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@sweynh tweets: #StupidElectronicSigns don't just exist in #Orkney . This at #Waverly Maybe I'll start an error msg gallery!



It is possible to customize the client-side error messages displayed by Firefox. If I were in the electronic sign business, and my signs required connecting to remote servers for content displayed by Firefox, I think I'd consider customizing the error pages.

Never share your computer with your girlfriend

I found this old bug report in the Mozilla bug database. Is exposing liars a bug or a feature? ;)

Bug 330884 - When different users on one system choose to save or not save passwords for sites, any other user can see sites they not only saved passwords for but can also see what other users have been saving/never saving passwords for.

naomirocks 2006-03-17 15:48:21 PST

User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

This privacy flaw has caused my fiancé and I to break-up after having dated for 5 years.

Basically, we share one computer but under separate Windows XP user accounts. We both use Mozilla Firefox -- well, he used to use it more than I do but now we don't really use it. The privacy flaw is this: when he went to log-in under his dating sites (jdate.com, swinglifestyle.com, adultfriendfinder.com, etc.), Mozilla promptly asks whether or not he'd like Firefox to save the passwords for him. He chose never, obviously. However, when he logged off his user account, and I logged onto my Windows XP account X amount of days later, I decided to use Firefox because hey -- it loaded everything much more efficiently, was better to work on with website designs and is a lot more stable than IE7beta2.

Firefox prompted whether or not I'd like it to save my password for logging into my website. I chose never and changed my mind. I went into the Password Manager to change the saved password option from Never to Always and that's when I saw all these other sites that had been selected as "Never Save Password." Of course, those were sites I had never visited or could ever dream of visiting.

Then I realized who, how and what... and sh*t hit the fan. Your browser does not efficiently respect the privacy of different users for one system.

Reproducible: Always

Click here to read more...

Sorry, you may not install other browsers

I have a new computer. One of the first things I do once I get it set up enough to connect to the Internet, is attempt to install a browser other than Internet Explorer.

I start with Chrome.



That's not good. The installer failed. I try again and get the same error. However, on the second attempt it doesn't show me the Chrome terms of use. I click the "Show me help for this issue." link.




Cool! Google has no information about the error.

However, Internet Explorer reports an error viewing this web page telling me there is no information on the error.



Nice. Null is null. Anyway, I'm getting distracted. So I go try another browser.

This time I try Firefox.



That doesn't work either.

To make a long story short, I discovered that I had to turn Internet Explorer's "Protected Mode" off and restart the browser. Even then, I could download and install Firefox but not Chrome. I then had to download Chrome using Firefox instead of Internet Explorer.

Does "Protection Mode" refer to protecting me from all browsers that aren't from Microsoft? ;)

Legitimate banks will not ask you to do this

According to Firefox, Wells Fargo is not a legitimate bank. I encounter security certificate errors about one out of every five visits to Wells Fargo's online banking web site.

Wells Fargo gave me a t-shirt with this URL on it. As we all know, printing a URL on a t-shirt makes it legit. Right? ;)

And why does Firefox first tell me the certificate is not valid but then report "This site provides valid, verified identification. There is no need to add an exception." when I try to add an exception?

Perhaps Wells Fargo should send the Firefox people at Mozilla some t-shirts too.

Ridiculous?

aravindajith - Most ridiculous error of the decade! 

portfolia - @aravindajith That drives me absolutely crazy.
 
gosquared - Oh dear. This error makes me feel sick
 
krizsa - Wow..



I don't believe warning users that a site may not be compatible with their browser is ridiculous -- if it actually isn't compatible.  However, I don't think that's the case here.

I tried this site with IE7, Firefox 3.5, and Chrome.  I got no warning dialog with IE7. I got two of them with Firefox. And with Chrome, I got one warning dialog.

I then explored the site and found nothing that failed to work with Chrome or Firefox.

A quick look at the page source reveals checks for browser names of WebTV and Navigator that trigger error dialogs.  I thought that, perhaps, this check for WebTV and Navigator is code that's been on the site for a very long time. So I took a look at the WayBack Machine and discovered that the code was likely added around January 2007.  Perhaps a lot of people use WebTV in Aggieland.

Or you can add an exception...

“Mozilla Slowfox error..hmmm” - @BjornHansson

Or? To what is adding an exception an alternative?

Irony Spike

Submitted by James Bach.



Yes, there was a problem viewing a YouTube video of an Is There A Problem Here? video in Google Reader in Firefox.

Contact the application's support team... Which application? Firefox? Google Reader? YouTube? Microsoft? Adobe/Macromedia?

Because

Why display a message stating that the computer has no network connection when you can display "because: Download error -228"?

How many times must I login?

One of my favorite features in Firefox is the ability to close the browser and have it remember what I was viewing and reload those pages automatically when I restart the browser. This feature usually works great at home and on the road.

However, when I launch Firefox at the office, I get something like the following:

Firefox 3 displays a proxy login dialog for every tab that accesses data outside the corporate intranet. This is quite annoying. (Firefox 2 only prompted to login to the proxy once -- no matter how many tabs were being opened.)

To view Microsoft content, download Firefox

Is Microsoft really directing me to download a competitor's product to view their content?