Firefox has @#$^! me for the last time

[psyko_x]

6 months ago a poorly coded bookmarks extensions deleted my entire IE bookmarks folder. all bookmarks and years worth of wallpapers sitting in my links folder.

What happened 10 min ago? I went to submit my programming assignment online with my newly downloaded firefox 2. The login process to my course website took longer than normal but I finally get to the submission page, but no wait, firefox cannot display the page properly! I fire up IE and submit the assignment only to get "deadline missed". omg I think i busted a blood vessel during the process.

I waited until 10 min before my deadline without giving it a second thought because I'm a college senior and I've been doing this for damn near 7 semesters. I never thought my browser would prevent me from submitting something on time. I missed the deadline by about 30 sec. god i'm ****ed right now

two strikes for firefox, NEVER using it again

[Slimy]

Couldn't you just do that "open in ie tab" thing they have in FF? I've never found FF any good, but that's just me. It's not really FF's fault that the page isn't displayed though, but when you're on IE, 99% of pages are guaranteed to work.

So what are you switching to? IE7, Opera 9 or something else?

[HoochieMamma]

It's your own fault you left it for so long :huh:

[gigapixels Veteran]

First strike was an extension that wasn't even made by Firefox developers.

As for the second strike, it's not Firefox's fault that your schools website is not designed for standards. Not to mention the fact that you should never assume that any website you haven't previously checked in Firefox will look okay. There are far too many websites out there not coded to standards and/or coded with ActiveX or some other proprietary IE technologies that cause them to be inaccessible to anything but IE.

If you're going to be ****ed, be ****ed at a) the developer of the bookmark extension you were using, and/or b) the designer of your school's website. Hell, you should be ****ed at yourself for waiting so long. But you shouldn't be ****ed at Firefox.

[Doli]

I waited until 10 min before my deadline

Another lesson, dont wait until the last minute (or last 10 minutes).

And the first strike is not FF's fault, it should be the bookmark extension you used.

[Nashy]

Owned.

[nonick]

thank god my uni uses linux as default and all their sites work properly with firefox..

but as general rule, since many sites are screwed in the head and don't know how to program.. IF anything that is important to do(such as online purchase, 1 time signups (that don't allow resignup if anythin screwed) etc I don't think twice and use IE.

Always be in the safer side, and oh its not your firefox's fault, its your uni's brilliant designers...

[Ash]

That sucks man, but if you've been using computers for any amount of time, you should know to backup stuff you don't wanna lose (like bookmarks folder) periodically. I've lost my IE bookmark folder (the whole thing) just vanished on me a couple times when I was using IE before i switched to Firefox. I've also had my bookmark file in firefox become unreadable a couple times when firefox crashed so it shows that the best was not to lose data is back it up.

Also the not displaying properly is either non compliant coding by the designer OR there was either a heavy load on the server so the server had trouble sending you all the data and it timed out and the browser rendered what was there and it came out garbled. This can especially happen under heavy server load especially if the pages use external .css style sheets with layout information and from the heavy load the .css file doesn't get loaded while the html page does so none of the formatting info for layers/divs etc... get processed.

It could also be just a dumb stroke of (un)luck and you had internet connection problems just at that moment. But since it was at the last minute (10 minutes) then it probably had to do with server load.

BTW : I do hate Firefox's bookmarking system, all the bookmarks contained in 1 file is just annoying, I do prefer the IE method!

[Lexcyn]

Owned.

QFT.

I usually use IE for anything important like that. Plus I don't wait until 10 minutes before the deadline ...

[jafoman]

That royally sucks. Have you ever used Firefox to upload assignments before? If so, you probably thought nothing of using Firefox 2. If not, what were you thinking?

[uniacidz]

I tend to agree.

I am still using IE6 as my backup browser. IE7 and i have some issues we have to sort out. Like favicons and disabling them.

But for more important banking etc, i use IE. Opera high second on my list

[Ently]

I guess next time you better give it some more time before you hand in your work ;)

[psyko_x]

- yea I know the extension isn't directly the fault of firefox developers but it still left a bad taste in my mouth

- the thing about server load was a good point, but I just checked the site again. no go. it just doesn't work in firefox

- I used firefox 1.5 for a long time and the submission page worked at the time. So they either changed the code for the website or ff 2.0 has a bug. I'm pretty sure it's the first reason though

- as for what browser I'll be using now, I'm going back to maxthon. ie7 is nice but the only plugin/extension I ever use is mouse gestures and it doesn't have that. Opera is close to perfection but I still has some small bugs/quirks

- I'm basically at the mercy of my professor. I emailed him but I have no idea if he's gonna give a crap. no matter what, in his eyes I'm going to look like an irresponsible, whiny little kid :(

edit: Ok so theres a bunch of suggestions that I should give myself more time...thx. Of course thats good advice, but you know what? Theres always deadlines and whatnot (in school and in the real world) and it's not always fair to tell someone, "completely your fault. you should have finished your work earlier. I would have finished much earlier." Sometimes you're just damn busy and it's tough to meet deadlines

Edited November 11, 2006 by psyko_x

[WhoTheF]

Well, you can partly blame FF for this but you have to realize its ur fault. Like the saying goes, "Time and tide waits for no man."

[primexx]

Neither point is Firefox's problem.

1) You should have backed up your data in the first place, knowing that you'll be messing with UNTESTED code. PLUS the problem caused by the code was solely the developer's fault, not Firefox's.

2) Waiting till the last minute is dumb, shouldent have done that. The website not working properly has NOTHING to do with Firefox, but EVERYTHING to do with your idiot of a webmaster (whomever it may be) who cant make proper webpages.

On both counts it's a result of your own stupidity and a third party's stupidity.