After reloading Windows 7x64 (again), http://imgur.com/iVba4Ht is what I'm seeing. WTF is this? I can't see or do [censored] here. Posting this topic was a chore and a half. Is this what mobile viewers see?

None of the themes available look like that on my machine, and I also run Win 7X64. I use the 'warrior' theme.

What browser?

you did make sure to download all the Windows updates, right?

Pale Moon. Sorry. I should have mentioned that. Let me see what Firefox does. I'll be back

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Firefox is A-OK! Nice to see them as intended

I've got the ones "Microsoft" has thrown at me (except the win 10 mess KB). I do feel like there should be more, though.

Ah. Looks like the website isn't loading completely. I've experienced similar layout issues, however, reloading the page (F5) usually fixes it. Does another browser work correctly. You can try Edge (since its already loaded with Windows ).

The forums look fine to me with Chrome. I have no experience with Pale Moon so I cannot comment on how that browser behaves.

I did try to "F5" it a few times. Even tried the old "https:\\" trick. Firefox is working well, though

Maybe it was an issue on your end when you first tried. Were you downloading/updating anything in the background since it was a fresh install.

Usually when I see that it's because something is blocking the CSS (the "document" that has information about layout and styles for the web page) from loading. For me, the culprit is security software or a rule in the packet inspection service on my firewall ("sniffs" network transactions to and from the internet looking for things that break rules and blocks the transactions when they do) more often than not. There can be any number of things keeping it from loading, though. Oftentimes, if CSS is being blocked by something then javascript files (if any) are too.

Do you have any security software installed apart from what comes with Windows 7? Does Pale Moon have security settings?

Try clearing the cache, maybe? Sometimes the css is loaded from a different site which may be having "issues", in which case it may resolve itself anyway.

That's good advice. Clearing the cache might help if the browser stopped trying to load the file(s) after the first page load. It looks like the CSS is coming from http://static.zenimax.com. I'm guessing that's a CDN. I was thinking it could be security software blocking the CSS since it's coming from a different domain. At any rate, it does appear that something is preventing the CSS from being processed. The only way to tell for sure is to poke around in the browser's development tools, but I'm not very familiar with Pale Moon. I wonder if it just uses the stock Firefox dev tools.

I get the same thing frequently with many different web pages, usually i close browser and reopen it, and thats happened at least 4 browsers, refreshing clearing the cache nothing helped, just restarting the browser, most annoying one i get is when i get black blocks across the browser, i can see some of whats on the page but whats under the black area, restarting the browser fixes it till it does it again.

Looks ok here too, IE.

*ducks the rotten tomatoes*

Very much so! I was trying to get here while updates were downloading

WOW! Never thought of that! Palemoon looks back in business now! Thanks

by "thrown at you", do you mean just the ones your PC installed itself in the background, or did you go into the Microsoft Update screen and press check for updates?


fresh install of 7.. while the exact number escapes me atm, there should be a couple hundred updates at least (unless you used install media that already contained several of them)..



just as a precaution, when you go to bed tonight, i'd advise running an update check over night just to be safe, hopefully it will detect them.. at times, I have seen fresh 7 installs run the update scan for several days straight without detecting anything, if that happens (just says "checking" indefinitely) let me know and I can link you a couple stand alone executables that should jump start it into detecting them all