On Tuesday the Mozilla Corporation decided to set a world-record for number of downloads in a day for their new Firefox 3 web browser.<\/p>\n
Even though I love Opera<\/a> and would never, ever part from it, I decided I would do my part and download Firefox 3, to help Mozilla set their record.<\/p>\n Of course, Firefox couldn’t have predicted that their PR scheme would result in a self-inflicted DDoS attack on their servers<\/a>. \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n I installed Firefox 3, to keep it around as a back-up browser. (Some websites will work only in IE or Firefox. Opera and Safari users, we might as well be lepers.)<\/p>\n And then I discovered that my website was unreadable.<\/p>\n I surfed the ‘net. I discovered that about half the websites I visited were unreadable. Fonts were rendered very<\/i> small for some reason.<\/p>\n I think it’s a bug in the Gecko 1.9 engine that Firefox 3 uses.<\/p>\n Through trial and error I discovered that this line of code — Strangely enough, it worked fine as is in Firefox 2.x, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Opera, but in Firefox 3, it broke.<\/p>\n And now we’re good to go. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n But you know what I miss when I look at the website in Firefox? The text shadow effects on titles. I guess text-shadow is one CSS3 selector that hasn’t made it into Firefox yet, even though it’s in Opera 9.5 and Safari 3. *shrug*<\/p>\n ETA:<\/b> You know what? Scratch all that. I had to undo the change I made to style.css, because even though it made things readable in FF3, everything became giant<\/i> in other browsers.<\/p>\n This requires more research.<\/p>\n ETA(2):<\/b> Research turns up that Firefox 3 handles em measurements oddly. So, the line ETA(3):<\/b> Nope. The problem was on my end. I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Tuesday the Mozilla Corporation decided to set a world-record for number of downloads in a day for their new Firefox 3 web browser. Even though I love Opera and would never, ever part from it, I decided I would do my part and download Firefox 3, to help Mozilla set their record. Of course,Continue reading “On Firefox Follies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4095],"tags":[57,498,351,4096],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-css","tag-firefox","tag-meta","tag-wordpress","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfont: 70%\/1.5em Verdana, Tahoma, arial, sans-serif;<\/code>
\nin my stylesheet I had to turn into this —
\n\tfont-size: 70%\/1.5em;
\nfont-family: Verdana, Tahoma, arial, sans-serif;<\/code>
\nand then everything was fine.<\/p>\n
\nfont-size: 70%\/1.5em;<\/code>
\nwas changed to
\nfont-size: 11px;<\/code>
\nAnd now everything is legible.<\/p>\n