Website display problem - across all browsers

Question

whenever I go to getpersonas.com or youtube the page loads like this:

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

The reason for this is because your browser is not loading the stylesheet, which is hosted on another domain. Possible reasons could be due to the stylesheet domain being blocked or because your browser is failing to get DNS resolution for it.

Try reaching getpersonas.com through a web proxy like:

http://www.zendproxy.com

If the site displays properly via proxy, then try to disable ipv6. To do that in Firefox:

1. Type about:config in the address bar, press Enter.
2. Find network.dns.disableIPv6 in the list.
3. Right-click -> Toggle.
4. Restart Firefox and try again.

You can also disable ipv6 on the system level, so other browsers don't get affected by ipv6 issues. To do that, open the file /etc/default/grub with an editor:

gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub

Then change the following line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash”

With the following line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”ipv6.disable=1 quiet splash”

Then update grub:

sudo update-grub

You can also try a different DNS server like OpenDNS or Google Public DNS.

Answer 2

It looks like you aren't loading the stylesheet. Clear your cache or hit F5.

Answer 3

Alright I finally got it working. The problem was my ISP's DNS doesn't play nice with Ubuntu. So I changed my DNS to OpenDNS and that fixed it.

Answer 4

Looks like there is a problem with the CSS file(s). Try Ctrl+F5 and/or Shift+F5 to force a reload of not only the page but the associated files.

If that doesn't work you could try clearing your cache (an option in Clear Recent History).

Answer 5

You could try to set up a new Firefox profile for testing reasons. First, make sure all instances of Firefox are closed! It might take some time for the process to end even though Firefox is not visible any more. If the commands below do not work make sure Firefox is closed by typing the following in a shell.

killall firefox-bin

Then run the Firefox Profile Manager. You can do that by entering the following command from a shell or by pressing Alt+F2 and entering it there:

firefox -profilemanager

You can setup a new profile there and try if it works with that fresh one. Be aware that the newly created profile will be set as new default. Do switch back to your original profile you have to start the profile manager again and select to start the appropriate profile.

See MozillaZine for more information on the profile manager.

If just read lovinglinux's answer and just wanted to let you know that - in case you tried to solve the issue with a new profile - you should get the same problem again, as setting up a new profile also uses the default about:config settings which are to use ipv6 by default (network.dns.disableIPv6=False). If the new profile solved your problems we have to search somewhere else for the problem. See MozillaZine for details on the option.

Answer 6

i found the problem with this but i don't know how to fix it. for example i cant go to softpedia.com for the same problem. If i click view>page source and then click the CSS stylesheet url it says that the server cannot be found. for softpedia the address that contains the css stylesheets is http://s2.softpedia-static.com/style/style.css?v=10082010a

can anyone tell me how to get firefox to make this work. It works fine on Windows 7 with firefox

Answer 7

My solution is to use the latest Opera 10 browser with Turbo Mode turned on.