Here is today’s online Boston Globe, as it appears in my Firefox browser, at home and at work. It works fine in IE and Chrome.
I understand that sh*t happens in the publishing business, I can accept that an online daily looks like this at 7:00a in the morning. Cross-browser compatibility was problem ten years ago. It should not be a problem today.
The Globe should NOT look like this at 7:00p in the evening.
Please share widely!
Thursday morning, same thing.
It’s hard to tell whether they don’t know they’ve broken their site or haven’t been able to fix it. Surely it’s not an intentional choice. Since Firefox is about 25-30% of the market, if I were an advertiser, I’d be looking for a 30% credit against my advertising — starting yesterday.
In any case, I guess I’ll be a Herald reader for awhile.
because Firefox was starting to get slow and unwieldy, and because I finally switched to Google email, calendar, etc. and abandoned Outlook. Still use both. The Globe page looks the same to me in both.
Are you running an old version of Firefox? Perhaps there is something wrong specifically with your configuration.
it’s not just BMG that wrestles with web-site bugs.
But seriously: This page renders fine for me with Firefox for Windows and for OS X. So maybe the Globe fixed it, or else maybe there is some browser setting or add-in or extension on your box that is doing this.
It looks like it was fixed sometime between 7:00a this morning and now.
I run Firefox v3.16 (my upgrade to v3.17 is just now downloading). I haven’t upgraded to v4 yet, because the Add-ons, plugins and extensions I use aren’t likely to be working yet.
I saw the same behavior on two different platforms (Vista and System 7), so I assume that the bug was Firefox-specific. It might well have been something that broke 3.16.
In any case, it now seems to work. A good thing, I really don’t like giving clicks to the Herald đŸ™‚