Firefox question

[Maui Nick]

It did. It's full-featured for about 1998 and several browsers --- most notably Firefox, Safari and Camino --- have leapfrogged it.

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

What are the limitations of using it over IE?

Some pages do not render as you would expect under FF compared to IE, thanks to IE's broken HTML and CSS rendering. (developers had to code around these bugs)

More fun: they might still render "correctly" under IE6, but the bugs were fixed in IE7, forcing developers to correct their code. My company actively blocks IE7 because of this and still has plenty of catching up to do.

[BrianR]

The problem seems to have solved itself. Else some update since has fixed the problem on their end. I haven't done anything since the reinstall.

I hate when this happens.

[BrianR]

OK. I figured out the problem. It wasn't Firefox at all, but Zone Alarm.

It seems there is a bug in version 3 that corrupted the database. When I checked WHICH Firefox was permitted to run, it was v 1.8.x.x

The new version doesn't come up at all. Trying to delete the .RDB files was impossible so I uninstalled and reinstalled the firewall. I found the references I needed to track the problem down at the Mozilla website. Helpful place, that. I must visit there more often!

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Firefox is compatible with just about everything these days. It used to be that 10% of websites would trip it up, and then 5%; these days it's less than 1%. So it has outgrown its reputation.

I think I mentioned in another thread that up until a year (or less) ago Amazon did not like Firefox at all, with me having to hit the reload button multiple times to get a page to load (and yes I did wait more than a few seconds).

Im very happy with it, and now that the laptop has Linux, I can have the same browser on both.