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Firefox In Print

Posted by michael on from the no,-not-the-nyt-ad dept.

hoovernj writes "It seems that O'Reilly is ready to release two books about Firefox in March. The first is Firefox Hacks, which will be targeted at Firefox power users. And the second is Don't Click on the Blue E!, which will be targeted at less-savvy users transitioning from Internet Explorer. Could this be the end of lazy IE-only scripted webpages? (thanks to mozillaZine for the original pointer)." And reader ledmirage writes "Wired Magazine's February issue on Firefox: 'It's fast, secure, open source - and super popular. The hot new browser called Firefox is rocking the software world. (Watch your back, Bill Gates.)'."

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  1. Slashdot by zoeblade · · Score: 5, Informative

    Could this be the end of lazy IE-only scripted webpages?

    Slashdot is not the place to ask. Their site constantly displays incorrectly in Firefox. They'd do well to take heed of their own articles.

    1. Re:Slashdot by Mr_Silver · · Score: 3, Informative
      Constantly? I keep hearing how Slashdot displays incorrectly in Firefox, but would you mind specifying how exactly it displays it wrong? Is something unalligned, or is it using incorrect font sizes or something?

      I get it very rarely but it is there. The contents in the middle of the page (as in, the article text and comments) are rendered too far to the left and overlap the textual links on the far left.

      You can fix it by going ctrl + and then ctrl -.

      This is partly due to a Firefox bug of which the fix never made it into 1.0 (but will be in 1.1) and crappy non-w3c compliant HTML that Slashdot uses.

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  2. Re:22% of which market by forgotten_my_nick · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not that far off. 19.2% and if I recall w3schools only recently started marking the difference between FF and Mozilla (which would bring it up to 23% if it was watching the two as one).

  3. Re:Perhaps by virtual_mps · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hmm. The popular trick I'm familiar with is to enable pipelining--which lets you submit multiple requests in a single tcp session; this is not the same as increasing the maximum number of simultaneous requests, although the FUDdites like to run around claiming that it is. It's not enabled by default because some lousy web servers can't handle pipelining.

  4. Firefox and Print by Bruzer · · Score: 5, Informative


    Ironicly the firefox browser prints pages like crap, cutting text in half, and squishing images very poorly. I love the browser, but I always have to reprint pages in other browsers to get better results.

    - Bruzer

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  5. Also an article in the New York Times by amabbi · · Score: 3, Informative
    The Gray Lady Online has an article on MSIE-alternative browsers; of course Firefox and Mozilla are mentioned, and they even mention browsers like Amaya and Safari.

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