mozilla firefox does not work with comcast home page. why?

shortfox971 · Post by **shortfox971** » July 10th, 2004, 8:35 pm

:evil:
tell me why my home page is missing important icons and sign in greeting. when mirosoft internet browser work totally fine.
i down loaded all i can to make this work. nothing is working for me

firemonkey · Post by **firemonkey** » July 10th, 2004, 8:51 pm

Well, do you have a link to the page? Did you create the home page and fi so what did you use? Some microsoft programs chose to use the wrong slash (\ instead of /) when saving locations to files (for images and such) which work fine in IE because they hack the browser to death to accept all sorts of wierd crap. FF on the other hand handles only valid URLs and paths.

shortfox971 · Post by **shortfox971** » July 10th, 2004, 8:56 pm

it is comcast normal hope page but it idenifies me and all their options they offer. www.comcast.net

shortfox971 · Post by **shortfox971** » July 10th, 2004, 8:57 pm

home page, sorry

Racer · Post by **Racer** » July 10th, 2004, 9:00 pm

A possible problem is that you are blocking cookies for the website and whatever moron that wrote it assumed you have cookies enabled. Once I allowed cookies, the site worked perfectly.

shortfox971 · Post by **shortfox971** » July 10th, 2004, 9:06 pm

how and where do i enable cookies(what flavor are they ,:)

shortfox971 · Post by **shortfox971** » July 10th, 2004, 9:11 pm

i found my cookies and they are enabled

firemonkey · Post by **firemonkey** » July 10th, 2004, 9:15 pm

Have you disabled javascript? I know this site relys on it for the navigation panel and possibly sign in.

shortfox971 · Post by **shortfox971** » July 10th, 2004, 9:19 pm

i will try again
,thanks

Norm · Post by **Norm** » July 10th, 2004, 9:32 pm

Works for me

shortfox971 · Post by **shortfox971** » July 10th, 2004, 9:38 pm

can you tell me if you did anything different

YFan · Post by **YFan** » July 10th, 2004, 10:44 pm

Firefox 0.9.x have some display problems that Mozilla's seamonkey version does not seem to have. bug #250023 for example. The general comcast.net page looked only a little different in Fx though... namely that the sign-in box's border is a little bit into the text next to it. On Moz 1.7.1, there is a little bit of white space in between.

J-Mac · Post by **J-Mac** » July 10th, 2004, 10:50 pm

You must install the Macromedia Flash plug-in to view Comcast.net's pages.

Sam FT · Post by **Sam FT** » July 10th, 2004, 11:01 pm

I am current comcast user and I have noticed this for awhile. Everything on the comcast page works fine expect the assistant (tool that is on the right side of the screen). Assistant is to show customize favorite things like lastest movies, weather, etc. And the assistant tool doesn't work when using FF. And the other thing that doesn't work is the "Fan" icon at the top of the website. That feature only works in IE, so that is why comcast has a link in the middle page for people to click on.

the-edmeister · Post by **the-edmeister** » July 10th, 2004, 11:04 pm

J-Mac wrote:You must install the Macromedia Flash plug-in to view Comcast.net's pages.

Incorrect. They use a javascript Flash detection script so that if Flash is installed it gets used for the left column menus (and something else - I forget as I no longer have Flash installed).

The page displays correctly for me - with or without Flash.