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Damn you FireFox 4.0 Beta 1!

Thursday, July 8th, 2010 at 11:14 pm

None of my addons/extensions work !
FireFTP, FireBug, Web Developer…none of them work on my FireFox! Those 3 things are ESSENTIAL to me updating my website…FireFTP is the only FTP program I have….FireBug is great for web debugging!

I’m trying to load an old FireFox (3.6.6) w/o uninstalling this one but I didn’t have any luck. Actually, to be honest, I didn’t google or try at all.
I just went to
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
instead of
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 1
and assumed that loading the firefox.exe in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox would work. No such luck. Pretty fail troubleshoot if I do say so myself.

I guess it’s okay that I don’t work on my site for a bit…I’ll just keep watching Clannad. I watched 3 episodes @ work today while working :D I don’t think I fooled anyone when I’d minimize quickly but w/e.

BTW FireFox 4.0 Beta 1’s fine, I don’t have any strong dislike against it…originally the layout and stuff reminded me of Chrome…until I made it look like FF3.6.6. Basically, there was no point in upgrading -_-;

/this post was so pointless, i apologize to those that read it. also, i’ve been drinking…i have a headache :/

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IE6 (Internet Explorer 6)

Monday, June 28th, 2010 at 11:11 am

I know I wasn’t going to code for IE6….but maybe I should. I ask myself “What’s the point?” Right now, people that use IE6 is 7.1%. That’s actually a fairly large percentage.

Now, by the time I complete my site and rework the CSSes (plural) to work for IE6, I imagine it will be a few months later (say, Sept) and the % will have dropped to 5.5% (on average it’s dropping 8%/month).

Also, this site tries to heavily use PNGs, and not JPGs or GIFs. You get the JPG quality plus transparency…it’s win win with PNG. The loss is that IE6…needs special CSS to display any PNG. Like, really?! seems a bit ridiculous…

But…if people are coming to my site…judging it’s cross browser compatibility and such…then I should have it working for IE6. How can I call myself a cross browser compatible web developer if I simply don’t code for that…I know I SHOULD develop for IE6. But is it worth it?

/I’ll think about it for a couple months. I’m sure the problem will resolve itself.

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Chrome and other web browsers

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 at 10:28 pm

Z has been trying to make me switch to Chrome…I have to admit that it’s simple and fast…but not rendering my site as well as I’d like.

I started doing Acid3 Tests (http://acid3.acidtests.org/) at work, on my work browsers including:

Firefox 3.6.3: 94/100
Safari 3.2.3: 75/100
Opera 10.01: 100/100
Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702: 13/100….before crashing my IE >_< Stupid IE Chrome 5.0.375.70: 100/100 I DO notice Firefox is pretty slow in general...but I love/need it for: FireFTP FireBug (because developing on IE8 and using the IE Developer Tool sucks) I'm pretty surprised/impressed that Chrome and Opera are both 100/100. Firefox comes close and IE...IE is terribad as always. I DO use a tab on IE for listening to the radio as well as watch youtube videos. Firefox always just seems to lag the videos if I have too many tabs open or if the program has been open too long. I guess it needs to do a memory dump.

Maybe…I’ll use Firefox for FireFTP and FireBug and use Chrome to browse…I don’t know.

On my site TO DO list: Cross browser testing. So boring, bah!

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Site Updates cont’d + OMFG

Sunday, April 11th, 2010 at 5:46 am

5. To Do – It’s been brought to my attention that this session variable + themes don’t work in IE OR SAFARI. WTF. It’s a freaking php session variable, not even related to the client side (I believe). Why would it work in FF and not the other 2 sh!tty browsers. I, unfortunately, have to fix this as it’s one of the main items of attraction for my page. Sigh…….why do I have to fix my AWESOME code because of some SH!TTY browsers (and as I write this, I realize it’s probably my shitty code and their proper rendering browsers…).

6. Comment – Did some more cross browser testing and things don’t work perfectly on IE or Safari, not like they do on Firefox. It looks decent though so I might not change anything….Google Analytics tells me that my users are mostly FF users on Windows, this might be biased tho as most of these stats are probably me, as I refresh the page constantly while I’m developing.

My question is: who’s using Chrome? I know who’s using Safari on a Mac (that was easy to determine…)

Upon saving the above image and typing the name “browser.gif” more than 4 times, I incorrectly typed it BOWSER.gif each time…MLIM (My Life is Mario).

3. & 7. DONE + OMFG COMMENT – I just spent the last FOUR of the most boring hours ever copying 83 comments from my old blog to my new blog. The most time consuming part was going back to each post and setting the correct time-stamp. Also, I had to use 2 browsers as well as both my monitors to do this efficiently so I didn’t watch anything either. 4 hours…that’s 6 x 1 hour long episodes (and yes, that math is correct, 4hours=240m=6(40m episodes) because a 1 hour long show minus commercials is ~40m).

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