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Another problem that has shown up recently with blogger.com recently is some strange behavior under Firefox v2.0.0.4 and v2.0.0.5 - specifically, the Posting interface, when certain buttons are clicked, does not behave as expected.

For instance, the "Link&qut; button [supposed to add an HTML anchor (A) element in the text box where the blog post is entered and/or edited:

When the link button is clicked, Firefox apparently initiates a "Drag and Drop" operation for the button image. The URL entry box pops up as expected, but the pointer cursor is changed to indicate that a drag/drop is in progress, and if the user clicks within the URL entry field on the popup, the URL of the button image [at blogger.com] is pasted into the URL entry field. If the user clicks outside the text entry field on the popup, the "drop" part of the drag/drop operation fails silently and text can be entered.

For some reason the drag operation does not provide the "NO" symbol cursor on screen areas which will not accept the dragged image.

This is almost certainly a Firefox issue, rather than Blogger issue, but it is possible that it is something funky w/ the Javascript Blogger uses. I have not examined the Javascript source or tried to replicate this error on other sites or with other browsers (although the same issue does exist with Iceweasel under Debian).

Labels: blogger, bug, firefox, iceweasel

posted by pd wilson   #   04:51

I've been using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.x under Windows XP and I have found a clue to the source of the problem that can be seen when resizing the Firefox browser window horizontally and the [Firefox] vertical scroll scroll bar - at some seemingly arbitrary point - disapears under the right edge of the shrinking window.

I tried to look this problem up using Google, but I didn't find much - just some forum posts on a forum I've already forgotten the name and URI of. However, there was a vital clue in the lengthy thread which didn't apply to my situation directly: the problem is triggered by some characteristic or behavior of the Status Line.

There was also some other mention of the Status bar in the threads I looked at. Someone complained that when they removed the weather.com widget from their status bar the problem cleared...

To make a long story short, I had installed a fairly large number of widgets ("add-ons") that took over various bits and chunks of the status line.

The point at which the vertical scroll bar disappears is the point at which the status bar reaches its minimum possible width based on the combined widths of whatever widgets you have installed on the status bar.

Simple, huh? Well, it took me a minute to work it out, so I thought I would share...

Labels: bug, firefox, mozilla

posted by pd wilson   #   09:42