[Mediawiki-l] Old MW installations' Monobook skin breaking in Firefox 9

[David Gerard]

So this morning I was greeted with Firefox 9. Trouble is, a couple of
our internal wikis run old versions (1.13 and 1.15) and ... old
Monobook appears to be broken by FF9. The sidebar appears only after
the page content, leaving a large empty space between the wiki logo
and the sidebar.

Screenshot of the problem on our tech wiki: http://oi42.tinypic.com/35lbz7o.jpg

This is only broken in FF9 - it's fine in current Chrome stable, for example.

Any ideas where we'd go into Monobook to fix this? Wikipedia with
"useskin=monobook" is not broken in the same manner.

(I realise the actual answer is "upgrade those ancient MediaWikis
already". But the 1.15 is a somewhat fragile combination of MediaWiki,
Semantic MediaWiki and customisations ...)


- d.