[Gllug] Linux firefox config

Diana Scott dianascott1 at hotmail.co.uk
Sat Apr 12 21:36:30 UTC 2008


Hi Gunde

Thank you for your reply.

in the right click of the view background picture was blanked out and unable to click to view the sculpture. 

I have empty the cache but the orange arrow problem remains the same. I agree that it seems like it was the page editor's error.

Many thanks.


Diana


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> From: spamyousilly at inbox.ru
> To: gllug at gllug.org.uk
> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:36:37 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Linux firefox config
> 
> Diana Scott wrote:
>> I am using Linux firefox 2.0.0.13 but I have noticed that the linux
>> firefox is unable to show the photo in the pick of the day in the
>> evening standard page http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/home/. But when I
>> use the windows firefox to view the same page, I was able to view the
>> photo in the pick of the day next to the box under the Art section.
> 
> If you have a look at http://www.gunde.de/thisislondon.jpg, which of the
> two pictures do you mean, is it the sculpture? If yes, what happens if
> you access the picture directly by rightclicking and selecting "View
> background picture"?
> 
>> there is another item that the linux firefox not able to read is the
>> orange time arrows (only show in text) on both side of the program in
>> the Radio times page http://www.radiotimes.com/tv/now.html . The
>> orange time arrows came back on only when If i change the time of the
>> program (as in change into a different page) or i use window firefox
>> to view the program.
> 
> My Windows Firefox doesn't display some of the graphics either:
> http://www.gunde.de/radiotimes.gif
> 
> On the page you linked the URL for the bullet:
> http://www.radiotimes.com/tv/images/rtdf2/orange_bullet.gif
> 
> On the other pages the URL for the bullet looks like this:
> http://www.radiotimes.com/images/rtdf2/orange_bullet.gif
> 
> Basically, in this case the page editor made a mistake, and it is not
> your browser's fault.
> 
>> do you know what config setting changes can improve the above
>> situations in my linux firefox?
> 
> I have the feeling that the Firefox cache is involved, and that emptying
> the cache on both installations and reloading the pages will make them
> behave the same.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Gunde
> 
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