Firefox 4 briefly flashes then displays properly formatted blog

  • Hi everyone,

    Just want to say I am new to WordPress but I am quickly loving it and am quite amazed by the community and its Support.

    Not sure if this is an easy one for anyone to answer but I have a website and blog setup under a wordpress environment with a mystique theme.

    While setting up the site and blog I slowly have been adding to the plugins to adapt the website and blog. Since upgrading FF from Firefox 3 to 4. I notice an odd behaviour with a quickly flickering bare code site just before the theme properly loads. I removed all wordpress plugins and any code adjustments I can think of but FF4 still shows the same type of behavior. When I first upgraded to FF4 the site and blog loaded fine, but since then I did some changes, mostly plugin additions but like I mentioned, I disabled them for testing purposes.

    What got me thinking that FF4 might be an issue is that I loaded the site in IE9, Chrome and on a different computer that still had FF3, and the site loaded fine.

    In FF4 I loaded the old site (non-wordpress, just basic php) and am not seeing this flickering behavior so this is why I am posting to the wordpress forum.

    The site is https://www.hydroproxy.org and the old php site is https://www.hydroproxy.org/old_site

    Any help is greatly appreciated. With all the new users jumping on FF4 I would hate to have this problem persist.

    If you need any more info let me know and I’ll do my best to provide more feedback.

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  • Thread Starter hydroproxy

    (@hydroproxy)

    Does anyone have any feedback? Anyone ever see this behaviour or may know what to look for in order to troubleshoot?

    Thanks in advance,

    Hi,
    I just looked at your site, and when I follow links, I do get the bare HTML quick glance as you did.

    You are using the notoriously finicky Mystique theme. Do you have the latest version of that?

    I used it on a site, and it’s very nice, but had some slightly annoying portions of the code that I had to countermand, such as for any IE user it would display a very snarky lecture about what a dumb browser that was (I agree, but I don’t lecture site visitors and destroy my business). Clearly it’s been coded by a very talented, but fairly callow, individual.

    You’ve ruled out the plugins, that’s a good first move. My first stop would be to try another theme and see if it goes away. The Mystique Javascript could be borking FF4.

    Lastly, you seem to have a drop-down plugin working… when I did my Mystique site, it already had dropdowns working with no extra plugins, so that may be redundant or conflicting. That’s something else to check.

    good luck, D

    Thread Starter hydroproxy

    (@hydroproxy)

    Thanks Flamenco,

    Mystique theme installed looks to be up to date. 2.4.2.

    I used your suggestion of using another theme, I enabled the “tweenty ten” theme and now the site is loading fine. The flickering I was describing is not happening with the default twenty ten theme. I since went back to the mystique theme and the theme looks to be having the same issue again. I would like to stay with this theme.

    The site was working with this theme on FF4 at the beginning before I added plugins. I did a few modifications so Im going to try and track down anything I can think of.

    If anyone still has any remarks and what files I should be checking, let me know. But thanks for your feedback in isolating the problem to the mystique theme.

    Thread Starter hydroproxy

    (@hydroproxy)

    For those that may just run into this. The variables would just need to be right. The problem happened on a mystique theme, (but I dont believe this is limited to just mystique), only on FF4 and the root problem was with a “kind of like” a CDN service and there was a beta program that my site was on (without my knowledge) that asynchronously loads your JavaScript resources. The idea is to optimize your site but in my experience I actually rebuilt my wordpress site from scratch because I could not figure out what the issue maybe.

    Thanks again but the issue did not look to be wordpress or even the mystique theme but rather a 3rd party. Thanks for your help, without it, I might have still beeen scratching my head. Cheers,

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