Firefox refresh problem leading to overlapping tiddlers

[JeremyRuston]

As  discussed here, Firefox contains a bug that corrupts the display under certain circumstances. Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to  http://www.tiddlywiki.com
2. Open up options
3. Uncheck EnableAnimations?
4. Click "view" on GettingStarted
5. Close Raves

[UdoBorkowski]

Fix:

in Story.prototype.closeTiddler replace

---

        else
            tiddlerElem.parentNode.removeChild(tiddlerElem);

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by

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        else 
            {
            //# see Ticket #301
            tiddlerElem.style.overflow = "hidden";
            setTimeout(function(){tiddlerElem.parentNode.removeChild(tiddlerElem)},0);
            }

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[UdoBorkowski]

Patch to fix this ticket

[UdoBorkowski]

Some discussion with EricShulman? improved the suggested fix to make it more compatible with older versions of TiddlyWiki.

The final solution is attached as a patch, ready to be applied on the TiddlyWiki source code.

Many thanks again to Eric for his contribution.

[f7o7]

 Tiddly Tools is patched, but still has the issue. Details are in my  last post in the discussion.

[JeremyRuston]

Although the underlying bug is annoying, I think that this solution isn't acceptable because it fundamentally changes the semantics of one of the core APIs (making tiddler closure be an asynchronous operation), which isn't justified as a cost of fixing the underlying problem.