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)

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)