FireFox Vs MSIE.....

[netbuddy]

Sometime last week I emailed the choc admin to deal with an issue that I thought was server related...

ANYONE who is using the latest branch of FireFox, Version 3, in particular 3.0.4 may experience issues.

I have tried to poke Mozilla about the issue but in typical fachion, no response other than the ususal responses that I get of have you cheked... blah blah blah, well yes actually I have.... 

The attached image is a jpg screen shot of the difference between FireFox & MSIE. As you can see, under FireFox the images never show. I had the same issue with links in the your fav music thread. When I view that page in FireFox, it fails to render the page correctly and only the last two links in the list show...

First off, sorry to chocadmin for the run around, it turns out to be a faulty browser update.

This is not the only issue, on a tech side of things, the browser fails to use the HOSTS file, for most that will mean nowt but to myself, it is significant in as far as I tested out my theory bt putting in a record for Mozilla.com and gave it the IP address of Yahoo.co.uk and when requested, the Mozilla.com URL should have loaded the Yahoo.co.uk page instead... It didn't.

I also noticed that it performs way too many DNS lookups when it does not need to, this behavious was not present in version 2 of the browser.

It appears to me that FireFox are going down hill rapidly and digging a bigger hole with each browser update, some issues have not been resolved from the first release of version 3.

I also have noted that this branch f the browser also fails to load pages properly with a >60% failure rate. Often I have to hit F5 key to force the browser to go to the page, if a link fails, when I open it in a new tab, the page loads instantly ?? Failing that I have to close the browser completely and open up the page again.

This is costly for me as my ISP charges per bit in and out of the PC and you still get charged on the tarrif even if the page fails to load!!! Nice one "3", not only have you robbed me but your bending your customers over and giving them the golden rivet.

L8rz.

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[paulham]

I'm on 3.0.4 and haven't noticed the issues you mention???

[oldspice]

I haven't the faintest notion of what is being discussed. Are we talking web browsers here? If so, I think we just use Interent Explorer.

[paulham]

Sorry, Oldspice, I just read it as Inherent explorer!

[chocadmin]

No probs for me on FF 304.
What add-ons have you got netbuddy?, Also could be connection reliability/speed related. I've seen issues in the past on FF where poor connectivity means only some page elements load (something to do with the render engine choosing speed over reliability).
I haven't had many goes with FF 3.1 yet, perhaps you should give that a whirl (best web standards compatibility this side of new version of Opera). I'd suggest IE8 but it's a bit crap at the moment

[smurfboy]

I use IE at home and Firefox at work, and the only difference I've noticed is that Firefox doesn't log me out automatically.

[netbuddy]

I just have a spell checker on it because IM a lazy sod when it comes to typing, I bash it out and then use checker to correct.

Flash is installed to shut FF up moaning about it but I have that plugin disabled because I hat the stuff, for reasons I don;t want to get in to, to be brief, security & privacy concerns as well I have with it.

I use bit torrent from time to time but never when I browse, the dna plugin that the software installed is also disabled.

The operating system is winXP 2002 SPK2, I cant be assed to update it and trouble shoot the modem, I just want to use the internet and its working so I don't want to fix it if you follow. Plenty of people upgraded to SP3 and couldn't use the internet or found WGA running and faling to recognise the install was genuine and other crap like that so I gave it a wide one.

I have swapped over to MSIE for now, I will have a look at another browser that I have installed, see what that does. Here goes with having to re do all those logins and book marks!

[drterror666]

I use the latest FF and have no problems.

[meligweny]

Same Here! no problems with the latest FF

[netbuddy]

Well a friend who lives a few doors away who also uses the same version of browser is also having problems which is too much of a coincidence to deny that theirs issues.

I guess it depends on what build your Operating system is.

[scampycat]

Im using opera,had ff2 installed but it went weird and everytime it updated itself it would then refuse to open. Tried to uninstall/reinstall several times,it would work fine then do the update and stop working. Got so fed up with it! Then IE started behaving badly too...so got opera,so far so good. Have also downloaded ff3 but rarely use it,we had it before and had numerous problems with it-hence the reason we reverted to ff2-but i am happy with opera right now.

Scampy

[loulou]

This thread to me is like a cross between reading a medical dictionary and an insurance policy (neither of which i understand) so I'll sit here quietly and smile as you all look so intelligent

[paulham]

Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed.

The flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people's computers and steal their passwords, internet experts say.

Microsoft urged people to be vigilant while it investigated and prepared an emergency patch to resolve it.

Internet Explorer is used by the vast majority of the world's computer users.

   
"Microsoft is continuing its investigation of public reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer," said the firm in a security advisory alert about the flaw.

Microsoft says it has detected attacks against IE 7.0 but said the "underlying vulnerability" was present in all versions of the browser.

Other browsers, such as Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, are not vulnerable to the flaw Microsoft has identified.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7784908.stm

Firefox for me since version 3 came on line.

[Forth Bridges]

Same here, NEVER did like the IE

[drterror666]

Microsoft will lose a few more IE users over this.  FF3 rocks anyway!