Websites alienate Firefox users

BBC ^ | 2005-06-23

[N3WBI3]

I have not seen a similar list of big sites (or even a count) in the US but I am sure its just as if not more a problem here.

Still this is a far cry better than things were a couple of years ago, and if in the next year or two FireFox can get to 15% of the market there may be enough pressure on webmasters to put something out there that will render under anything.

[N3WBI3]

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[RockinRight]

I use Firefox but 75% of the automated mortgage underwriting sites I use at work don't work on it.

[TGOGary]

Two words "Bill" and "Gates."

[itsamelman]

I use Firefox exclusively at home and have very few problems loading any websites. Add on the "IE View" extension and you can open up any sight that is slow loading or won't render correctly with just a right mouse-click.

[B Knotts]

It amazing to me that IE's market share is still that high. You'd have to be insane to use it.

[rudy45]

I keep getting those jigsaw pieces that tell me to download plugins... what a pain in the neck. So, I just close Firefox and switch to IE.. Problem goes away...

[ShadowAce]

[ShadowAce]

...there may be enough pressure on webmasters to put something out there that will render under anything.

Have you seen the Campaign for Non-Browseer specific WWW site?

[Jewelsetter]

Heck, I am on Firefox, I even dumped outlook for Thunderbird. To many problems with ms stuff.

[Marauder]

I'm on SBC DSL, and MSIE bogs my machine down incredibly, even when I scan for and delete all the spyware, after each session.

Plus SbcYahoo hijacks my IE homepage back to theirs whenever I change it to something else.

Enter Mozilla Firefox: My Ad-Aware rarely finds any spyware anymore, my computer runs at normal speed, I can set any site as my homepage and not be bothered, and I'm a happy surfer now. Of course, as soon as Firefox becomes very widely used, it too will be under attack by the virus and adware "Gollums" out there, so the search will be on for whatever's next.

[N3WBI3]

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[dsc]

Surely somebody connected with Firefox is smart enough to figure this out and make it read whatever IE reads.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

Ah yes thats the way to conform....
Bill Gates love that type of mentality.
I am not saying that there are not problems with Fire Fox.
However most of the problems that you find on the web are that the webmaster did not build the site for alternative browsers.
Hence the "puzzle piece". Once you download it it installs and the problem goes away. If however it doesn't I leave the site and take my business elsewhere. Micro$oft get enough of my hard earned money.

[Tribune7]

put me on your list

[rudy45]

LOL I created a website that has this very problem.. I used Frontpage, and put hover buttons. When I view the page under Firefox, I see the jigsaw pieces where the hover buttons are. When I click on the Firefox-provided button that offers a chance to download the correct plugins, I get a message that there ARE no plugins.

How can a Firefox user see hover buttons? Or, should I get rid of them and just use something else?

Thanks.

[rwfromkansas]

Maybe one or two sites I visit in a week have some probs with Firefox, but it is extremely rare.

[rwfromkansas]

That is what I use when I need to, but I haven't in over a week.

[ShadowAce]

Surely somebody connected with Firefox is smart enough to figure this out and make it read whatever IE reads.

That's not really the issue, though. MS and IE have added tags and "HTML" tags that are proprietary and not part of the international standard on HTML. Thus if a website usees one of those tags, only IE will read it and interpret it correctly.

Other browsers, like Firefox, try to conform to W3C standards more than trying to conform to MS. As a result, they will not read those extra tags that MS uses.

[itsamelman]

I keep getting those jigsaw pieces that tell me to download plugins... what a pain in the neck. So, I just close Firefox and switch to IE.. Problem goes away...

Hmmm... I don't get that at all. Add on the IE View extension and you won't have to deal w/ opening & closing hassle.