[wplug] What's With Firefox?

[terry mcintyre]

Forgot to mention - I also use a Macbook.

BTW, there's a recent software upgrade which seems to improve graphics 
performance somewhat. 
 Terry McIntyre <terrymcintyre at yahoo.com>


Unix/Linux Systems Administration
Taking time to do it right saves having to do it twice.



----- Original Message ----
> From: terry mcintyre <terrymcintyre at yahoo.com>
> To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
> Sent: Sun, August 22, 2010 11:39:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [wplug] What's With Firefox?
> 
> I switched from Firefox to Chrome a few months ago, when Facebook became 
> unbearably slow under Firefox. They seem to have fixed that problem. 
> 
> Am now using Firefox 3.6.8; Google Maps seems to be working. It looks  the same 
>
> regardless of whether I use Firefox or Safari or Chrome. 
> 
> In  none of the three do I get a scroll bar on Google Maps; I use the mouse to 

> pan and zoom, and of course there's the widget to accomplish the same thing,  
>on 
>
> all three. 
> 
> You may wish to check your preferences on Firefox?
>   Terry McIntyre <terrymcintyre at yahoo.com>
> 
> 
> Unix/Linux  Systems Administration
> Taking time to do it right saves having to do it  twice.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Greg Simkins  <gregsimkins at me.com>
> > To: WPLUG  General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
> > Sent: Sun, August  22, 2010 11:26:31 PM
> > Subject: [wplug] What's With Firefox?
> > 
> > I run Firefox v3.6.8 on my MacBook.  Since about a month ago, I am  no  
>longer 
>
> >able to use Firefox very effectively with Google Maps  and Weather.com.  
>Firefox 
>
> >does  not display the full page for these sites and does not  provide any 
>scroll  
>
> >bars.  Either Firefox changed or the new  types of web page are changing,  but 
>I 
>
> >have to use Safari to  properly view these sites.  I keep checking for  an 
>update 
>
> >to  Firefox, thinking this must be a recognized bug, but so far no   updates.  
>
> >Anybody have any insight into what went wrong?  
> >
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