I reported this to the webmaster and it fixed itself, but now it's back. I am using Firefox 3.6.3 to view the MacRumors website. Sometimes when I first open the site, the formatting is off. As you can see, the stories that run down the middle of the page are partially covered by the navigation bars on the sides. But then I just opened another tab and launched MacRumors and it looked fine. So I'm not sure why the site looks off occasionally. I should mention that this is happening on my Windows XP Professional PC at work. I use Safari on my MacBook Pro at home - no problems there.
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Each extension you have installed will have a disable button. But maybe you don't have any extensions installed?
Each extension you have installed will have a disable button. But maybe you don't have any extensions installed?
Probably because you have lots of different versions of Java installed. Go to Add / Remove Programs and uninstall of them but the latest version. Since they are all Java 6 nothing should break by doing this.
Usually, if a website looks abnormal intermittently, it could just mean that a file wasn't downloaded. If a website has multiple CSS files and advertising content from a different server, then the advertising content could timeout during download. This could affect the downloading of the CSS files which control how the website looks.
If you have slow internet, then this is more likely to happen. I'm pretty sure some advertising content has various scripts and style sheets that can interfere with the website design too. The advertising content changes on each download, so that's another reason why the abnormality is intermittent.
If you have slow internet, then this is more likely to happen. I'm pretty sure some advertising content has various scripts and style sheets that can interfere with the website design too. The advertising content changes on each download, so that's another reason why the abnormality is intermittent.
I think it must be the ads. It just happened again. I noticed that when I refresh the main page, the banner at the top will change to a different ad. Most of the time nothing bad happens but every once in awhile I think the ads will appear in the wrong place, messing up the rest of the page.
BTW, I believe I have totally uninstalled java and made sure there were no extensions enabled. And this still happened. So I think your explanation is a good possibility. I am at work and we have a decent internet connection but with over 1000 people on the network, I'm sure we experience blips in our internet signal strength. So perhaps that messes up the refresh of the MacRumor site. But then, it is the only site I am having trouble with...