Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's

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Posted by: Eddie on May 23, 2011 at 18:39:06
In Reply to: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's Posted by: susan on May 23, 2011 at 15:01:40

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Operating System:	Windows Vista Home Premium SP2 (32-bit)
Browser(s):	Firefox 4.0.1 and 3.6.17

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susan posted:

I have just upgraded my Firefox from v3.6.17 to v4.0.1.
Have had no insurmountable problems, except here at Ed's.

I like to read Ed's Date Index page and start at the new messages (and the poll) section.  This is where Ed has put his anchor tag named "read".

I can still get there, but not as cleanly as I used to.  Here is the 'problem':

On my FF Bookmarks Toolbar I have a bookmark for Ed's which has Location = http://www.mistered.us/cgi-bin/bydate.cgi#read
The "Properties" of this bookmark have not changed in years!

After opening a new FF 4 session, the first time I click on my Ed's bookmark, as before it begins by opening at the top of the page, but it no longer then jumps to the #read tag location as it is supposed to and as it used to do with FF 3.x and before.  Pressing F5 or clicking the Reload page button does not help.

But if I then immediately, or at any later time during that FF 4 session, click a second time on my Ed bookmark, it does go correctly to the #read  tag = Read New Message.
This seems rather weird to me.  Anyone have a clue as to why this happens?

I tried disabling ALL my FF 4 Plugins and Add-Ons in FF 4 and restarting it, but the same 'problem' occurs.

So then I uninstalled v4.0.1 and reinstalled v3.6.17 - yea! no more problem! My bookmark works correctly again the first time I click on it - it opens page at top and then jumps to #read .

Hi Susan

That's interesting as I have not changed that link, it's as it was when I first created it, so I would have to say that the new Firefox v4.0.1 isn't loading that page properly as I think you've already assumed.

Now somewhat in defense of Firefox v4.0.1, I have to point out that the page in question is NOT a 'static' web page as the Threaded Index page is, but instead is a 'dynamic' web page that has to be sort of 'configured' on the fly as it loads each time.

What I mean by that is that it's a .cgi (Perl) script that runs on my web host's server to first count all of the message files on the server, then allocate the latest (newest) 100 message files to links in the main page that your link is for, then the next 100 message files for the 2nd page that isn't yet loaded but is used to determine the [Next[ navigation link in each of the Date Index pages that can be loaded.

This process is repeated throughout all of the available message files until the last (oldest) message file is processed for the [Oldest Posts] navigation link in each of the Date Index pages that can be loaded. Then, and only then can the main Date Index page be loaded.

This process may seem to require a lot of time, but in reality it's finished in a matter of seconds, or less, depending on external conditions of the Internet at that time.

That being explained, I will state that this is a common task for web servers as it's been since these scripts were first used, so I have to associate the issue with the new Firefox v4.0.1.

Eddie
(Mr. Ed)

Follow-ups:

Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - Dana 05/23/11 20:24:42
- Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - susan 05/23/11 20:40:22
  - Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - Eddie 05/24/11 02:23:13
    - Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - susan 05/24/11 06:29:31
      - Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - Eddie 05/24/11 13:09:22
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - susan 05/24/11 16:05:33
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - Eddie 05/25/11 02:20:34
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - Eddie - Att: Susan 05/25/11 15:37:54
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - susan 05/26/11 12:34:13
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - Eddie 05/26/11 14:01:44
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - susan 05/26/11 18:47:57
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - Eddie 05/27/11 02:19:27
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - susan 05/27/11 07:28:12
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - susan 05/27/11 07:47:20
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - susan 05/27/11 08:23:09
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - susan - forget browsershots 05/27/11 09:29:19
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - Eddie 05/27/11 14:08:00
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - Eddie - Att: Susan 05/28/11 03:22:11
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - susan 05/28/11 12:40:19
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - oldwolf 05/27/11 14:52:48
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - Eddie 05/27/11 18:27:41
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - oldwolf 05/29/11 14:11:20
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - Eddie 05/30/11 01:14:09
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - susan - to Eddie !! 06/01/11 17:10:29
        
        Re: Firefox 4 problem at Ed's - Eddie 06/02/11 02:58:55

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