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Im using firefox on a mac and till yesterday everything was fine. Today something seems messed up with the CSS... not getting any formatting on the pages. But oddly its working fine on Safari. I cleared cookies and all that... and it can't be any browser issues. All other pages are working fine. Anyone know what the issue is?

This is how it looks for me on firefox:

https://i.imgur.com/Gg8ie1t.png

Yeah, the style sheets and images just fail to load sometimes. I complained about it a while ago (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=528500.msg5927341#msg5927341) but nothing was ever done about it. :(

But isn't it odd that its only happening With firefox? Its working on Safari.... and pictures are loading fine on both.

Meanwhile on Safari :)

https://i.imgur.com/UPvzDQH.png

If you clear Safari's cache it probably won't work well either.

Do you still have problems with that? I need to force-refresh the main page three times in quick succession before the server starts blocking me. Do you have no caching at all?

Apparently not. Although everything is being cached correctly (according to about:cache), Firefox seems to be ignoring the cache completely. ???

Images are showing fine for me in Firefox. Its the styles that are not working for. Refreshed, restarted browser, cookies, whatever. No luck. But perfect on Safari.

Don't mean to hijack, but I'd love some additional details on how HTML loads but CSS doesn't. With a spotty Internet connection, I suffer from this everywhere with fair frequency (BTCTalk is actually pretty good about it, whereas I frequently have the issue with BitFinex and some other "heavier" sites).

(this all assuming that's what happened and a "bad" version was cached)

The forum seems to have some sort of rate-limiting going on that stops serving images and style sheets if you pound the server too hard, eg, by opening dozens of threads at once in separate tabs (at least that's what I'm doing that reliably causes this issue; I've no idea what sonysasankan's doing). One might expect the browser cache to be helpful here, but at least in Firefox's case, it isn't.

I do have tabs open, bit I don't think that's an issue. It was working fine till yesterday.... with way more tabs open. I can open lots of tabs on safari as well... it shows the style sheets without an issue. Was there some maintenance or updates on the code yesterday or today? That could narrow down to the issue.

What happens when you visit the stylesheet directly? https://bitcointalk.org/Themes/custom1/style.css

Nothing... I just get the fif not found page:

https://i.imgur.com/ORXBkyI.png

Tried using Ctrl+ F5 ? btw are you using latest firefox?

But the file is definitely there because its showing the CSS file in Safari. Also firefox shows another 404 error if the file is really not there (like if i change the file name to "style01.css" or something). This one is more weird.... it shows its there but not accepting it or something. I was on version 28 of firefox... updated to the latest 29.0.1 and still the same. Do you know if its just with me and in my firefox? Any others experiencing this on firefox?

Yup... did all that, logged out... removed cookies etc

Here's what the developer tools's log shows. Guess its not reading the CSS file properly.

https://i.imgur.com/te0aFgW.png

There's some cache problem. Do you use CCleaner?
If yes. Did you tried inbuilt cleaner? Tools > Options > Privacy > Cache > Clear.

You can also reset your browser
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems

If both thing doesn't works, try a clean install.

You can also try this trick.

Open about:config
Once you get into about:config, type browser.cache into the filter bar at the top. Find browser.cache.disk.enable and set it to false by double clicking on it.

Lovely!! Yup... its working. Turned it back to true and still working. Guess it needed that jump start :) Thanks man...