What others write about their Firefox crashes; Chrome is the oddity with font-face

16.12.2010/10.53

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 […]

And now, Chrome changes fonts on some numerals

14.12.2010/08.47

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. […]

No changes to Opera’s typography in v. 11 beta

08.12.2010/12.23

Opera 11 still has the font-changing bug that was in 10·63, as I found tonight: Underlined are the characters (from a post on this blog) that are not displaying in the same typeface as the rest of the text. The quotation marks, all ligatures and any characters that follow a ligature before a space, […]

Chrome’s dramas continue as it hits version 8

/11.44

It looks like Chrome has updated by itself, and as with all improvements to software, more bugs have been introduced. You can blame our programming skills, but here is how the home page of Lucire now looks (and it had looked like this on Chromium a couple of months ago, too): Below is how […]

Giving Chrome a thrashing, including its typography

19.11.2010/23.59

My friends Julian and Andrew both provided advice on how to ﬁx the Firefox problems I had been having. Removing and reinstalling plug-ins seems to have solved the constant crashing, though eventually it stopped loading images whenever it felt like it (hit ‘Reload’ enough times and they would return) and Facebook direct messaging stopped working. […]

A typeface designer’s test of the Opera browser

01.11.2010/09.03

After my endless complaints about Firefox crashing on Twitter (even with a fresh install, it still crashes multiple times daily—even on the machine where the hard drive was reformatted), I was pointed to Opera 10·63. I can tell it’s not really designed for anyone who likes type. Here’s how my Twitter page looked, with […]