Firefox 4 Beta 13 works, and I have not found any bugs with it. I may be wrong, but I believe this is the last beta before release. What’s amazing is that the bugs I have been complaining about for a long time have each been fixed. In other words, the reporting system […]
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Why I removed Chrome, and the six basic things that it can’t do
I write this not long after another Firefox crash (Atomic Decrement being the signature) and wiped three quite well worded (if I say so myself) paragraphs. To vent, I Tweeted, and received (again) the suggestion of switching to Chrome. I appreciate the kind motive but Chrome is so severely lacking that last night, I […]
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The real experts are fixing Firefox 4
Good news: there have been more developments with Mozilla as they work on the rather serious bug (the one where you can’t read a damn thing) in Firefox 4 Beta. John Daggett at Mozilla created logging to help identify the problem, and I ran the latest nightly build to get the logs back to […]
No surprises as Firefox 4 reaches Beta 10
Tried Firefox 4 Beta 10 on another computer altogether—the new machine in the office. No font management software on this one, which rules out anything that could have been doing. I don’t need to say much more. The font problem is the same as on Betas 7, 8 and 9; and the fact that Google […]
Firefox betas and me: a summary
For those who found the last post too technical, too long, too boring, or too repetitive, a summary: Bear in mind I haven’t drawn for a while, except typefaces which I know I can modify (and which I spend a lot more time on). I’m no Hugh MacLeod, OK? You may also like The real […]
Jack tries another Firefox beta—we all know what happens next
Title says it all. Except this time, it’s not just the fonts. No link in a Google results page is clickable: in fact, Google hangs the entire browser (though I can still scroll up and down—yay). The program, after clicking on the close icon, stays in the Task Manager for at least 10 minutes (I […]
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All I wanted to do was to say, ‘Thank you,’ to Telstra Clear
I seem to be to computers what Frank Spencer is to life. Long-time readers will know that in 2009, Vox locked me out. We went round and round for months, with the company suggesting all sorts of solutions, usually putting the blame back on me or the ISP. I had tried logging in […]
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Finally, confirmation that Firefox is crashing a lot
After discovering about:crashes and Bugzilla, I’ll be finishing 2010 with some vindication that Firefox is, indeed, a buggy, crash-prone browser. At Bugzilla, where Firefox bugs are filed, the “unmark purple” bug that has been giving me so much grief over the last few months, which has crashed Firefox up to 11 times a day […]
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What others write about their Firefox crashes; Chrome is the oddity with font-face
It has been interesting reading the comments from other disgruntled Firefox users over the ‘unmark purple’ error (nsXULControllers::cycleCollection::UnmarkPurple(nsISupports*))—now that I can trace the majority of my crashes to this. Yesterday, Mozilla’s Crash Reports’ site crashed (rather fitting), and today, the CSS wouldn’t load, which allowed me to read what others wrote on the […]
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And now, Chrome changes fonts on some numerals
When I run a temperature or am sick, I try to find “lighter” things to do at work. Updating the information pages at the company website seemed to be the best thing: it’s not mentally taxing, but it has to be done. And in doing so I found even more problems with Chrome. […]
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