Bug in 2.1.5-RELEASE GUI (edit: clear your browser cache!)

[kejianshi]

I'm seeing the same issue here.  Seems to be caused when viewing the site on laptops/computers with lower resolution screens (if you want to call 1366x768 low).  I am looking at the site on two different laptops, with same win7 OS, same chrome browser and the only difference really is that the second computer has a HD monitor with much higher screen resolution.  I think that one simple option would be to put both the help and "gold" button under the system menu.  Or maybe the web interface guru has a better idea?  I'm sure there are many ways to solve this problem.

[Ofloo]

same here, i've got 3screen desktop i've already tried pulling the browser over 3 screens it doesn't help.

tried it with firefox and chromium, .. this just pisses me off just for some advertisement link.

[slu]

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=81049.0

[itzo]

my resolusion is 1920x1080 …

[kejianshi]

I was wrong - Other than screen resolution, there was another difference.  On the laptop that is having the problem, I already had another site open in another tab before I opened pfsense admin console in a second tab.  I close all tabs, and the browser, opened the browser with only 1 tab, went directly to the pfsense admin console and the problem was gone.

So, I guess shutting down the browser and reopening it with only pfsense up did the trick for me on that laptop.

[Supermule]

Does it change when opening more tabs again??

[kejianshi]

I'll  try and see….

[slu]

@kejianshi:

So, I guess shutting down the browser and reopening it with only pfsense up did the trick for me on that laptop.

Whats your OS on the laptop?
I guess we have here two issue, one with the browser cache and one with a Linux OS.

[kejianshi]

After I shutdown and restarted the Chrome browser on windows7 pro, the issue did not reappear even if I had other tabs up first.

Its an odd issue I guess.

I can try also on my Linux machine and see what happens there, but I suspect there will be no problem.

[kejianshi]

OK - Tried this on Linux Mint using google chrome (Not chromium) and works fine.  If its a problem with linux, its not every distro or every browser.

[slu]

Can you test Firefox 31 as well?

[kejianshi]

Sure - I just did.  Works fine with firefox 31 also on linux mint.

[slu]

Thanks for testing.

Missing font problem?

[kejianshi]

No idea.  I suspect its purely a cache problem.  Like for whatever reason, your browser is holding onto data that is messing things up for you.

[slu]

Found it!

On my Debian system was some more fonts, as well the "Verdana" font.
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/ttf-mscorefonts-installer

I replace in the all.css fiel the following lines:

html, body, td, th, input, select {
    font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; <----- from
    font-size: 0.9em;
}

html, body, td, th, input, select {
    font-family: Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; <----- to
    font-size: 0.9em;
}

And it work fine!

[kejianshi]

Thats cool - But I suspect if there wasn't something weird going on with the new pfsense gui, we wouldn't have ever noticed such problems.

[slu]

The "Verdana" font does not feel well on Debian Linux  ;D
I guess the spacing is a little bit different which results in this broken gui.

[itzo]

when here is unchecked everything is OK …


[slu]

Which is in the end the similar problem.  :)

[jdillard]

@slu:

Found it!

On my Debian system was some more fonts, as well the "Verdana" font.
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/ttf-mscorefonts-installer

I replace in the all.css fiel the following lines:

html, body, td, th, input, select {
    font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; <----- from
    font-size: 0.9em;
}

html, body, td, th, input, select {
    font-family: Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; <----- to
    font-size: 0.9em;
}

And it work fine!

This is correct. Tahoma isn't included on some operating systems. Veranda is intended for "fine print" type design applications and is a wider font, thus pushing the menu out.