Weird Problems In Firefox

[meadish_sweetball]

For a few days I tend to get unpredictable and strange results when trying to access web pages. Sometimes part of the code reveals itself on the empty page (such as just now when I clicked on the link for the Thaivisa Internet forum, see below) and sometimes I get a download window showing up, asking me if I want to download the php file.

Does anybody else get the same thing? It is not only Thaivisa, it happens with Google and other websites too, in a seemingly random fashion.

Here is the code that showed when I first clicked the Internet forum link:

var phpadsbanner = '';

phpadsbanner += '<'+'a href=\'http://media.thaivisa.com/adclick.php?bannerid=353&zoneid=7&source=&dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.angelesbeachclubhotel.com\' target=\'_blank\' onMouseOver="self.status=\'ABC Hotel\'; return true;" onMouseOut="self.status=\'\';return true;"><'+'img src=\'http://www.thaivisa.com/promotions/banners/abchotel/abctop.gif\' width=\'426\' height=\'40\' alt=\'ABC Hotel\' title=\'ABC Hotel\' border=\'0\'><'+'/a><'+'div id="beacon_353" style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><'+'img src=\'http://media.thaivisa.com/adlog.php?bannerid=353&clientid=279&zoneid=7&source=&block=0&capping=0&cb=58858bcc0fa7428d7d52820b16801268\' width=\'0\' height=\'0\' alt=\'\' style=\'width: 0px; height: 0px;\'><'+'/div>';

document.write(phpadsbanner);

if (document.phpAds_used) document.phpAds_used += 'bannerid:353,';

if (document.phpAds_used) document.phpAds_used += 'campaignid:279,';

Cheers in advance for any input.

EDIT: When I first clicked on the send button for this post, I got a "Bad request" message (You sent something the server could not understand).

[A_Traveller]

For a few days I tend to get unpredictable and strange results when trying to access web pages. Sometimes part of the code reveals itself on the empty page (such as just now when I clicked on the link for the Thaivisa Internet forum, see below) and sometimes I get a download window showing up, asking me if I want to download the php file.

Does anybody else get the same thing? It is not only Thaivisa, it happens with Google and other websites too, in a seemingly random fashion.

Here is the code that showed when I first clicked the Internet forum link:

<snip>

Cheers in advance for any input.

EDIT: When I first clicked on the send button for this post, I got a "Bad request" message (You sent something the server could not understand).

Are you using any add or pop-up blocker?

Regards

[meadish_sweetball]

I dont use an ad blocker, but my Firewall had a default popup blocker activated earlier.

I do use a number of other extensions for Firefox:

Agent Switcher

FireFTP

ColorfulTabs

Talkback

Skype Extension for Firefox

Download Statusbar

Customize Google

ColorZilla

[A_Traveller]

I dont use an ad blocker, but my Firewall had a default popup blocker activated earlier.

I do use a number of other extensions for Firefox:

Agent Switcher

FireFTP

ColorfulTabs

Talkback

Skype Extension for Firefox

Download Statusbar

Customize Google

ColorZilla

I recall some discussions re the Skype extension causing some odd problems, I'll have to have a rummage.

Regards

PS Can't find reference to this exact problem, but might still be worth checking versions etc. on the add-in.

/edit add PS//

Edited May 28, 2007 by A_Traveller

[meadish_sweetball]

I uninstalled the Skype plugin and Agent Switcher, and switched off the popup blocker in Firefox - restarted but the same symptoms persist. Any more ideas

[Tywais]

I uninstalled the Skype plugin and Agent Switcher, and switched off the popup blocker in Firefox - restarted but the same symptoms persist. Any more ideas

It looks like corrupted packets possibly due to a bad connection somewhere. Does it do the same thing if you use IE? Also, try to ping a site when you have the problem and see if there are any missing packets.

[meadish_sweetball]

Cheers Tywais.

I will start by restarting my router to see if it is acting up, I guess. Then I will take the ping route.

Edit: I have now rebooted the router, and I pinged www.thaivisa.com www.google.com and www.google.se as well as www.bbc.co.uk and all packets went through with no loss.

So far no more problems. Will come back if they show up again.

[Gumballl]

I'm using FF and oddly enough the HTML content of this entire TV post does not wrap to the preset width of my window. If I go back a page that lists the forum topics, then everything is fine.

There must be a formatting issue with this page (and/or topic).

[Tywais]

I'm using FF and oddly enough the HTML content of this entire TV post does not wrap to the preset width of my window. If I go back a page that lists the forum topics, then everything is fine.

There must be a formatting issue with this page (and/or topic).

It's due to the code tag format in Meadish's original post (very wide). Behaves the same as an overly large photo would. Nothing abnormal.