Upgraded 9.2 to 9.4 (I really wanted the Recent Post feature) and pleased to say the process executed without a hiccup.

The boards are fine in terms of layout, and respond to re-sizing of the browser window ok in both Firefox and IE.

However, in Firefox only, the Home page alone does not follow the browser re-sizing, and behaves as if the template was fixed width instead of a percentage. All other boards are fine.

It works fine here.  Once you dip around less than 600px width you're forum is going to start staying the same width.

I was aware of the 600 px barrier  

The effect seems to be apparent at any screen width, even at 1280x960, the Home page wants to stay something like 10-15 px larger than the browser, even though all the boards resize fine within it. Returning to the Home page after being in the boards, it still shows the effect.

I did a bit more digging and rev'd from FF 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 as a precaution.

Also tried on Win98 (my usual) and XP.

The Win98 machine stayed the same after the FF update (so might be related to the OS), with the Home page wanting to stay at full screen width.

The XP machine seemed to be cured by upping FF to 1.0.7, but when I reduce the Browser or resize it to less than full screen, although the overall forum resizes within the resized browser window, the News section near the top remains fixed at the width of the full screen display, so spills over the right hand side of the forum.

I used Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 and it worked fine.  You aren't talking about the E-Blah homepage are you (http://www.eblah.com)?  The Board Index here is fine.

No, your E-Blah homepage is fine, that's why I was surprised when mine misbehaved after the update.

Can't think of any obvious differences, since all the Code will be clean of any tweaks I'd done in 9.2, so the template or css is the most likely, and that's my problem to sort.

However, I changed the theme from my own to Platinum Winter, and the symptom remained, so I'm a little perplexed now.

Incidentally, I got feedback from a Mac user with Safari, and he reported that all the formatting flowed smoothly.

I'd have tried FF1.5 too, but had to ditch it recently, so can't at the moment.

Oh well  

What's your URL ?

On the site button

http://www.secretscotland.org.uk

It works fine here.

i see the same behavior you describe in Moz.

Once you hit the reload it goes away.... which is probably why you don't get it visiting the other pages after visiting the home page. Going back to the home page from other pages the columns resize.

Sorry to bring this one up again, but I've just noticed some further detail that probably explains why other boards didn't show this effect, and why it only appears on the Board Index.

The home page width only shows the oversize effect when the News is enabled on the Board Index.

With the News removed, the forum sizes normally within the browser.

So, it seem the effect depends on something within the News section.

That's probably a Javascript problem, or I'd guess?

Yes, the last bit of info regarding the News was obviously the important bit...

I'd had ro rollback from JRE 1.5 to 1.4 when it was initially released, as it screwed up some other apps I had installed, and forgot all about it as I've had no other problems.

Just updated to 1.5 update 5 and has fixed the News/width quirk, and as a bonus, seems to be ok with the apps that were screwed by the first 2 updates.

Once again, another successful fix, and it wasn't even anything to do with forum

Don't know if this relates to me or 9.5, but I've just done the 9.4 to 9.5 upgrade, and when I activated the News, it now seems to have 2 problems.

The width quirk mentioned (and cured) above has returned after doing the upgrade.

The News isn't showing the news text that I've entered and saved. It just scrolls the single word 'Undefined' and nothing else.

The last fix was down to me, so this probably is too, but I thought better to mention than not to.

PS
My server error log reports missing file:

blahdocs/images/move_board.gif

Just for info:

JRE updated from Ver 1.5 release 5 to release 6, no difference.

Firefox updated from 1.0.7 to 1.5, News width restored to normal behaviour.

Apologies for dredging this one up again, but I had to use the News option today, and found that my forum had returned to its behaviour of increasing its width to over 100% of the browser width when the News was displayed on the Home page.

Since I haven't been fiddling with the Forum layout, the only significant change was to the JRE, updated from Ver 1.5 as mentioned in the preceding post.

I had a look at news.js and noticed the News content width entry var swidth='100%' and suspected it just might be conflicting with the width setting of the forum in some way.

Sure enough, when I knocked the setting down as in [b]var swidth='90%'[/i] then the forum honoured its own setting of 100% in the browser window.

As confirmation, I tried setting swidth variable to greater than 100%, and the forum duly responded by increasing in width to the value set inside news.js

May be worth reducing the value in future releases.