kill the radio » firefox http://blog.killtheradio.net or die trying Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:21:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Another firefox gripe http://blog.killtheradio.net/technology/another-firefox-gripe/ http://blog.killtheradio.net/technology/another-firefox-gripe/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:37:05 +0000 Andrew Lyon http://blog.killtheradio.net/?p=207 So, being a web developer, I like to sometimes see when problems arise in my code. Thanks to the latest and greatest from firefox, this is now that much harder. Great. Another “feature” of theirs…almost as useful as the memory leak feature that still haunts me to this day. Here’s what I’m talking about:

firefox bullshit

Ever see this? The file upload.php exists at that location. Checking the source shows that, indeed, the script loaded and threw and error. Why then, pray tell, does firefox insist on persisting in its endeavour to destroy my life and career and steal all my friends?

I’ve found no documentation of this “feature” so have been thus far unable to get rid of it. Any ideas?

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You think that’s bad? Try using google maps with newer versions of firebug. It completely hangs. There isn’t a whole lot of info on this, but try it. Load a page that uses the JS google maps API and it will wait for gg.google.com indefinitely. Turn off firebug and what happens? OMG it wurkz fine!

Firebug: please revert to your older and much more useful interface, and fix your stupid gmaps problems (perhaps take a look at how a 204 http code is supposed to work lol hax wtf). Also, if you can’t make your interface useful, can you at least quit fucking it up more and more? kkthxbai

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