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Mon 11 Feb 2008

Firefox Problem in Ubuntu Feisty – “The connection was reset” on certain sites

Posted by admin under firefox , linux , ubuntu
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Today I faced a strange bug caused by the interaction of the user-agent string of Firefox on ubuntu feisty and some paket filters. A site wouldn’t load with the error message above in Firefox, but it would load in Opera. Update of firefox package didn’t fix it.

Found this thread Connection Reset in Firefox but not other browsers and one proposed fix worked for me:

Open “about:config” , type useragent in filter and change setting “general.useragent.extra.firefoxComment” from (Ubuntu feisty) to (Ubuntu). The problem seems to be that substring “ist” is recognized as a malware signature by some paket filters.

 

Tue 3 Apr 2007

Firefox 2 demands correctness

Posted by admin under css , firefox , html , linux , software
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Was playing arround with CSS. Especially with dynamic style settings like :hover. I  was naiv enough to use just a simple
<html><head> as a header for my experimental page. It made me wonder why Firefox 2 would not handle div:hover correctly, because Opera and Konquerer did. Finally changed the header to

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHMTL 1.0 Transitional//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”> <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>

… and now it works.