Wikisource page error.
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	Ineuw
	May 13 2022, 12:30 AM

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using Linux mint, I looked at the page https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Ineuw/Sandbox9 and everything was properly centered.
Then, I opened and, purged, + hard purged + null edited this page: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Africa_by_%C3%89lis%C3%A9e_Reclus,_Volume_3.djvu

What happens?:

On reopening https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Ineuw/Sandbox9 page, the navigator and text margins have shifted to the right.

What should have happened instead?:

Remain centered as before the purge action

Software version (if not a Wikimedia wiki), browser information, screenshots, other information, etc.:

O.S: Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.3 - Browser: Firefox 99.0.1 standard version.
This only happens in Linux, but not in Windows 10.
It does not happen in Vivaldi in either Linux or Windows.
I posted this first on https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/10776,where they claimed they have nothing to do with it. Although their version of FF is modified by Linux Mint.

sandboxes navigator.jpg (864×1 px, 124 KB)

linux_mint_firefox_sandbox_9 after purge.jpg (864×1 px, 132 KB)

windows_firefox_sandbox_9 after purge.jpg (864×1 px, 133 KB)

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Ineuw created this task.May 13 2022, 12:30 AM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptMay 13 2022, 12:30 AM

Hi, if there has not been any edit in the meantime and your browser or system magically decides to re-render already open websites there's not much that the website itself can do. :) This sounds like a support request instead.

For the records, things here in Firefox 100 look like F35137224 and that's also what I'd expect.

You are assuming and pontificating. I happen to look at the sandbox9 occasionally if it is still aligned, but I closed it before purging the djvu page. Then, I reopened it on a hunch. If you would have taken the trouble to check the other closed sandboxes, you may have noticed that all of them are off. Shall I send you more photos?

2022-05-14 03-27-11-sandbox5.jpg (936×1 px, 207 KB)

just another. What bothers me the most is that your reaction is 100% predictable. You have a comment or an issue with everything I report. At times I am wrong, but at times I am right.

In T308299#7928785, @Ineuw wrote:

Shall I send you more photos?

More photos won't help. :) You may want to check if this happens in safemode, and when this happens it would help if you checked in the browser's Developer Tools > Inspector (or via Inspect in the context menu) why this happens in your browser and bring this up in a support forum.
I'm not challenging that this happens in your browser. I'm saying that this is very unlikely to be an issue in server-side deployed code so it's out of scope for Phabricator.

Thanks for the reply, it's much appreciated. So far the problem is corrected FF v100+, as you mentioned. Posting here was my last resort, because this offset became an issue with an earlier version using the Linux Mint Edition of Firefox. https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/10776.

Since v100, I no longer use their installation but installed a generic copy from the FF repository in /opt.

From lessons learned from my earlier posts about asking for technical support, did a very thorough step by step assessment, over several weeks.

Asked in Wikisource Scriptorium, users Linux and Firefox.
Cleared my vector.css file and tested it.
Checked it Linux Vivaldi (my goto Chrome browser of choice) and it was OK.
In Safe mode was the same.
Rebuilt profile or a new profile helped for a day or so, then it reverted again.
Tested it in Windows 10 and it was OK.

All of the above pointed to the Linux Mint modified version of Firefox. I voiced my complaints several times previously to Linux Mint on Github, in Bugzilla, and in Mozillazine.

I pointed out that Linux Mint should not be permitted to use the generic Firefox label and logo because they modify the generic version and broke the rules by ignoring the /etc/firefox/policies/policies.json. https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/10359.

(Setting status back to invalid per https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Bug_report_life_cycle as nothing got resolved via a change in Wikimedia code.)

I found the issue that caused this problem and wanted to bring it to your attention. The main namespace display style control also appears in the user's namespace. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/File:User_ineuw_sandbox1.jpg.

I was also advised not to use the word "Sandbox" https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Ineuw/notes9

I'm afraid we don't know where that "Layout 1", "Use serif fonts", etc stuff comes from, maybe you know?

	F35139926: 2022-05-14 03-27-11-sandbox5.jpg
	May 14 2022, 7:30 AM

	F35137223: linux_mint_firefox_sandbox_9 after purge.jpg
	May 13 2022, 12:30 AM

	F35137224: windows_firefox_sandbox_9 after purge.jpg
	May 13 2022, 12:30 AM

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