Some observant viewers may have noticed this blog had a meltdown yesterday. I discovered the culprit was a rogue media player I had installed as a plug in to embed Quicktime videos without the need to link. The result was it botched the layout in certain browsers.
I suppose I have been aware of all the web standards talk, especially after those wonderful evenings with Molly in January, but I have thought that it didn’t involve me. Well having a stoopid plugin ruin a layout in certain browsers made me grrrrrr…
I pretend I don’t know much about coding and operating systems and the like, but I probably know a little bit. (Hey Griff- have you cleared your cache recently? 
) I know that I describe myself as a blonde mac user and this positions me in a certain way, but one of the truths is that with web standards, everyone should have equal access.
I used Safari as my web browser of choice for many years. Last year, it decided to have a spacco when trying to access hotmail, so I found that I was still using Safari, but had Firefox open in order to read my hotmail. Then when this blog evolved, I discovered Safari didn’t like the visual formatter WordPress had so I chose to write blog posts and do blog related stuff in Firefox. Before long I moved almost all my workings to Firefox. Now I use Safari as my feed reader because it tells me exactly what feeds have been updated and what I have already looked at.
Now Firefox hasn’t been without its hiccups. It irked me that in my blogroll, I ♥ Risotto! was not shown with the ♥. It is now with FF3, but I wonder if it will be in this post. Of course when I looked at my blog in Safari it was there.
I love some of the add-ons I have installed for Firefox, especially Adblock Plus. And I have been able to install an Aussie dictionary- no more red underlines whenever I type colour or summarise!
So yes, I am pretty much set on using Firefox for most browsing activities. Now have you tried Firefox? Look, the reason I ask is that some bright spark thought it would be a good idea to try and create a world record for downloads of Firefox. Yep, you can read about it here! So get to it. Even if it is not today, I do recommend downloading it and having a go.
Oh and if my blog looks strange or different to what it has looked like in the past on your browser, please let me know!
