OT Firefox problems

[Hairglamfan]

I've now moved over to Firefox thanks to the pevious advice on the Board and find it much faster.

However I find that sometimes images don't load properly, my avatar and occassionally Joni's appears at the top of threads and generally graphics on some sites don't work. Anyone else find this or know how to rectify it with Firefox or am I just an isolated case?

[creeper2]

firefox will not always display webpages they way they are meant to be displayed. just as Microsoft Windows is the OS of choice and that is why the majority of applications are programmed to run on Windows as compared to Open BSD, Unix, Linux, Solaris, blah blah blah, Microsoft's Internet Explorer is the browser of choice and the majority of webpages are coded to be compatibly with IE and not necessarily firefox, netscape navigator, opera, blah blah blah. certain HTML tags that are used for IE are not recognized by netscape/firefox/opera and in turn there are HTML tags the IE can not recognize as well. when web developers go about coding their pages then can either do a ?check browser? then ?if? then ?do? or they can just code to the market majority, which at this moment is still IE. i think the numbers are around %85/90 IE to %15/10 ?other browsers? which would include firefox/netscape/aol/opera/mozilla/blah blah blah.

so you see, as much as firefox is the hot thing to do right now (as was opera a few years back) it is going to take a something monumental such as microsoft losing ground in the desktop OS field (which is unlikely) for IE to lose it?s grip on the market.

[Sandy-Hazard]

Although I agree with you on some points Bill, here are few other points. The reason some sites appear funky or display weird in Firefox is due to people coding to IE standards. IE violates many of the Internet coding standards. So that is the real reason pages do not display properly, is that not correct?

Remember when Netscape had about 80-90% of market share?....Look what happened. Although MS is a giant, they can get too self assured and complacent. People only put up with so much crap for so long IE:Spyware

Firefox has only been distributed, since I believe November and has 22 Million downloads and has taken 5% percent of the browser market in that time. Not shabby, and mostly do to a word of mouth grass roots kind of campaign. I used to be an avid Netscape user until AOL took them over and made it into bloatware. It'll be interesting to see what transpires over the next year. MS totally fell behind on the search engine market and MP3 market. Personally I'd rather see them focus on Operating systems that don't need 200+ patches after they're released.

On that note, here's a link to some FF questions Hairglamfan

http://www.mozilla.org/support/

[creeper2]

i totally agree with you. i was in no way sticking up for microsoft or IE in anyway. i was just stating that most pages are coded with one browser in mind and that browser is IE, like it or not.

with IE integrated into Windows, and windows coming on upwards to %95 of the desktops sold, it is going to be hard for a third party browser to take over the market. sure people like you and I and most everyone else on this board will eventually switch over, or at least try a new browser, but the common PC user, the person who goes to best buy to buy a computer so they can email their relatives on the other side of the country will just us IE being that it is already install on the machine to begin with. Another issue with browsers is support. Call your local bank with whom you do online banking with a problem. the first question they will ask is 'what operation system and what browser are you using?'

first thing mozilla needs to do is to make sure firefox remains a free download. that killed opera in it's tracks. next, they need to somehow do some mass marketing, a few ads stating all the benifits of firefox over IE so that the 'less conected' user will be brought in. if anything, hopefully firefox will be a kick in the ass to microsoft and they will realize that they can not keep pushing out software with major flaws and security holes in it.

[deviantdee]

I don't think the death of IE is a questionable
issue anymore. Service pack 2; ineffective fire-
walls; IE's leaky holes; spyware and adware [I
fucking loathe you, iSearch!] will see to that.
Good. And the quicker IE is removed from OS X
the better, too.

Also - giving the climate of fear politicans
and corporations are only to happy to insist
we live in - like the sudden spurtage of spu-
rious anti-Y2K companies, lots of anti-spyware
companies are now insisting we need their help.
We don't. We just need one good one. XP and
Microsoft's new so-called 'beta' bollox is of
no use, of course. System Mechanic Pro is good.

D.


<font color="#FF0000" size="1">[ February 14, 2005 04:23 PM: Message edited by: Deviant D ]</font>

[Sandy-Hazard]

Thankfully my bank is FF compliant.

Possibly the best FF extension yet.....Hilarious!

Abe Vigoda Status Extension

Hey D.

I've found Adaware/Spybot/MS Antispyware all have their pros and cons. I did find that the MS one sometimes can remove things a little more efficiently than the other two. Never used system mechanic. I've found since using FF, I haven't had any spyware dumped on my PC.

[Sandy-Hazard]

Thankfully my bank is FF compliant.

Possibly the best FF extension yet.....Hilarious!

Abe Vigoda Status Extension

Hey D.

I've found Adaware/Spybot/MS Antispyware all have their pros and cons. I did find that the MS one sometimes can remove things a little more efficiently than the other two. Never used system mechanic. I've found since using FF, I haven't had any spyware dumped on my PC.