Comments on: Firefox 0.9 Available

By: Dean Esmay

Dean Esmay — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Hmm, interesting, which ones? It works fine for all the blogs I read, and I scan quite a few each week.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

For some reason, several blogs using CSS tend not to render well for me in Mozilla. Q and O and Lt. Smash come to mind because they do it regularly, although others do it from time to time.

By: Skillzy

Skillzy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Wha?!? I thought you tried Firefox and didn't like it a while back. Glad to see you're a believer. Because Firefox (and Mozilla) are strictly standards based, and Internet Explorer is standards based, except where Microsoft feels like doing their own thing, pages can render a little differently. And since most people view/check their layouts in IE, sometimes Mozilla issues go unnoticed. It's usually not a huge deal to fix, just an errant table tag or two somewhere will mess things up.

The only place I use IE anymore is for custom app web pages, like we have here at work.

By: Jim Henley

Jim Henley — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

James: I was having trouble with the rendering of several different Blogspot templates. Also, Drum's site sometimes had way too much margin on the left. In each case I ended up having good results by clicking Reload. Citizen Smash actually loads fine for me, so I don't know if this fix will solve your specific problems, but it's worth a try.

By: BigFire

BigFire — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

There has been a major change in how theme and extensions are being handled in 0.9. Older extension need to be either re-written or repackaged

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Jim: I've done the reload thing with mixed results. Matt Yglesias' site does that to me as well sometimes.

Skillzy: The tabbed thing grew on me and there are extensions that create workarounds for some of the problems I was having.

BigFire: That makes sense. It's a mild annoyance but I suppose better than doing the Microsoft thing and making things buggy forward in order to provide backward compatibility.

By: Neil Parks

Neil Parks — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I've been a big fan of Firefox (and its predecessors Phoenix and Firebird) for a long time. (Recently they decided to quit naming it after old Pontiacs.) :-)

I'm glad you like it too.

For those annoying pages that are so poorly designed that only MSIE can view them, try the IE View extension. Just right click and you'll get a menu option to view the page in IE.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Oooo... I'll have to grab that extension. There's some sites that I visit that use IE-specific scripts for logins and such.

By: Zygote-Design

Zygote-Design — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

So close to 1.0
Firefox released version .9 today and I'm playing with it on my Mac. Still doesn't seem to present a compelling reason to abandon Safari at this point on the OS X side, but when I get home to my Winboxen I'll run the upgrade for sure.

Hat t...

By: adot's notblog*

adot's notblog* — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

firefox 0.9
You know you want it. You can read about it at the Firefox 0.9 press release, the mozillaZine Firefox 0.9 article, and the newly revamped Firefox product page. update: Parker Morse, over at Flashes of Panic, has renewed his offer to help anyone experie...

By: hard times

hard times — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Pounds of Prevention, Part 3
OK, so you read Part 2 and now your Windows is all up to date and protected by the latest anti-virus software and definitions. Feel safer already, don't ya? Today we'll cover two more layers of defense that can assist you in your battle against...

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