibbard · Post by **Carl Hibbard** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:31 pm

I used Mosaic in early 1994 but we have moved on a little

Carl Hibbard · Post by **Carl Hibbard** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:44 pm

My first serious 'PC' was this running a Cobol payroll but that is about the limit of my memory:

tandy_trs80-model2_1.jpg

It's hard to believe even now honest

John Upham · Post by **John Upham** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 11:50 pm

My first PC was one of these used in the Chemistry Department of University College, London:

John Upham · Post by **John Upham** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 11:54 pm

The PC connected via the Interweb thingy to this little gem:

English Chess Forum

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