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April 16, 2005
Turns out MovableType does work in Firefox
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Update: I just got back from a long weekend visiting my adorable new nephew Jackson, and when I went to try and update my MT blog from within Firefox, this time everything worked fine (which is bizarre, since I didn't do anything to upgrade either my MT install or Firefox, but hey, I'm not complaining) So I don't know what kind of glitch I was experiencing btwn MT and Firefox, but it appears to have been temporary :)
So I just got a slew of emails allerting me to the huge load of comment spam that just arrived on my demo MovableType site over at Online Travelogue.com (which I haven’t put more work into developing b/c I’ve decided I prefer WordPress to MT when it comes to hosted weblog solutions). I don’t know why these guys even bother – I have it set so every comment must be manually approved, so their spam never shows up on my pages. BUT ANYWAY, I digress..
So I click the link in my email to ‘edit this comment’, and since I’ve switched from using Internet Explorer to Firefox, of course this launched a window in Firefox prompting me to log in. So I log in (AND, I check the checkbox for “Remember Me”). I click on the comments link – and it starts asking me to login again (didn’t I justdo that?). So I login again, and now it shows me the page of comments and I click ‘check all’ and then click ‘delete’ and guess what? It asks me to login again. Which I do. And then it asks me if I’m sure I want to delete 1 comment (I’m trying to delete 20), and I click yes, and guess what???? It asks me to login again, which, after doing, prompts me with another ‘are you sure you want to delete 1 comment’, after which I decide it’s time to launch IE. Sure enough, I login with IE once, and everything goes smooth as silk. With so many users switching to Firefox these days, how is it that something as popular as movable type doesn’t work in that browser (at least not the UI for the blog owner).
Anyone else have problems using MT with Firefox?
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We test MT extensively on Firefox (and lots of us here at 6A use Firefox) so it might be a specific bug on that install, but it's not likely to be a fundamental problem in MT.
Posted by: Anil | Apr 15, 2005 8:59:43 PM
I cant see my smileys anymore :( Found a fix for the i/b/url bttns, but not smileys.
Posted by: Jess | Apr 30, 2005 2:57:59 AM
OFF TOPIC (couldnt find an email link so i try this way)
I have a typepad already, but i want to make an e-newspaper - like www.jp.dk (kind of a mixture between a blog and a website really)
i do know html and that, but do you know of a blog tool that could do this for me? Can movable type?
Mikkel
Posted by: mikkel | Jun 18, 2005 5:52:31 PM
Yes, if I go to a MT blog and try to comment in firefox, the login link to typepad does not appear (it does in IE) and doing it manually (putting in the URL and logging in then going back to comment) doesn't work.
Except that it hasn't corrected itself.
Posted by: rightwingprof | Nov 2, 2005 4:48:07 PM
Personally I use MyIE2 because I do not know any more what good browsers.
Posted by: Lizy | Dec 15, 2005 2:07:22 PM
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