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Wednesday, February 21. 2007

At work, I send out newsletter to a rather large mailing list. Naturally, the subscribers list contains a number of hotmail email addresses.

Each time I prepare to send out a message, I first send it to a list of email my own email addresses, hotmail, gmail, yahoo mail, outlook express and Thunderbird.

When viewing the last message with Firefox it displayed strangely in the full version of Windows Live Mail. When scrolling the html message, every 'click' of the scroll mouse would leave a white line across the message about 1 pixel in height; full width of the message. It seems to mostly fall between text lines. Every few lines of text would get walked on by this mysterious white line. Images would display all of the white lines.

This doesn't happen when viewing the message in Internet Explorer 6/7 using full version WLM.

I've stripped the html code down to something quite simple and yet the white line persists.

So. In conclusion, it appears something changed in WLM that causes firefox to add a 1px white line with every scroll down.

update: problem still exists in Firefox 2.0.0.4, and I have verified that it also happens under Linux (Ubuntu 5.x). This does not appear to be OS dependant.

Posted by Chris at 07:49 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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wow, I have this EXACT same problem trying to scroll down vertically on a page I just updated with a flash animation right now. i found your post while researching this glitch online. If anyone can shed some light on this it would be great. I am experiencing what appears to be the same problem only on a client's web site which features a new scrolling flash message that (when removed) seems to resolve this glitch. I would say the flash is to blame if it were not for the fact the piece is only 4kb and other pages feature it with a vertically scrolling area that doesn't exhibit this problem. You can see it here (only happens in IE for me, Mozilla shows it fine): http://www.artisiansunsetsalsa.com/products.htm

hope someone can suggest something for this ...

thanks in advance

smk

#1 smak (Homepage) on 2007-03-01 19:22 (Reply)

Your scroll is running backwards on the url mentioned. English reads left to right.

I only experience problems with FF 2.0.0.2 using Windows Live Mail (full). Scroll mouse, or cursor down.

#1.1 Chris on 2007-03-02 05:32 (Reply)

I have the same problem with 2.0.0.7. Anybody figure out whats causing this or how to fix it yet?

#2 Mulsiphix on 2007-09-30 16:50 (Reply)

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