Happened in IE8 only; After having added more content to the Panel Front Page (used to work fine before) css breaks entirely with "rounded corner" style, breaks partially with no style.

May be related to Marinelli theme but in conjunction with Panels.

Tried every cache combination as proposed in similar issues, no change.

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spazfox
Location Olympia, WA
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I was having a similar problem (not sure if it was related to Panels or not, but I do use panels with "rounded corner" style on my front page, as well) until I learned that IE8 can only process a limited number of individual CSS style sheets (31, I believe) for a given page. When I looked at my theme and considered all of the contrib modules I have with their own style sheets, I figured this was my problem. So I went to admin -> settings -> performance and enabled "Optimize CSS files" and that did the trick!

The IE CSS limitation is described a bit more here:

If the "Optimize CSS files" setting doesn't work for you, you could also try using the CSS Gzip or Boost modules.

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bitsman commented

Thanks spazfox. I was driven to the same conclusion about IE8 and css but the problem is that my download method is set to private and css aggregation won't work. See this: http://drupal.org/node/505132

Same problem with CSS Gzip. Boost doesn't mention that the file system should be set to private but it makes sense that it should be like that since css files should be accessible as if the download method was set to public.
Will do some more research to find a consistent workaround.

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bitsman commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Update: this was definitively caused by the 31 css IE8 limit. Panels are not in cause (but together with ctools they have added 3 css files in addition to the 4 css files added by the Marinelli theme).
One good solution could be this one:

http://drupal.org/project/unlimited_css

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nravens commented
Component: Display rendering » Code

This worked for me. I had an issue where my panels wasn't displaying properly(as in the css wasn't loading) in IE8 and page load time was extremely long. I installed this module and all is fixed... Thanks!

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sunil_gulati commented

Thanks spazfox !
Your solution worked and saved me a lot of headache :)