ALternative browser wont work with certain sites
 

My mr,s has a new lappy, we run firefox, and all is well ish :(

she uses a forum for mums, and it used to load fine, just recently when she tries to log in, it returns a 300 error. yet if she opens an Ie browser window it loads fine

she,s running firefox at the mo, (which weve iuninstalled and re installed)

Mart

Some websites aren't optimised to run in anything BUT IE........

Sorry. :)

Dan

The whole point of the web is the ability to pick up just about any computer from anywhere around the world and pull up a website.

BUT, there's a lot of ignorant "so called" web designers who create websites that only run on Internet Explorer. Unbelievably its a common problem - even the people responsible for BMW's UK websites are guilty of this as some of the database search results aren't coded correctly!

And don't even get me started on scalability!

but it does work in firefox, thats the whole point, it runs fine on my home pc and it used to run on the lappy, now it wont... any ideas

Mart

probably a cache problem

we run the ff clear cache occasionally, any idea,s what else it could be?

Mart

ahh. you didn't tell us that bit ;)

any updated firewall stuff?

Dan

whats the web address of the forum ?

yes this is a problem, some web designers dont code to stanards and think every user is running the same as them, its getting beter, in the mean time Firefox has a cool little plug-in which allows you to load up web pages in a IE tag within Firefox.

Firefox is amuch better broswer than IE, its a lot safer and runs much faster than IE, stick with it.

whats the plug in, and where do i find it??

Mart

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/

IE tab in Firefox, once installed just restart, then when ever you want to open a link in IE, right click select open in IE, jobs done.

give it a go see if it works.