SSWI — When in doubt, buff it out.
An irritating problem,
Written in Frisco, TX on May 11, 2006 and tagged with technology and web-standards.
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I am having an odd problem, and I have run out of patience trying to solve it.
For some reason, in the last 2 - 3 days my js-foo has been breaking in Firefox. And not all the time mind you, sometimes you will load the site and it will work fine. I have it working in Safari, the only other browser I care about.
So since my javascript-foo is not strong at all, I thought I would make a call out to my friends in the blogosphere: “Help a brotha out!”
You can see all of my code by viewing the source of my site and checking out the contents of cjd-boot.js and comms-js.js; that is all there is to it really.
Any help would be appreciated.
If you post about this on Twitter, please use the hashtag #silly582.
benny, on March 1, 2007
Michele, on March 1, 2007
Am I missing something? What is it that is not working?
Chris J. Davis, on March 1, 2007
Michele,
If you look at the top of my site, where it says “Search »”, there should be nothing next to it; if you then click on it there should appear two options next to it: My Thoughts and My Memories.
Additionally the grey header bar should vertically exapnd. Currently depending on your luck, that might work in Firefox, it might not.
khaled, on March 1, 2007
Chris, not sure if this is the same thing, but I’ve been having a bit of trouble with FF and it’s handling of some js on my site. Specifically the lightbox technique. To solve the problem I generally erase the cache and then try it again and it’s all working again. Maybe testing it out again and again in FF does something and it breaks down? I dunno but I know, it’s god damn irritating.
ANATOLY, on March 1, 2007
Once I Had the same probleme, but it solved by computer with out my help!
Jeremy, on March 1, 2007
I have been looking for the problem each time I visit your site, and all seems to be working ok. I will keep looking.
Tim, on March 1, 2007
Chris -
I love the design and the idea behind the Javascript header. I see that it is working now, would you mind sharing what the fix was? I am looking to do something similar on my site.
Thanks immensly.
-Tim
Chris J. Davis, on March 1, 2007
Hey guys,
Unfortunately it is not working in Firefox. I have found that as khaled had metioned it is some sort of strange cache problem in Firefox.
When you load the site for the first time, it works fine; if you reload the page you are on, it breaks. Clear out your cache in Firefox and it works again.
Not sure what is up, but I am looking into it.
Bonita in Pink, on March 1, 2007
Yeap, it’s not working Firefox.
Sorry man, I wish I was a “web geek” to figure all that stuff for people.
:-(
Zeo, on March 1, 2007
CTRL+F5 and get use to it :)
Basil, on March 1, 2007
I recommend logging a bug with bugzilla. If you can narrow it down to a test case, that’s great, but not entirely necessary. Let me know the bug number if you log it.
eric, on March 1, 2007
omg. totally, totally having EXACTLY the same problem: everything with my moo.fx was delicious in Mac Safari, Windows IE, Windows F’fox… but on Mac F’fox, moo was interfering with my Flash movies and making them wonky. the “solution”? clear my Mac F’fox cache, all is happy.
this is not good at all, since that’s not really a solution that I can tell my client or the end-user :-) but at least we know.
you’re filing a bug in Bugzilla for Mac F’fox, right?
Yeah, its uh, definitely hosed in FF 1.5. I’ve reloaded a few times to no avail.