Weird jumping behaviour in Firefox for Linux

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Maugrim_The_Reaper
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Weird jumping behaviour in Firefox for Linux

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Hi folks.

Since one of my hobbies is game programming I mocked up a small website for one of my game projects. The site works fine on Firefox under Windows (don't mention IE since I'm compiling three fixes for its problems later). However I've noticed that under Linux (Ubuntu for me) Firefox exhibits an odd behaviour. On its first (and its only the first attempt for each new browser session - a reload fixes) the left menu seems to jump up and partly cover the header logo. This jumping behaviour does not appear on Windows.

Just want to make sure I'm not going insane or anything, and check if its just my installation of Firefox on Linux acting up. Using 1.5 at the moment.

http://quantum-star.com/devsite/
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Post by matthijs »

I see it in Mozilla 1.7.12 win xp as well. Not in FF 1.5 though.

[edit:]
about the min-height stuff:
2. "min-height" element in CSS2 does not appear to work under IE - UNRESOLVED

a good solution for IE is http://manisheriar.com/blog/better-way- ... -something
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Post by matthijs »

And about the strange shifting problem: have you tried setting a fixed height for the header (pageheader_primary_container) and giving pageleft_primary_container a absolute position the same as that height? Haven't tested it here, it's just an idea.

Or use floats, as this kind of layouts is very easy and consistent with floats (sub {float:left;width: 200px;} main {margin-left:210px;} )
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Will check into to suggested solutions. Thanks for the help!
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