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Hey gang.

Now you get to point and laugh and generally make fun of me. It's OK. I'm more or less asking for it, since I'm posting this here.

Anyway, about 3 days ago, a few of the websites I frequent started looking quite messed up. Take gamersgate for instance:



(fun fact, imgur, the image hoster I primarily use, and the one hosting this image as well, is also fucked up for me)

It's only on my desktop computer, so I know it's a local problem and not associated with Firefox, as I tried loading IE just to see if the error was consistent, and it was. On my laptop, everything loads as it should.

Now, I tried completely uninstalling firefox and reinstalling from scratch, but that did nothing.

I know I could just do a complete wipe and reinstall Win7, everything included, but I'd rather not do that just yet.

Any of you gents have an idea what could have gone wrong here, and how to fix it? Much appreciated.

How is your graphics card doing? Have you tested it with anything else?

edit: Also, try reinstalling java and flash.

It just looks to me like the page isn't loading all the way. Usually happens when the server you're accessing is busy.

Are all your computers going through the same router? Having any speed-related access issues lately?

For a moment I thought you had NoScript running, but that's a Firefox plugin and wouldn't affect IE.
Still, Javascript might be something to check for. See if Java is installed properly, or if your Antivirus is blocking execution of Javascripts somehow.

Such great lag few networks have experienced since the mid 90s, Azira.

Haven't tried reinstalling Java yet, will look into that, thank you.

The graphics card seems sound. No problems otherwise, including when I run games. Also, it's only a few specific websites that look borked. The codex for instance is just fine. One of the newssites I check is borked, another is not. Gamersgate is borked, GoG is not.

All my computers go via the same router, and the laptop works as intended so far.

No plugins installed on my "fresh" install of firefox, so that shouldn't be the issue either. I have the same antivirus program running on my laptop.

I'll look into java, do a reinstall and hope that clears up the mess. Thank you for your suggestions everyone.

Reinstalling Java did squat. Even tried loading the pages without java installed, and they still display all wrong.
Tried disabling my antivirus. No dice.

Any other ideas? I'm still drawing a blank.

I've got some weird things happening too... at some point, I couldn't access some random sites (Like Carmadeggon.com for example, not porn. Those worked.) out of the blue. Don't know why, a Windows re-install which was over-due anyway didn't fix it. I finally solved it by following a suggestion I found on the interwebz to change some setting on my network card. It was to disable "Receive Side Scaling". I have no fucking idea what that does or why did I have to do that when everything worked fine before, but there it is, now everything works... well, except for the imgur images posted on this forum. For everyone of those I have to select "view image", otherwise they don't load.

Oh yeah, and I use a router too, with all the computers connected to it, but I only had/have the problem on my main one.

All I can conclude is that you guys have the devil in your computers.

I asked in another forum as well, and it seems the pages that are giving me difficulty aren't using ordinary "css" files. They use a server-side language to make the css codes, and that fucks something up on my end. Now I'm anxiously awaiting what this means for me, if I can fix it or what..

Wait, what? As long as the CSS content reaches your browser and is valid, it shouldn't make any difference if the stylesheets are static or constructed dynamically. Can you link to the thread where you read this, now I'm curious about this web fuckup type I haven't heard of before... Will the madness never end?

Be warned that the thread is in Dane-speak. But yes, I can link.

If you've an extra router or a different port, just see if that resolves the issue. It just sounds like, for what ever reason, you're not receiving all the data you should be. I've seen this sort of behavior on my system, as well, but it's random and likely related to network load. *Shrug*

Looking over the thread and the linked stylesheet (after rolling a 17 on my Comprehend Languages roll), I would say that these [jedimindtrick] are not the problems you're looking for.

Seriously, the Css content is all right, and that's all that should matter to the browser -> when it makes a request for the text/css content, does it get a valid stylesheet? Whether the stylesheet is just a file, a result of a crappy PHP script, or manually typed out by third world labor - matters not. Of course, I'm just a dog on the internet and I could be wrong, and the fucked up page display does indicate Css issues... Can you open http://www.gamersgate.com/css/gg.css?load=core,site,fancybox2 in the same browser in a new tab? I mean, theoretically, something could be blocking it from loading for you based on Http headers or whatnot, it's just that I've never heard of such an issue...

I can open that page just fine. I am really in the dark as to what the problem is here, but at least clearing out the cookies (again) seems to have solved the issue with imgur at least. This means I don't have completely wipe the HD and start over before I can update my LP.

I wish I knew what the problem is and how to solve it though.

Turns out it was my antivirus program. Specifically, the "Real Time Antivirus" part of it. Even more specifically, the web-browser safety part. When I disabled that bit, everything reverts to the way it should be.
Support at my antivirus provider is dumbfounded. They haven't heard of this happening before. What do I care? I just got a reason to change to another antivirus program.

Well, glad to hear you figured it out and nothing prevents you from writing a LP update now

Nope, nothing except that my eldest has contracted the chicken pox, so there's precious little me-time currently. But I'm about 80% done progress wise in the game for the next update, then I just need to put it together and post it.

You people have children?

God save humanity.