Forum:FireFox 4 problems and oddities


 * Issues that appear to have been resolved have been moved to Forum:FireFox 4 problems and oddities/resolved. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 28 Mar 2011 2:23 PM Pacific

Update From Wikia Staff

 * Copied from here. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 28 Mar 2011 2:23 PM Pacific

Users with Firefox 4 should now be able to edit the site just as on Firefox 3; this fix went live a few hours ago. The issue was that some JS changes in FF4 meant the browser did not recognize some basic functions on Wikia, such as the edit window.

Alpha/Beta/RC browsers are very tricky to handle because obviously we want to make sure that when they are released that they are compatible with our site, but then again our techies have to weigh that against other important bugs. Technically, our site does not yet support Firefox 4 because it has not been officially released and thus the user group is very, very small. And, of course, conversely we need to know about these issues ahead of time because we can't just flip a switch to make our site browser compatible.

In other words, use beta browsers on Wikia at your own risk. If you love testing beta browsers (and I personally am someone who does) and see something not working, please, as always, contact us. Just be prepared to have to use an older version or a different browser on Wikia as a fallback if you are beta testing. --daNASCAT http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (help forum | blog) 21:05, March 22, 2011 (UTC)

General comments
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Drop down menus problem

 * Copied from here. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 28 Mar 2011 2:23 PM Pacific

I recently upgraded today and have a problem with the drop down menus. The drop down menus, especially the wikia global header, stick for a long time. I never had this problem in 3.6 but now every time I mouse over one of the drop down menus, the menu stays down infinitely unless I hover over a link and then move my mouse away. Should I switch tabs when the menu is down, it will stay down until I return to the tab and mouse over a link before retracting the mouse..--


 * I get this same issue as well in FF4 as well as certain elements from JS nor functioning normally. daNASCAT, do you have a link I can read up on the changes of FF4's JS handling? Rappy 04:11, March 30, 2011 (UTC)


 * Firefox 4 is no longer beta, but I still have the upper menu sticking too often. It's driving me crazy.  In addition to that, it may take one second for the menu to disappear in Safari (my secondary browser).  I wish the menu had an open/close tab and that it would ONLY open when I want it to.  This is seriously upsetting to me.  --Liliana (my talk). 05:59, April 2, 2011 (UTC)


 * Add Safari to the list, it disappears about a second after I take the cursor away from it. In my opinion it should be more responsive than that.  As soon as the cursor moves away from the menu it should go away.  This wouldn't be such a big issue if it wasn't for the fact that the menu up top is HUGE!!  I'd rather have a small strip that activates if you leave the mouse on top of it long enough, or an open/close tab.  Like I mentioned above, this is seriously upsetting, I work in at least 12 wikis a day, this is slowing me down massively!!!  --Liliana (my talk). 06:05, April 2, 2011 (UTC)
 * Those menus are supposed to do that. Add  to your CSS. Problem solved.


 * Thanks, it fixed the issue completely. I have added it to my css file.  --Liliana (my talk). 05:01, April 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * Apparently this isn't a FF4/Wikia issue. I am noticing this same issue outside of Wikia. Java hover-overs on another site will stick open once mouse-over'd until you quickly mouse-over and out before it opens the pop-up. It seems something was changed in the way FF4 deals with the mouseout function. Wikia might be able to address this issue and create a work-around, but it would be better suited informing Mozilla about it. Rappy 06:58, April 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, this doesn't help me, and I really don't care what happens in another site. I am not an admin in those sites, I am an admin in Wikia wikis with 34,000+ edits.  Not to want to beat on a dead horse, but never before the introduction of Oasis had Wikia sorted to pop-up menus as a form of wiki interaction.  In the common wiki, I am counting SIX pop-ups, PLUS the one I just removed, with the HUGE drawer coming from the top.  The only pop-up I remember in Monaco was the MediaWiki:Monaco-sidebar which was out of the user's way (to the middle-left) in a way that it wouldn't conflict with browser functions (like the browser's bookmarks bar and address bar AND the computer's Windows taskbar).  I just found that I HAD TO modify the settings in my computer to not "auto-hide the taskbar" in Windows and not to "auto-hide the dock" in my Mac because EVERY time I need to go to Wikia My Tools menu, keeps bringing up my taskbar and dock.  But really?  I have to remove a setting I've been using for years?  I have 2 laptops so my biggest resolution in the newest is 1366x768, the other is worse 1024x768.  Do I also have to move my taskbar and dock from the bottom of the screen to the left or right even though I've been using it like that for years?!  That will take months of getting used to!  Maybe this is a "cute" thing for new users who rarely edit on a wiki, but for someone who works in 10+ wikis a day this is a BIG handicap.  --Liliana (my talk). 01:06, April 6, 2011 (UTC)


 * We are not turning this into a Monaco/Oasis debate. The problem stems from Firefox, not Wikia. Issue solved, let's move on.--

Forum 'New' images
These are shown on every forum thread in the last 7 days with FF4. With FF3.61, they only showed if I hadn't visited the thread since it was updated. It is now impossible to tell which threads I have viewed and which ones I haven't because even threads I view still show the 'new' image. Rappy 07:27, March 31, 2011 (UTC)


 * I get this too - and in Chrome, actually.


 * Been getting this problem in Chrome for a long, long time &mdash; more than a year, probably... The 888th Avatar   (talk)  01:29, April 2, 2011 (UTC)