I.E. vs Firefox

[drogulus]

     Do you mean the menu button? It's still there. I use the menu bar instead.

     Nightly 7.0a1:

     

     Aurora 5.0a2:

     

[DavidW]

So does the nightly build not have the FF branding?

[drogulus]

    It used to be called Minefield. They change names as they branch. Aurora is the branch to the next major release, Nightly is the trunk.

[haydnguy]

It's still there if you look closely just replaced with a planet.  Looks more like seamonkey than firefox.

I kind of miss the old Netscape gif where the sun was orbiting the moon thing! 

[drogulus]

     

     

     

     

     

[Opus106]

Did they decide to get rid of the orange Firefox button up at the top left? I kind of like that. It takes up less space than a row of buttons.

It's the new icon for their nightly builds.

[drogulus]

Since yesterday, my iGoogle does not display in Firefox but does in IE.  Not that it's any big deal, just curious if something was changed or if anyone else is experiencing the same thing.

     I have a Yahoo start page, but I'm signed into Google the whole time I'm online. If I go to iGoogle it has an unfinished page waiting for me to set it up. I don't think I'll bother since the Yahoo page serves my needs. I set it up 10 yrs. ago when I first went online and I've been tweaking it continuously to bring me mail, news, opinion, sports, weather, financial info and other things I want to look at first thing in the day. It's also the last thing I look at before I shut down.

     Anyway, iGoogle displays normally on my FF alphas, so I don't know why it wouldn't on the released versions. What happens when you go to the page in FF?

[DavidW]

My igoogle is fine on my FF.

[Opus106]

Leon, did you install NoScript or some other JavaScript-blocking extension in Firefox recently?

[DavidW]

I did install AdBlock and it recently updated itself.  Do you think that could be the reason?

I don't think because I have adblock too, and it works for me.  I would bet it had something to do with your google settings.

[Opus106]

I did install AdBlock and it recently updated itself.  Do you think that could be the reason?

No, I find that possibility unlikely. I don't use iGoogle, though I did customise the page a few years ago, but when I visited it yesterday after reading your post, it appeared pretty much empty because NoScript was blocking gmodules.com, which shouldn't happen if the site has to function properly.

One way to check if the problem is caused by one or more extensions is to disable them all and then check whether the site works after a browser restart. After that you have to keep enabling them one by one, until you find the nuisance add-on. (I think Firefox 4 allows you to disable all add-ons at once. And another way to achieve the same effect would be to create a separate Firefox profile without add-ons.)

[haydnguy]

I must say I don't find too much difference anymore in the browsers. I re-installed Vista today and am using IE9 and find it just fine. On my machine I can't really tell much difference between IE9 and Chrome. If there IS a difference there isn't much. I DO think that FF has slipped a bit but even there it's a very good browser. 

[Opus106]

I must say I don't find too much difference anymore in the browsers. I re-installed Vista today and am using IE9 and find it just fine. On my machine I can't really tell much difference between IE9 and Chrome. If there IS a difference there isn't much. I DO think that FF has slipped a bit but even there it's a very good browser. 

What! Do you mean to say that you, as a user, are unable to notice the 220 ms difference in JS execution that reviewers speak about every quarter?

[drogulus]

Hmmm, must be something local to my computer.  But I can't imagine what since I have not made any changes.

What loads is the shell of the page but no modules of content, e.g. no boxes of Gmail, News, Weather, Sports, etc.

     Everything is good in IE, correct?

[drogulus]

IE displays my iGoogle fine.  It is not a huge problem, but just irksome.

     IE works on the same computer as your balky FF?

[DavidW]

I call that problem solved!

You could always just uninstall and reinstall FF.

[drogulus]

     1) You could try FF Safe Mode. If it works, say "aha!".

     2) Open Profile Manager, create a new profile, add extensions/plugins one by one until you find the guilty party.

     Or you could....

     3) .....download the lastest stable version of FF from the Firefox page, and turn on updates in the advanced options tab.


     

[drogulus]

    I love my Yahoo page. They keep trying to get me to move to a "new" version but I won't. What is it, 5 years now they've been doing this?

[DavidW]

I don't want to re-install/update FF because FF4 has problems with Blackboard/Wimba which I need for some online courses.  I just went to Yahoo for my homepage - same kind of content and no glitches.

I've stopped using Blackboard and I didn't know that.  Using an older version of FF could well have been the problem.  Google might be only maintaining compatibility with the newest version... I'll leave that to Ernie to needlessly explore!