OT : Firefox

Char Jackson wrote:
On Sun, 04 Jan 2015 00:57:04 -0500, Paul wrote:

At the rate I'm going, I may need a third browser that
can (somehow) fix those "mobile" sites. You got any
ideas how you can make the site formats change back
to the old desktop friendly format ? :-)

I mention that, because just today, cnn.com became
completely unusable, right before my eyes. I might as
well be looking at a news site... through a "coke bottle bottom".
I don't expect they make an add-on to fix stuff like that
(bad web coding).

Maybe I'm going to have to buy one of those screens
that is 5000 pixels wide. Just to keep up with this
madness.

Were you playing with your browser's User-Agent string, or was it caused by
something else? The site looks fine to me, but if they were having issues
they would have fixed it by now.


The big picture in the center changes every couple of seconds.
The four sub-pictures move to the left every couple of seconds.
There's a worthless crawler near the bottom of the screen. It's
like a page from one of those websites that used to keep track
of "worst-designed site". And there's more madness if a scroll
down or sideways - the fun never stops.

http://i60.tinypic.com/vrps9d.jpg

User-Agent as seen on the wire (from packet trace). Just to be sure.
Seamonkey is my browser with Flash in it.

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Firefox/16.0 SeaMonkey/2.13.2\r\n

I'm in Canada, and CNN do geolocate well enough on a normal day
to prompt with "would you like to see our Canadian version",
which I never respond to in any way.

I bet if I were to try m.cnn.com, it would look better...

Paul

On Sun, 04 Jan 2015 15:35:16 -0500, Paul wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:
On Sun, 04 Jan 2015 00:57:04 -0500, Paul wrote:

At the rate I'm going, I may need a third browser that
can (somehow) fix those "mobile" sites. You got any
ideas how you can make the site formats change back
to the old desktop friendly format ? :-)

I mention that, because just today, cnn.com became
completely unusable, right before my eyes. I might as
well be looking at a news site... through a "coke bottle bottom".
I don't expect they make an add-on to fix stuff like that
(bad web coding).

Maybe I'm going to have to buy one of those screens
that is 5000 pixels wide. Just to keep up with this
madness.

Were you playing with your browser's User-Agent string, or was it caused by
something else? The site looks fine to me, but if they were having issues
they would have fixed it by now.


The big picture in the center changes every couple of seconds.
The four sub-pictures move to the left every couple of seconds.
There's a worthless crawler near the bottom of the screen. It's
like a page from one of those websites that used to keep track
of "worst-designed site". And there's more madness if a scroll
down or sideways - the fun never stops.

http://i60.tinypic.com/vrps9d.jpg

User-Agent as seen on the wire (from packet trace). Just to be sure.
Seamonkey is my browser with Flash in it.

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Firefox/16.0 SeaMonkey/2.13.2\r\n

I'm in Canada, and CNN do geolocate well enough on a normal day
to prompt with "would you like to see our Canadian version",
which I never respond to in any way.

I bet if I were to try m.cnn.com, it would look better...

I don't understand, but I'm guessing you simply don't like the way they've
designed their site. Fortunately, there are lots of alternatives.