Which browser do you use

[tsh]

There's other oses than PC and mac you know... I run firefox on my TV, which is linux. (and opera on my phone)

[Dreadful Scathe]

There's other oses than PC and mac you know...

Neither PC or Mac are "an OS"

I run firefox on my TV, which is linux. (and opera on my phone)

Yes the poll is rubbish

[DavidY]

Hmm - just as well I do still have a copy of IE - I just came across a website which doesn't work in Firefox.

[Dreadful Scathe]

which one ?

[DavidY]

which one ?

My local GP's practice website. They have an "order a repeat prescription" request page. Good idea but doesn't seem to like Firefox.

[Dreadful Scathe]

I'd be tempted to send them an email pointing to some sort of w3c "best practice" doc with a complaint about them "forcing me to chose a specific technology"

[Tessalicious]

I'd be tempted to send them an email pointing to some sort of w3c "best practice" doc with a complaint about them "forcing me to chose a specific technology"

Good idea. Or, he could email them saying "It's really great that you provide this service but did you know that x% of people don't use Internet Explorer, so you'll make this service available to more people (and save even more doctors' time) if you adapt it to other browsers."

Which approach do you think will be less likely to encourage them to prescribe him unwanted laxatives?

[Dreadful Scathe]

Which approach do you think will be less likely to encourage them to prescribe him unwanted laxatives?

Are you suggesting GP's prescribe pills based on petty revenge rather than actual medical need? I'm off to phone the BMA*.



* The Bank Marketing Association of course, I want to complain about the Credit Crunch

[Dreadful Scathe]

At last - huge fines for Microsoft and an order to force them to give users a choice of browser on install. About time too - monopoly making muppets.

[Phil_dB]

I'm liking google Chrome.

If at work you want to browse more descretely, there's some good stealth browsers around, - i found Ghostzilla to be pretty good

[AussieJ]

FireFox 3 Portable Edition sitting on my Sandisk Cruzer micro

If and when Google releases support for third-party developed extensions to Chrome, I might check it out then.

[DavidY]

Found another website that seems to break in Firefox.

http://www.nokia.co.uk/storelocator is supposed to show a drop-down list of areas so (in my case) I can find someone repair my Nokia. (Which is broken )

It seems to work fine in IE but in the version of Firefox I'm using (3.0.4 - not the latest but not that old) it doesn't work. Have I got something wrong in my configuration?

[pmjd]

Found another website that seems to break in Firefox.

http://www.nokia.co.uk/storelocator is supposed to show a drop-down list of areas so (in my case) I can find someone repair my Nokia. (Which is broken )

It seems to work fine in IE but in the version of Firefox I'm using (3.0.4 - not the latest but not that old) it doesn't work. Have I got something wrong in my configuration?

Just checked the link, on Firefox 3.0.8 on OS X, and it works fine for me

[DavidY]

Thank for trying that.

Updated to Firefox 3.0.8 (on Windows XP). Still no drop-down list.

[AussieJ]

Updated to Firefox 3.0.8 (on Windows XP). Still no drop-down list.

The 'Area:' drop down list is expanding and collapsing just fine under my Firefox 3.0.5 browser

Could be a particular config variable that's been set to something erroneous, under about:config ? Just a guess though.

[Beowulf]

hmm.. can't say i'm sold !!

Oh how superman has fallen !

[Dreadful Scathe]

hmm.. can't say i'm sold !!

Oh how superman has fallen !

only watched the first one...is that supposed to be a positive advert for IE8 ?

[Danny]

I actually quite like the adverts, unfortunately, spending about 75% of my web-designing time catering to failings that are IE-specific has dampened my enthusiasm somewhat (PNG support, everything CSS, etc).
Not to mention thinking back to the time before FF came along where popups and viruses were par for the course - and that STILL hasn't changed.
If you're using IE, please stop hurting the internet and switch to a real browser.

[Dreadful Scathe]

If you're using IE, please stop hurting the internet and switch to a real browser.

A maxim to live by...

[killingtime]

I actually quite like the adverts, unfortunately, spending about 75% of my web-designing time catering to failings that are IE-specific has dampened my enthusiasm somewhat (PNG support, everything CSS, etc).

IE quirks account for days of my life that I'll never get back . Thankfully I've moved away from web design stuff so I don't need to worry about that at least for the near future anyway.