HTML background image stops being replicated in long page

Question

This is a straight HTML (no JavaScript, no CSS) page with a tiled background image (128x128 pixel JPEG). After about 2/3 of the roughly 3,000 lines of this page the background image stops, with a smooth horizontal divide: the tiled image background above, and a white background below. The discontinuity moves up and down some while scrolling this page, but remains a clean horizontal break.
This is new behavior with Firefox 7. The background image was displayed throughout the full page with Firefox 6 and earlier.

Answer 1

Hi vestibule, the home page renders out to 42072.5px tall, and Firefox has a bug that limits backgrounds to a height of approximately 32735px tall. See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671302 Bug 671302 – cairo-gdi: large background-images and gradients don't work beyond ~ 32735px].
This bug is coming up on a year old and for some reason hasn't been fixed yet, perhaps because such long pages are relatively rare on the web. ??
Until that is resolved, to make the "transition" less jarring, you can add a matching background color (this is the closest I can come up with at the moment):
<br>body {
background-image: url(Image_Files/parchmnt.jpg);
background-color: #f8f8d4;
}