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Slow Programmer
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Everytime I try to get to the forums from the main page (http://www.thegamecreators.com) the drop-down list get hidden under the video. Is this a Firefox issue?
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Omega gamer 89
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My friend has that problem on his laptop. I don't have any problem with it, though.

If the good lord had intended us to go outside or have a social life, he wouldn't have invented the internet.
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Mr Z
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Posted: 9th Aug 2008 11:47
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I just discovered I had the problem.

Too bad you could not just turn off flash or something.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 9th Aug 2008 13:40
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IE > FF


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 9th Aug 2008 13:48
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FF burn IE.

Seriously, ever tried coding heavily in Javascript or CSS? Every two and a half minutes there has to be a if(ie) or whatever because someone screwed up. My theory is that Microsoft did this on purpose; if the browser is default on the world's most popular OS, and it is very incompatible with other browsers, web developers may tend to use IE specific material, pushing other browsers out of the arena.

ASUSTek Eee PC 701 4G Black - Celeron M @630mHz - 512Mb RAM - 32Mb Shared Intel GMA 900 - Windows XP Home SP1 - No antivirus/firewall.
And it still boots quicker than any other laptop I've seen.
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Actually, I have at my last job. A few difference with handling XML and DOM, but I've seen exceptions in code for virtually all browsers. Even FF has it's own specific code features just like MS. The only difference why nobody complains is because nobody adopted their non-standards. Every browser has its quirks, FF included.

What makes me angry with MS is they finally fixed a lot of things in IE7 but due to their new horrible UI I can't bring myself to use it. Fix one thing, break another, way to keep even MS!


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 9th Aug 2008 14:13
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Quote: "Every browser has its quirks, FF included."


Very true. Although the quirkiest browser I ever used has to be the Wii Internet Channel. You can tell it how to set up its fonts (Size, courier, serifs, the lot. In CSS or depreciated tags.) and it will completely and utterly ignore you. It's led to a lot of sites having text leak out of sidebars.

ASUSTek Eee PC 701 4G Black - Celeron M @630mHz - 512Mb RAM - 32Mb Shared Intel GMA 900 - Windows XP Home SP1 - No antivirus/firewall.
And it still boots quicker than any other laptop I've seen.
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Veron
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Posted: 9th Aug 2008 14:22
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Yeah, I get this problem under FF3 as well.


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Alucard94
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Posted: 9th Aug 2008 15:18
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Quote: "Wii Internet Channel"

That would be Opera Go get it, it's for all OS's I believe.


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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The Wii version only has one font, though, and often ignores certain settings. It is not Opera - just Opera based. Trust me; I have Opera too (for testing purposes) and even the layout engine is very different on the same sized screen. Some corners had to be cut to fit Opera into 80mb of RAM and to get it running smoothly on a fairly pathetic system.

ASUSTek Eee PC 701 4G Black - Celeron M @630mHz - 512Mb RAM - 32Mb Shared Intel GMA 900 - Windows XP Home SP1 - No antivirus/firewall.
And it still boots quicker than any other laptop I've seen.
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Posted: 9th Aug 2008 16:41
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Quote: "The Wii version only has one font, though, and often ignores certain settings. It is not Opera - just Opera based. Trust me; I have Opera too (for testing purposes) and even the layout engine is very different on the same sized screen. Some corners had to be cut to fit Opera into 80mb of RAM and to get it running smoothly on a fairly pathetic system.
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That proves how much knowledge I have on the Wii, haha


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Quote: "Some corners had to be cut to fit Opera into 80mb of RAM and to get it running smoothly on a fairly pathetic system."


You're right on the RAM limit. It's far from pathetic, though. It's an 800 Mhz PowerPC. Not that bad, in my opinion.

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Roxas
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Still Opera is fast and provides the every useful feature what you can get in Firefox only by downloading addons. So its very very user friendly. What i can say im Opera fan

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Posted: 9th Aug 2008 21:29
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i actually really like using Opera and very rarely see any display issues with it.


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Posted: 9th Aug 2008 21:49
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http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=131884&b=2
This problem is quite the nuisance.

I've never even heard of Opera lol.

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Geryon
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I think I'm the "friend with a laptop" that Omega Gamer mentioned. Yeah, that problem's there, but if you scroll down with the mouse wheel, the menu comes with you. Eventually, it won't be blocked by the video. But, if the mouse leaves the menu, you'll have to bring it up again.

Probably not the greatest fix in the world, but it works.
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I have it too bro.

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Posted: 11th Aug 2008 15:43 Edited at: 11th Aug 2008 15:48
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This happens on safari to. It makes me mad.
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Pus In Boots
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I get this everytime. I was gonna contact them about it, but I see it's quite a universal problem. Bugger, huh?


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Mr Z
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Posted: 12th Aug 2008 10:44
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Firefox 3 or Firefox 2, by the way?

Sitting with Firefox 2 now, it was no problems. When I where at my laptop, with Firefox 3, it had the problem you discribed.

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Quote: "Firefox 3 or Firefox 2, by the way?"


Firefox 3.0.1

Also, Flock (which is based on Firefox) doesn't have this problem.
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RedneckRambo
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Posted: 17th Aug 2008 01:46
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I wonder if they ever plan on fixing this lol.

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Geryon
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Quote: "I wonder if they ever plan on fixing this lol."


I don't think it requires fixing, honestly. If it's that much of a problem, Adblock Plus does the trick if one blocks the video. And barring that option (like someone wouldn't use Adblock?), I've also posted a workaround in this thread.
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Adblock doesn't fix the problem. I have adblock lol.

And yes it does require fixing, it looks very unprofessional.

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Jeku
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Posted: 17th Aug 2008 21:46
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I could be wrong but I think it's a problem with the browser. I don't recall ever having to put code in HTML for handling z-depth issues like this.


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I have a problem with firefox. It sucks. Not I'm not joking it really does suck.
It crashes on my 2 PC's
And that problem doesn't occur on IE7.
See IE7 beats firefox

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Posted: 17th Aug 2008 22:29
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No, that just means that your PC=Epic Phail....

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Quote: "See IE7 beats firefox"


Oh... My... GOD!!!!



Nah just kidding


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Jesusaurisrex
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Posted: 21st Sep 2008 19:40
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i have Firefox and get the same problem

if you call me an idiot/retard again, ill stick my finger in your mouth, and i have a really dirty finger, you don't want it in there!
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Quote: "Adblock doesn't fix the problem. I have adblock lol."


He said it works if you block out the video entirely.

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Aff, I thought this thread was about the forums being exceedingly slow recently. (Is anyone having that problem?)

Also, the original problem occurs in Google Chrome.
And: Google_Chrome > IE+FF
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I don't have anything to contribute to the topic at hand(although I do have the problem, but it's hardly a problem as the only menu blocked is the farthest right, and only a corner of it, I can't complain), but I would just like to throw it out there that this isn't a browser debate thread. Let's keep our preferences to ourselves.


http://forum.thegamecreators.com/g/banners/109.jpg <-My favorite
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