Odd problem with Firefox [solved]

[beckfield]

I'm having an odd problem that just began this morning. Please forgive if this is the wrong place to post. I initially thought it was a Firefox problem, but Konqueror is having the problem as well, so here I am. If there's a better place, please let me know.

I have a website for my photography hobby. The URL is www.kendietz.com. I have it set as my home page in Firefox, and it has been working, unmodified, for months. This morning when I launched Firefox on my main system (I have two), Firefox could not load my home page, reporting that there was a missing </img> tag in my xsl stylesheet. I immediately checked the online file, and the tag is present. Actually, the <img> tag has a closing "/". Here's the actual line:

<a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator" title="Valid CSS!"><img src="vcss.gif" height="31" width="88" title="CSS Badge" alt="valid CSS badge" /></a>

Firefox thinks the line is:

<a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator" title="Valid CSS!"><img src="http://config.privoxy.org/send-banner?type=auto" border="0" title="Killed-vcss.gif-by-size" width="88" height="31"></a>

Konqueror also does not display the page properly, but I can't swear that it ever did. I don't know how well Konqueror supports xsl.

I have done the following:
1. Thinking a random file corruption had occurred, I replaced the file with my local copy.
2. Edited the file and re-typed the line, replacing the original line.
3. Installed IceApe, Galeon, and Epiphany web browsers via Adept. All these browsers display the website correctly.
4. Switched to my second computer and launched Firefox. It displays the website correctly.
5. Uninstalled and re-installed Firefox. Problem persists.
6. Uninstalled and re-installed Konqueror, including kmplayer-konq-plugins, konq-plugins, konqueror-nsplugins, kubuntu-desktop, and kubuntu-konqueror-shortcuts.

I can only conclude that some component that is used by Firefox has been damaged or lost. As a fairly recent Linux convert, and not a programmer, I have exhausted my troubleshooting ideas.

Any advice is appreciated.

[Snowhog]

Re: Odd problem with Firefox

Actually, the <img> tag has a closing "/". Here's the actual line:

<a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator" title="Valid CSS!"><img src="vcss.gif" height="31" width="88" title="CSS Badge" alt="valid CSS badge" /></a>

The above html syntax is not correct. Try the following:

<a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator" title="Valid CSS!"><img src="vcss.gif" height="31" width="88" title="CSS Badge" alt="valid CSS badge"></a>

[beckfield]

Re: Odd problem with Firefox

The above html syntax is not correct. Try the following:

<a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator" title="Valid CSS!"><img src="vcss.gif" height="31" width="88" title="CSS Badge" alt="valid CSS badge"></a>

Thanks for your reply, Snowhog.

Actually, my code is correct xhtml. My website uses XML and XSLT, so my syntax must follow the XHTML standard. In xhtml, all tags must have a closing tag, even ones that, in html, may not, like <li>. This must either be a full closing tag (</img>) or, if there is no text between the opening and closing tag, as in this case, the opening tag may conclude with a "/", as I have done.

As I said, the website has been working for a very long time. It is only experiencing a problem on one computer. I am certain the problem is on my system, not the website.

[beckfield]

Re: Odd problem with Firefox [solved]

Quit looking, I found it.

A second pair of eyes noticed the reference to privoxy in that line. I completely forgot about messing around with privoxy a few days ago. I forgot it so well that I didn't even recognize the name. It's an ad-blocking proxy, and it was causing the problem.

Mischief managed!