Slashdot Mirror

Or you could just install the SlashFix extension and not have to worry about it.

Ironic that a site visited by some of the biggest advocates of open source and the Mozilla Foundation wouldn't be rendered properly. "But it's fixed in the nightly builds!" Yeah, and it's been broken since around 0.7...

You can work around the firefox bug (it's not slashdot's fault) with an extension: http://hardgrok.org/blog/item/slashfix-firefox-ext ension.html

Get the firefox slashfix plugin here: http://www.hardgrok.org/blog/item/slashfix-firefox -extension.html

Ironically enough, yes.

Oops. That should be "installing a simple extension".

Because installing a or even reflowing every page is much less cumbersome than using a browser that doesn't support gestures or tabs.

Yes, you're the only one. :) In fact, one programmer decided to do something about it: Slashfix. Been using it for a while now and it works just great.

Maybe Slashdot should just put it on the front page.
http://hardgrok.org/blog/item/slashfix-firefox-ext ension.html
This is a firefox extension that fixes the strange rendering that Slashdot's broken html creates.

Or keep your stable release and install SlashFix.

Search Google for the "SlashFix" extension for Firefox or download it here. It worked for me, no more reloading!

The Slashfix extension fixes this. I got this from Mozilla Update, but it seems to have been removed from their site. For whatever reason it was, it works perfectly.

I just use SlashFix

Use Slashfix, and never worry about slashdot rendering errors again.

Clicky.

Sorry; slashfix link was wrong. Try the Slashfix extension WWW site.

slashfix

there is also a reference to the bug number and a (workarround)fix. Seems to be a timing bug.

Or you could use SlashFix. I am using it on 1.0.1 and it is working as good as ever.

The main Slashdot rendering bug fix is going to be released with 1.1. This version 1.0.1 is only a security fix.

If not, get this in the meantime:.

Oops. On further exploration, I see that it's fixed in the trunk, and the fix will be included in the 1.1 release (I guess must have misread that to say 1.0.1). In the meantime, there's always the SlashFix extension.

Man, /. renders like shit in Firefox

Found it!
(The quick hack extension to use for the rendering bug until FF 1.1.
I don't use it myself, but they say it works.)

And before the complaints come,

Slashfix

Only the ones unable to apply Slashfix. Get it here

In the mean time, you can wordkaround it.

The solution is called Slashfix

Click here to install the SlashFix Extension.

It'll bug you about it not being a trusted site though.

Reloading the page can be tedious with questionable results.
Download this and you'll see that Slashdot behaves as it should behave in any web browser.

I have been using the SlashFix extension and since installing, I have not had that issue anymore. hurray! :)

Get the Slashfix extension.

Ah, but a community is more than any one organization. Thus, while Slashdot itself may be unwilling to address this problem, other members of the community may already have solved it for you. Try the SlashFix extension for Firefox.

Install the slashfix extension.

This might be band-aiding the situation, but I haven't had to deal with the /. rendering probs since I downloaded the Slashfix extension.

Do you mean this extension?

ieview

That extension adds a right-click option for viewing a page in IE.

Probably they'd want to look at that extension, along with something like the slashfix extension. Slashfix has code that causes Firefox to do something when it encounters a certain URL (slashdot.org)...You'd want something like the code in that to check against your list, then use code in ieview to pop open an IE window when one of those pages are detected.

Or something like that.

Slashfix is the answer to your woes.

you dont need a 1.1 nightly. just get this extenstion http://hardgrok.org/blog/item/slashfix-firefox-ext ension.html and you can use 1.0 with /.

this firefox extention fixes it: Slashfix

It was annoying the heck out of me too...

PCB$#

Or better yet, just use an extension that forces a relayout when slashdot loads:
http://hardgrok.org/blog/item/slashfix-firefox-ext ension.html/

"Are my Slashdot stories flowing into each other again?"

http://hardgrok.org/blog/item/slashfix-firefox-ext ension.html

Ironically, one of the site I find doesn't render correctly with FireFox is Slashdot!

• Resize the font by holding CTRL and pressing + followed by - or turning the mouse wheel up and down
• Use the SlashFix extension, which does the same thing automatically
• Use a nightly build (the fix should be included in the 1.1 release)

After a short discussion here I leanred that it doesn't work with pages loaded in new tabs in the background. Since I rarely want to see just one story at slashdot, it's pretty much useless to me. So, control-plus-minus it remains.

http://www.hardgrok.org/slashfix/

Installed it, now I never have a problem on /.

If you don't want to install it, you can just do ctrl-,ctrl+ which shrinks and grows the font, which resizes the screen and fixes the display errors, too, but it's much easier to let slashfix do it for you.

SlashFix Firefox Extension.

The quick workaround is to hit ctrl- followed by ctrl+.

SlashFix

This extension forces a re-flow of the page after it loads.

They have fixed it: they eliminated the damned thing from the trunk build back in June. As for why this fix never got integrated into the branch build in time for the 1.0 release... who knows. Stupidity, I guess.

In the meantime, there's this extension which takes care of the problem pretty well.

This problem will be fixed in Firefox 1.1, but that won't be released until March. You can try a nightly build before then.

For the lazy, get this extention to fic the slashdot bug:-

2 nitpicks...

1.) If I were lazy, I would not install an extension to fix a stupid bug. Nor would I hit Ctrl + and Ctrl -
2.) Are you so lazy as not to link the URL?

For everyone else

http://hardgrok.org/blog/item/slashfix-firefox-ext ension.html

Was that so hard?

There is an extension that has a workaround for Firefox's rendering issue (Bug 217527) with /.
http://hardgrok.org/blog/item/slashfix-firefox-ext ension.html

Slashfix Extension