Firefox troubles

[virtual]

All of a sudden today Firefox 3.5.3 on my big MAC is having a tantrum! It is not rendering the CSS styling properly, ul li tags are not indented, p tags don't have any padding. This is only happening on my desk Mac, the same Firefox on the laptop is working normally.

 

Does anyone have any idea what's going on? Short of deleting it and reinstalling, is there anything else I can do?

[jlhaslip]

Try the Firebug add-on to inspect the CSS. Ensure there is nothing wacky in it.

 

*backup your bookmarks before deleting if you go that route*

[virtual]

There's nothing wrong with the css, it's happening to any site, which all render normally in all the other browsers I have.

[jlhaslip]

Find and replace the Browser's Chrome Default CSS file on the big machine. It will be in the Profile folder (I think).

[virtual]

All fixed, I rebooted and Firefox started behaving normally. I have no idea what happened there, it was really weird, the only thing that I changed since yesterday is an update of VMware and I was running it when Firefox went AWOL. Funnily enough when I run VMware I cannot eject/open my CD/DVD drive either, so there must be some conflict there.

 

Any Mac user experience anything similar?

[falkencreative]

when I run VMware I cannot eject/open my CD/DVD drive either

 

Depends how you have your virtual machine set up. If you have it set up so that your virtual machine has access to your CD drive (check the CD/DVD preferences for your virtual machine, or the "CD" icon in the bottom right of the VMware window will be blue, rathr than gray) you won't be able to access it via your Mac -- only through the virtual machine. I usually leave it disconnected, and only connect the CD drive if I need something.

[virtual]

Thanks Ben. Normally I don't have anything connected to the PC side, I only use it for browser testing. But I will look into it.