On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 12:13 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > > FF3 is VERY buggy. -jmz > > > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:08 PM, stu w wrote: > > > Greetings All, > > > Paying bills today, which I normally do online, and have never > run into > > > a problem with Firefox on Ubuntu 8.10. After logging off from APS, I > got > > > a pop-up asking me to take a survey for APS. I clicked on it, and it > was > > > a nightmare from my old windows days. It kept opening up blank browser > > > windows faster than I could click out of them! I do have the Firefox > > > pop-up blocker enabled, but the windows continued to open even after I > > > disconnected from the network. > > > Does anyone know if this is an issue with Firefox, or the APS > website? > > > Thanks, > > > Stu > ---- > there are many websites that just design and test just for IE, some > possibly for IE & Safari and if not designed and tested with FF too, can > produce some unpredictable results. I don't blame all weirdness on FF > just because it's FF. > > Then I have found that the Adobe plugins are somewhat problematic on FF > but they are getting better. The AdobeReader plugin on FF has long been > a nightmare and I typically install AdobeReader and remove the FF plugin > so PDF files are downloaded instead of opened directly in a FF > window/tab. > > That said, if you do a survey for APS, it strikes me as fate. > > Craig > > In fact, I have always thought most of the problems people have with FF have more to do with the many add-ons most people use. I seldom have more than three and have rarely had any issues other than with sites using microsoft specific extensions. Interestingly enough, today's email had a reference to: http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7307/1.html which seems to confirm that theory. I do not mean that other suggestions are wrong, just that one might suspect add-ons first as a source for wierdnesses. -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry