Yahoo Pledges Full Firefox Support

homerj79 writes "News.com.com is reporting that Yahoo! has pledged full support of Firefox across its entire site. Despite its search bar for Firefox, which was launched in February, users still had to revert back to IE for certain features of Yahoo, like customizing your Yahoo Messenger avatar via the web. A specific date has not been set, but the company did say it would not launch any new services until all existing one supported Firefox." Update: 03/18 18:24 GMT by Z : GraffitiKnight (among many others) wrote in to mention that the claim has been retracted by the Yahoo! central office.

Comments

Re:Support from an unlikely source?

[Anonymous Coward]

ASP.NET's html generation profile is based on an old version of Netscape where things like border-collapse didn't work. It's pretty straightforward to update this for FireFox.

Apparently one main goal of ASP.NET2 is XHTML support, which is good for everyone, except IE6 users. Until IE7 ships, Firefox may be the best environment for ASP.NET users.

Not Correct

[phusikos]

Sorry to spoil the fun, but the article is out-of-date an incorrect. (Gotta love the Information Age!) Today, a Yahoo! representative said that the "full support" statement was "factually inaccurate."

"In the grand scheme of things Firefox is still a new technology. I'm not saying we are not going to be developing and exploring other areas -- we are. But there are so many different products on the Yahoo network that there may be some products that are, perhaps, not appropriate for that browser," the representative said.

Hopefully, they'll still be able to expand Firefox support in the near future.

You'd hope submitters would RTFA

[X]

"...but the company did say it would not launch any new services until all existing one supported Firefox"

No, they didn't say that. They said they wouldn't launch any new services until making sure they worked with Firefox. They don't have a timeline for when they get all existing services supported on Firefox and, not surprisingly, don't want to hold off on launching new services for an arbitrary period of time.

Re:extensions ... adblock?

[geminidomino]

That would suggest an issue with your filter set, not with Yahoo.

I don't use yahoo, but in about 15 seconds, I came up with this:

http://us.a1.yimg.com/*/promotions/*

Turned it on and didn't see any more ads come up. It may need tweaking after ad rotations.
Hope that helps.

Quick slashdot / firefox fix

[Darth_brooks]

use the ctrl + and ctrl - shortcuts to increase the text size, then reduce it back to normal. This will re-render the page properly. Why this works, I have no idea.