Firefox 18.0.2 messing up some web pages

[JD]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 03/08/2013 10:49 AM, JD wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  On 8 March 2013 16:11, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have browsed many web pages that FF does no display properly.
>>>> Text of one line gets superimposed on another.
>>>>
>>>> I do not know if it's my options settings causing this.
>>>> the add-ons or just firefox.
>>>>
>>>> Try this link
>>>>
>>>> http://**georgegrantsoundhealing.com/**GGSH/HOME.html<http://georgegrantsoundhealing.com/GGSH/HOME.html>
>>>>
>>>> The last line is two lines superimposed.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Looks fine here. Identical in Chrome and Firefox.
>>>
>>> Well, when I say "fine", the actual /contents/ of the page make me
>>> sputter in rage at the sheer charlatanry, but that is your problem not
>>> mine.
>>>
>>>
>> Thanx for the feedback,
>> However, I was not seeking any judgements or opinions of the content.
>> I was just using it as an example for the problem I was describing.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> FWIW I am on FF 19.0 and Ubuntu 12.04 and I see what you are seeing. I've
> been seeing this occasionally for some time now.  I often see it happen on
> eTrade.
>
> Regards,  Jim


I have been seeing it on several web sites, but not on most.
I did run FF in safe mode - still same problem.
I am beginning to wonder that the some web sites are developed
using Microsoft's proprietary libraries which have non-standard
encodings???
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