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 Post subject: Firefox 9.0.1 incompatibility
PostPosted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:32 pm 
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After upgrading from Firefox 8.0 to Firefox 9.0.1 (Windows 7), the left navigation pane of the wiki is now broken - it now appears below the main content on the left hand side still.


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 Post subject: Re: Firefox 9.0.1 incompatibility
PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 12:50 am 
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That's a workaround, not a solution. It's probably time for chase to do a MediaWiki update...

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 Post subject: Re: Firefox 9.0.1 incompatibility
PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:11 am 
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Looks like a known problem:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux. ... ral/897374

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 Post subject: Re: Firefox 9.0.1 incompatibility
PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 1:18 pm 
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Confirmed. Same problem when browsing the wiki with my Android smartphone.

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 Post subject: Re: Firefox 9.0.1 incompatibility
PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 11:17 pm 
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special: ... Wiki/53348

I've commented out the is_khtml var. Works for me in FF 9.0.1 now. Let me know if anyone has additional problems with this.


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 Post subject: Re: Firefox 9.0.1 incompatibility
PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 11:50 pm 
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Love4Boobies wrote:
That's a workaround, not a solution. It's probably time for chase to do a MediaWiki update...


With Firefox now being the piece of crap that it is, I think switching to something sane like Chrome isn't just a workaround, it's a solution. :D


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 Post subject: Re: Firefox 9.0.1 incompatibility
PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:00 am 
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With Firefox now being the piece of crap that it is, I think switching to something sane like Chrome isn't just a workaround, it's a solution. :D


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You should know as well as anybody, quok, that choice of browser is just like a choice in OS or text editor (very personal).

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 Post subject: Re: Firefox 9.0.1 incompatibility
PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:35 am 
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To be fair, I don't like Chrome because it has a history of displaying many web pages wrong. I don't know whether the issues have been fixed and if so to what extent because I haven't used it in a very long time but here are a couple of websites I remember having problems with:

http://www.t13.org/ --- The most recent version of Chrome I used* didn't display the menu properly; older one rendered the page unreadable.
http://tftpd32.jounin.net/ --- Unreadable even in the most recent version of Chrome that I tried*.

* This was some months ago.

EDIT: Tested with 9.01 and it works for me too. Thanks.

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 Post subject: Re: Firefox 9.0.1 incompatibility
PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:56 am 
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Hi,

[quote="Love4Boobies"I remember having problems with:

http://www.t13.org/ --- The most recent version of Chrome I used* didn't display the menu properly; older one rendered the page unreadable.
http://tftpd32.jounin.net/ --- Unreadable even in the most recent version of Chrome that I tried*.[/quote]

Both seem perfectly fine to me, on the latest version of Chrome.

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 Post subject: Re: Firefox 9.0.1 incompatibility
PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 3:43 am 
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Ok, so I gave the latest version a shot...

First impression: It wouldn't start without me having manually interfere.

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Second impression: The T13 website worked. The TFTPD website was not rendered correctly. I also uploaded a screenshot of what Firefox renders but in lower-quality JPEG becase of the forum's file size limit---the difference in size is caused by the fact that the Chrome version has a lot of contiguous green due to the content being placed in an area below my capture. The menu on the left is also messed up.

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This is reflected by countless websites I just tried (I can provide a list if you still don't believe me but I think I've made my case). Anyway, you may be happy with it but it's the last time I ever give Chrome a shot.

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 Post subject: Re: Firefox 9.0.1 incompatibility
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http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http% ... jounin.net

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 Post subject: Re: Firefox 9.0.1 incompatibility
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I realize that the site is buggy but that doesn't really mean anything. As a user, I'm obviously going to pick the browser that gives me the best experience regardless of how web pages are written. It's just like having an OS that runs applications in kernel mode and constantly crashes because of them, but blaming the programs. What do I care who's fault it is?

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