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Atamiramorning19:33
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ajmitchmorning21:36
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Ghow this seems like a great place to ask, anyone here had issues accessing the ASB site since the FF 8 update a while back?23:22
ojwbjust give me your login details and I'll take a look fot you23:28
Gojwb: well even just accessing the asb.co.nz homepage23:31
* ojwb doesn't have FF8 so can't easily check23:31
ojwbthere's a good chance someone will23:31
Gojwb: fair enough23:31
kcjG, I see the problem.23:32
Gkcj: it happens for you? Directs to their mobile site, and the click to their full site is broken?23:32
kcjYep.23:32
G(believe it to not, I told ASB about it over a month ago)23:34
kcjG, Found a solution.23:34
kcjG, Install a user agent switching addon and switch your user agent to IE 9.23:35
Gkcj: yeah exactly23:35
Gkcj: I got fed up though (cos I don't really like running addons etc) and this time send them a message via Fastnet, "Regrettably, ASB does not support the Ubuntu operating system. I am sorry."  (although he said say he was going to forward it again to the ones that manage the site, so that is something23:37
kcjLame.23:38
kcjWhy do you use firefox if you don't like add-ons?23:38
* ojwb prods his partner to see if she has a suitable windows FF at work23:39
Gojwb: oh it works in Windows23:39
ojwbah23:39
ojwbquality23:39
ojwbthat's ASB on the blacklist then23:39
Gfwiw: http://dev.nigelj.com/user-agent-change23:39
Gall I can see that has changed it, is that the "Ubuntu;" added before X1123:40
Gkcj: in answer to your question: FF Sync (between installations/computers/etc etc), when needed (which atm it is on one of my installations the addons like Firebug are pretty darn good), and I get good mileage out of it23:44
ojwbfirefox addons do sometimes seem to make it less stable23:45
ojwbthough it's hard to actually know what crashed it23:45
kcjThe only thing that's keeping me on FF is the add-ons.23:47
kcjOtherwise I'd be using Chrome.23:47
GI still don't like Chrome23:48
ojwbthe process separation is nice, but I think FF has that too now23:48
Gojwb: Chrome's separation is iirc per tab, where as FF's is 'firefox' and 'plugin-container'23:49
ojwboh, that's a lot less good23:49
Gbut it means if Flash/Java/etc get a bit pushy, you can just kill the plugin-container23:49
ojwbchrome is per tab for a while, and at some point it seems to put more than one tab in each process23:49
ojwbbut a tab dying doesn't kill the browser, just the tab itself and maybe a few others23:50
ojwbI don't run flash or java plugins, so they don't get a chance to take the browser down23:50
ojwbi suspect java is only useful if you have a particular application which needs it now23:50
ojwbi've not hit a site which seemed affected by lack of java for years23:51
GI have, but that is partly because I've wanted to use them and knew full well I'd need Java, so not a great example ;)23:51
kcjJava is good for Minecraft. :)23:53
Gkcj: anyway, thanks for confirming that it wasn't just me23:54
kcjnp23:55

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