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xCept
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Posted: 22nd Apr 2005 12:38 Edited at: 22nd Apr 2005 12:39
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Hi,

I use Firefox 99% of the time, but I find that I have to switch to Internet Explorer when surfing this forum if I wish to read the text in the 'code' boxes. Otherwise, the font is just completely scrambled and impossible to read. Here, have a look:



So my question is, am I the only one experiencing this problem with Firefox? Can anyone help me out with this? Thanks in advance! (Using FIrefox 1.0)
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I am using Firefox 1.0.3 for Windows, and it works perfectly fine. Maybe upgrade?

http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-1.0.3&os=win&lang=en-US

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Quote: "So my question is, am I the only one experiencing this problem with Firefox?"

Yes.


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Quote: "So my question is, am I the only one experiencing this problem with Firefox?"


no, the somputers at my uni do this as well. dunno why though



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solution: get a real web browser

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Posted: 22nd Apr 2005 15:34 Edited at: 22nd Apr 2005 15:35
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check out the fonts you have selected to display particular parts of the page.

firefox / tools / options / general / fonts and colours

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I'm hoping that with cherryOS i'll be able to use safari

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xCept, I have to change my default fonts all the time in order for it to display firefox codeboxes... even then it doesn't display them correctly.

There are a number of issues with FireFox on the whole, particularly with the CSS side of things.

The problems aren't with FireFox itself, but the design of the forum... because FireFox displays things exactly according to the standards. I don't use it much though because I don't like it.

Ironically I can't actually get my own website to work in Explorer which I do use.
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It's the font and the font sizes that causes it, selecting the code and copying it to notepad will solve it.

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Quote: "The Firefox open source browser is full of bugs, some of which are rather serious. "


-technology analyst Bill Thompson.

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Source of that quote please

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Quote: " solution: get a real web browser"


Like Internet Explorer? *coughs* *laughs histerically*

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Quote: "Quote: "The Firefox open source browser is full of bugs, some of which are rather serious. "

-technology analyst Bill Thompson. "

Is that the same Bill Thompson who has a "Get Firefox" button at the bottom of his homepage?

http://www.andfinally.com


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I never said the quote was from some sort of Firefox bashing article

Its just that on the BBC he openly admitted that FF has has many bugs as IE, and a few of them are serious:



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Mumbo Jumbo, GO FIREFOX!

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That guy was is favour of Firefox

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That part is mumbo jumbo

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xCept, just go inside the options and turn "use my fonts" on.

extra -> options -> fonts & colors...

If you haven't changed the fonts you can just turn it on, otherwise you'll have to make sure to pick the right fonts. Btw, you might have to turn it on multiple times (firefox sometimes turns it off when you leave the options screen).


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I hate IE and its stability issues. But what good is firefox's stability if its not as compatible? Plus is slow as hell.

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Quote: "if its not as compatible?"


Compatible with what? I haven't run into a single thing its not compatible with yet. Me thinks people just use it wrong and screw it all up, but who knows.

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Click anwhere on the page, press CTRL and scroll down with the mouse wheel.

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FireFox is compatible with the HTML 4.0 & XHTML 1.1 Internet Standards.
.. it's just a shame the internet isn't

If you follow the Internet Browser sites about the vunerablities, you'll have noticed in the last year there have been more problems found with Mozilla (and some specific to FireFox) than were found with Internet Explorer.

We're talking bugs and vunerabilities, not compliancy to standards.
One comment on one of the anaylst sites summed it up quite well,

"Explorer know to be fully of more holes that cheese that the swiss make, but at least it lets you know when it's being attacked. Even if it isn't going to do anything about it."

It takes Microsoft longer to fix bugs, but they do produce more bug fixes every week than any other developer. They also have been correcting bugs for years, not months.

Really it's just a matter of 'there are only so many bugs', so it's just through process of elimination really that we're getting something more stable to work with.

Similar with Dark Basic Professional really... we all know it has it flaws but each patch does get us closer to that ever illusive stable patch.
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Quote: " Click anwhere on the page, press CTRL and scroll down with the mouse wheel."


I am the only person worldwide without a mousewheel But i know what ctrl does...so how does this cause a problem, just selects all the tables?

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It changes the text size. WOoooah.


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Quote: " It changes the text size. WOoooah."

Oh yea, this is not a bug...and there is a fix for it.


FIX:


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View > Text Size >

Does the same job.. for those without the luxury of a scroll wheel and wondering how to put it back to normal.

Oh and change the text size scrolling up (smaller) because it takes less steps.
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no one said it was a bug.

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luxury? I dont even think you can buy a mouse without a scroll wheel anymore.

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Quote: "It changes the text size. WOoooah."


I rather like that feature... And it's available in IE as well x_x


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odd, I never saw it in IE... I like the Opera version more, it changes image sizes too.

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Ye, I rather like the way firefox and others zoom in..

Unfortunately IE only resizes the text when the text is defined as "small", "x-small" etc rather than a set pixel size.

That's why I design my pages with the first method, so that the text can be resizable for those who like larger (or smaller) text.


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i love firefox and now get hardly any spyware or viruses as i did when i was using ie and infact i used ie for just some quick browsing and voila i got a virus what else is new...

the only thing i wish they would fix is that dang css cause i miss my blue and red scrollbars on my website

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I wish all browsers would just comply with standards and add NOTHING extra. This way website would be SO much easier to design.

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Quote: "i love firefox and now get hardly any spyware or viruses as i did when i was using ie and infact i used ie for just some quick browsing and voila i got a virus what else is new..."


I still cant uinderstand that when people say that. I've NEVER got a virus off IE, ever. What on earth are you doing to it? Running Win 95 with no firewall and downloading russian mp3s?

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hmm activex is the same as running an exe
hwo do u think windows u0pdate can be browser based

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Quote: "hmm activex is the same as running an exe"


Oh dear. Not quite.

It's true, an activex control can execute vb code, but only if its installed on your machine. That's why if you go to the windows verification whatnot page it says "Do you want to download...". They're not some dodgy thing that could erase your whole HD just by viewing a page.

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no it dont...
it says do u want to allow this certificate or something like that
it asks for no download

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Quote: "I've NEVER got a virus off IE, ever. What on earth are you doing to it? Running Win 95 with no firewall and downloading russian mp3s?"

Well yes actually.....(no really)...but there is no way in hell you can tell me you've never had spyware.....

Phaelax said that FF was slow last page...wtf are you on, it appears faster with some pages and appears slower with others, it depends on the page because they display with different methods to IE (displaying while loading or waiting till it's all loaded etc)

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Like DavidT, I have never received dodgy spyware programs either, unless I downloaded and installed software that had it included (i.e. LimeWire). Spyware for the most part doesn't just appear as a result of IE. You have to click to accept, or you have to Agree to the TOS before installing dodgy programs that are bundled with spyware.


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Quote: "Well yes actually.....(no really)...but there is no way in hell you can tell me you've never had spyware....."


I have had spyware, just from, like Jeku says, installing apps that have it.

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