Why an SVG logo does not render in Firefox

25.07.2023/10.29

Thanks to the participants at the Mozilla forum for answering why my name, rendered in SVG, did not show up in Firefox on this website. It turns out that Chromium is a lot less strict (remember the days of Internet Explorer?). As a result, it rendered the SVG file even when it really wasn’t supposed […]

Opera GX wins over Firefox in typography; Über’s still a lemon

17.05.2022/10.13

I’ve had both Firefox and Opera GX running as replacements for Vivaldi, which still crashes when I click in form fields, though not 100 per cent of the time. It’s running at about 50 per cent, so the fix they employed to deal with this issue is only half-effective. I see Firefox still doesn’t render […]

Browser history

11.04.2022/01.53

In 2011, I was definitely on Firefox. I believe I started browsing as many did, with Netscape. But not 1.0 (though I had seen copies at university). I was lucky enough to have 1.1 installed first. I stuck with Netscape till 4.7. Its successor, v. 6, was bloated, and never worked well on my […]

Welcome to Vivaldi

07.09.2017/10.41

Earlier this week, I installed Vivaldi browser, and decided to make it my default after reading CEO Jon von Tetzchner’s blog post about the potentially corrupt practice of Google suspending his company’s Adwords campaign after he was critical of them. I have resisted browsers made from Chromium because I was never sure how much […]

Firefox, Waterfox, Cyberfox displaying no text? Do the opposite of what you are told

24.12.2014/14.04

After months of avoiding the latest Mozilla Firefox because it would display no text, installing, removing, and reinstalling an older version of Waterfox just so I could do some work, and experimenting over the last day with Cyberfox, which included editing fonts, looking at GFX settings, editing the registry, and doing an awful lot of […]

Switching to Cyberfox, after Waterfox and Firefox stopped displaying text

23.12.2014/14.39

Since the Firefox for Windows updates in November, I’ve had a big problem with the Mozilla browser, and the Waterfox 64-bit version based on it: they won’t display text. I had to downgrade to Waterfox 32.0.3 for the last month or so, but it’s begun crashing more and more regularly (from once a day to […]

Water trumps ﬁre

09.02.2014/03.50

Since I used to post updates of the web browsers I used: I have switched to Waterfox, replacing Firefox. Since the latest Flash updates a few weeks back, Firefox has been crashing twice a day. Other weird things have happened, too, like the save file dialogue box failing to appear after several hours’ use, […]

Testing the browsers: which has the best typography?

23.02.2012/07.07

Con Carlyon inspired this post today. He’s kept an eye on the best browser and forwarded me a test from TechCrunch where Firefox, Chrome, IE9 and Opera 11 are pitted against one another. The victors are Firefox and Chrome. My needs are quite different from most people. For starters, the number-one criterion for me […]

Using Super Start on Firefox, after I got pop-ups while using Speed Dial

20.12.2011/04.09

PS.: I got two pop-ups today (December 21) of the same nature, this time while using Facebook. I think we can rule out Speed Dial as the reason.—JY For the Firefox bofﬁns out there, I began using Super Start, after having trialled Speed Dial and Fast Dial over the past year or so. These […]

Ad networks: you might have asked them not to track you, but they do

17.07.2011/12.05

Looks like Google isn’t the only guilty party when it comes to advertising cookies. Andrew Carr-Smith sent me this link from Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society (CIS), which has been tracking how the advertising networks track us. This is slightly different from my earlier situation, which did not involve the ‘Do […]