Is Firefox now my Internet Explorer?
The funny thing about fanboys are their ability to ignore the bad news… but get this – Firefox is giving me more grief at the moment than Internet Explorer. I mean, what the fuck is going on at Mozilla lately?
First there’s the increasingly slower browsing experience, as Matt noted in Is Firefox Losing its Focus?… which makes me wonder what ever happened to the idea that a faster browser was a better browser?
Second, Firefox has been crashing at ten minute intervals all week on my system. As a user I don’t really give a damn why its doing that… its doing that because its not the best browser anymore. I reinstalled Firefox but it continues to crash.
Third, after reading Matt’s post where he mentioned the speed improvements offered by the latest Firefox update – well, I got ahead of myself. The update has somehow taken over the stylesheets of this website and practically every piece of text except for the first paragraph of articles and pages is now bold. Oh thanks, Mr Firefox. Spec-fucking-tacular.
Which begs the bastard point of this bastard situation (and I’ll bold it for everybody not just Firefox 3.6 users) – Is Firefox now my Internet Explorer?
I ask that question because time is money and Firefox costing me money (and time) is no different than Microsoft’s inherent bugs. No, none of the other sites I’ve worked on have this issue… what can I say? I had a persona enabled for a little while after the update and that may have done something askew… but as its disabled and the bolding remains then there is an issue… right? And even if this was somehow partly related to the persona – why the fuck have personas? Either way its Firefox’s intrusion onto my work day.
So spec-fucking-tacular. Thank you. Oh joy. Another Microsoft. All hail Fire-fucked.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
I think not failing in the W3 standards department still gives it an edge over IE.
The speed certainly is an issue that needs to be addressed though.
Oh, and I had a small problem a couple of days after I upgraded. One of my extensions updated, and then Firefox would crash as soon as it started. I had to start it up in the convenient Safe Mode and disable the extension. It was patched the next day though. I suppose I can’t really blame an extension developer’s mistake on the Mozilla team, but I think some sort of failsafe to prevent hangups like that would be nice.
January 30th, 2010 at 8:42 am
Oh how I hate this website being bolded in Firefox… eeek!!!! I’ll have to spend some more time looking at the CSS this afternoon, I’m beginning to wonder what’s going on as nothing seemed to over-ride the bolding when I looked at the CSS files yesterday. And its just Firefox rendering, and seems to be just on this site. Is it bolded for you?
I have to confess I haven’t checked other computers, will do that in an hour or so.
January 30th, 2010 at 8:50 am
Just disabled
Regular Expression Testera whole bunch of incompatible plugins for Firefox 3.6 so hopefully that problem might be solved (crossed fingers)…The bolding is annoying.
January 30th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
It looks fine to me. I don’t see any bolding. Weird.
January 30th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Interesting… when I put the “persona” on for Pulp Fiction this website was the one I was viewing. I’ve since removed it. I might try pulling firefox off and removing all of the personal info… clean install. Might do the trick.
It looks pretty disgusting on my computer. Thanks Matt, at least I can sleep easier knowing nobody else is seeing super bold theme.
January 30th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Well I’m out of ideas… this time I pulled Firefox right off, clean installation and deleted personal preferences (although my bookmarks seemed to be still there). But still, all text on this site, on my computer at least, remains bolded and I can’t seem to over-ride the stylesheets.
Its actually a bit pants when this pants stuff happens with a browser. Firepants, the browser to make you give up the Web… nice pitch.
January 30th, 2010 at 6:21 pm
OK, it appears that the problem is a corrupted font. Trebuchet MS must have been corrupted in the core fonts when I either installed or uninstalled that Firefox persona.
Not exactly firefox’s fault, but had I not upgraded and succumbed to the tempting spiel… well, grief would have not found me so easily.
Now I either find and reinstall Trebuchet MS or change the sites fonts… I choose the former.
January 30th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
Yep, Lucinda Grande just needed reinstalling – copied it to the desktop then back into the fonts folder in windows.
Still not very happy that a Firefox persona would jack around my windows installation though… mmm…