Why I’ve come to loathe Firefox
For the last few updates - maybe starting with Firefox 2.0 - that browser has caused me more trouble than it’s worth. It keeps caching pages when they’re all screwy, and absolutely nothing I do will force it to refresh the cache. Opera doesn’t do this. IE doesn’t do this.
I’ve spent hours and hours trying to fix things that weren’t broken, because Firefox kept showing me messed-up versions of my pages. Usually it’s page not found, but today it did something truly spectacular: it served me up a version of this site with no posts. I went into the WordPress admin panel and the posts weren’t in there, either! I went into the database, and there they all sat.
Hmm. I opened up IE - posts present and accounted for. I tried Opera - ditto. Now Firefox is acknowledging the posts if I go to them individually - except for the most recent one - but still claims there’s nothing on the home page.
Anybody know of another browser that saves sessions on crash? As far as I can figure out, Opera’s not there yet and I don’t even know if IE cares about that. That’s the only feature keeping me on Firefox right now.
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Asa Dotzler Said,
April 27, 2007 @ 2:12 pm
Try holding down the shift key when you hit the reload button. It sounds like you’ve made a change to a style sheet and Firefox has that cached. Shift+Reload should refetch the style sheet and clear things up.
Sapphire Said,
May 1, 2007 @ 2:10 pm
I did try that, Asa. It didn’t work.
Eventually, the problem stopped happening and I haven’t had any more trouble since. But this is the third or fourth time something like this has happened in just the past few months.