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Title: Site doesn't work with Firefox?
Post by: roseway on May 05, 2009, 11:14:13 AM

Could somebody please do me a favour, and see if the following site works with Firefox? Using FF in Linux, I just see a border with a blank centre and no content, although the proper display is shown initially before disappearing again.

http://www.southern-electric.co.uk/

Title: Re: Site doesn't work with Firefox?
Post by: camallison on May 05, 2009, 11:15:13 AM

Works perfectly with FF 3.0.10 running under XP Pro SP3

Title: Re: Site doesn't work with Firefox?
Post by: toulouse on May 05, 2009, 11:16:29 AM

Hello Eric,

I have just tried the link that you supplied and it seems to work OK for me.

I'm using Firefox 3.0.10 on Windows XP.

HTH

toulouse

Title: Re: Site doesn't work with Firefox?
Post by: roseway on May 05, 2009, 11:20:16 AM

Thanks guys. As I suspected, it's something Linux related.

Title: Re: Site doesn't work with Firefox?
Post by: UncleUB on May 05, 2009, 11:22:00 AM

Its fine here also,using FF3 and Windows Vista.

Title: Re: Site doesn't work with Firefox?
Post by: roseway on May 05, 2009, 11:44:59 AM

Thanks :)

Title: Re: Site doesn't work with Firefox?
Post by: tonyappuk on May 05, 2009, 11:49:50 AM

Just tried it in Debian and it fails.
Tony

Title: Re: Site doesn't work with Firefox?
Post by: roseway on May 05, 2009, 12:53:15 PM

Thanks Tony, that confirms what I thought.

Title: Re: Site doesn't work with Firefox?
Post by: kitz on May 05, 2009, 02:12:50 PM

Is working fine for me on XP + FF.
However doing a check on the site shows some coding errors which may stop it displaying properly.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.southern-electric.co.uk%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0

Title: Re: Site doesn't work with Firefox?
Post by: roseway on May 05, 2009, 03:02:50 PM

Thanks for that. I'll copy the W3C validator link to them.

Title: Re: Site doesn't work with Firefox?
Post by: kitz on May 05, 2009, 03:24:06 PM

May also like to check out this which I submitted about an hour ago (It takes a while for all the test results to come through)

http://browsershots.org/http://www.southern-electric.co.uk/

But from the results so far it looks like the following browsers arent displaying properly

Having probs with

Opera 9.64 - Fedora
Epiphany 2.22 - Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Iceape 1.1.13 & Debian Testing
Safari 4.0 & Windows XP

Major problems with

Firefox 2.0.0.19 & Ubuntu 7.10
Navigator 9.0.0.6 & Windows XP
MSIE 5.5 & Windows XP
Iceweasel 3.0.4 & Debian Testing

Title: Re: Site doesn't work with Firefox?
Post by: kitz on May 05, 2009, 03:37:26 PM

In case that clears.. full results just come in

Quote

Linux
Dillo 0.8 failed
Dillo 2.0 uploaded
Epiphany 2.22 uploaded
Firefox 1.5 expired
Firefox 2.0 uploaded
Firefox 3.1 expired
Flock 1.2 expired
Flock 2.0 expired
Galeon 2.0 uploaded
Iceape 1.1 uploaded
Iceweasel 2.0 expired
Iceweasel 3.0 uploaded
Kazehakase 0.5 uploaded
Konqueror 3.5 failed
Minefield 3.6 expired
Navigator 9.0 expired
Opera 10.0 uploaded
Opera 9.64 uploaded
SeaMonkey 1.1 uploaded
SeaMonkey 2.0 expired
Shiretoko 3.5 expired

Windows
Avant 11.7 uploaded
Chrome 0.4 expired
Chrome 1.0 uploaded
Chrome 2.0 uploaded
Firefox 0.9 expired
Firefox 1.5 failed
Firefox 2.0 uploaded
Firefox 3.1 uploaded
Flock 1.2 expired
Flock 2.0 uploaded
K-Meleon 1.5 uploaded
MSIE 4.0 expired
MSIE 5.5 uploaded
MSIE 6.0 uploaded
MSIE 7.0 uploaded
MSIE 8.0 uploaded
Minefield 3.6 expired
Navigator 8.1 expired
Navigator 9.0 uploaded
Opera 0.27 expired
Opera 10.0 uploaded
Opera 7.54 uploaded
Opera 8.54 uploaded
Opera 9.64 uploaded
Safari 3.2 uploaded
Safari 4.0 uploaded
SeaMonkey 1.1 uploaded
SeaMonkey 2.0 uploaded
Shiretoko 3.1 uploaded

Mac OS
Firefox 3.0 expired
Safari 3.2 expired

Title: Re: Site doesn't work with Firefox?
Post by: roseway on May 05, 2009, 03:44:06 PM

>> Iceweasel 3.0.4 & Debian Testing

That's what I'm using (Iceweasel is just a rebranded Firefox) except that it's version 3.0.9.

I do appreciate the trouble you're going to. As you might have guessed, I've just changed energy supplier to Southern Electric, and I need to access their website to submit meter readings. For the moment I've had to use IE6 with the Wine emulator, which is a less than ideal way to do it.

Title: Re: Site doesn't work with Firefox?
Post by: kitz on May 05, 2009, 08:12:07 PM

>> I do appreciate the trouble you're going to.


Was no problem at all. 
The w3 site I use a lot as I run my own pages through there, so it was a < 1 min task for me to check that one.
Generally speaking if it passes the w3 test then it should be ok in most browsers.

The other site is one I knew of..  doesnt take long to start a request off..  just takes a while for them to run all the tests and publish the results.

Title: Re: Site doesn't work with Firefox?
Post by: tnp on June 28, 2009, 03:12:16 PM

FWIW it works fine for me with latest stable debian lenny and real firefox - not iceweasel.

Didn't try iceweasel.

Title: Re: Site doesn't work with Firefox?
Post by: roseway on June 28, 2009, 04:03:06 PM

I'm embarrassed to see that I failed to report back on this. I reported the problem to Southern Electric, and they admitted that there was a problem, and gave me an alternative address which didn't use Flash (although Flash works perfectly well on my system). Since then, something has changed in the site, and it now works fine for me.