For some time now I have been commenting about this forum's failure to function correctly with Firefox. I have both IE and Firefox on my work and home PCs yet Club-XM works fine in IE but not in FF.

FF is my preferred browser as it is for many others.

An example of the site's failure is when trying to open a photo attachment file you get a page of ASCII type code.

I went to open this tonight in the stolen trailer thread

http://club-xm.com/forum/index.php?act=At...e=post&id=30806

And here is the first few lines of error code

ÿØÿá8EExif��II*�.���.�...� ���ž���...�.���¾���...�.���Ö���...�.���.���..�.���î���...�.���ö���(..�.���.���1..�.���þ���2..�.���..��...�.���.���i‡.�.���&.��¥Ä.�..��2.��–.��OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA �OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD�X300,D565Z,C450Z��������H���.���H���.���v752-76�������������������������0000:00:00 00:00:00�PrintIM�0250��.�.�.�.�.�.���.�ˆ���.�����.�����

I have not encountered this on any other forum even those using PHP.

Could the moderators please do something about this?

[rant over]

Thanks!

This site works perfectly with Firefox... its the way FF handles picture downloads, if you point OVER a link to a pic etc, and right click and choose download, or save I think it is, it will save it seperatly to your desktop or chosen destination, you can then view the file at leasure then...

Fire fox is also my prefered browser, and once I learnt about this Im over the moon with FF, IE is complete s@@@@@

All the best

Paul

I only use Fitrefox by choice and have done for years as a natural progression from Netscape.

It's the same for me - the file saved to the computer for opening later is an index.php
file and sometimes it's not obviously apparent if it's a picture that needs opening in
Photoshop or a crappy Word document (you can tell I loathe Microsoft being a Macman.

I certainly can't see ANY pdf files though sadly Internet Exploder does on my Mac...

Andrew

I too only use firefox, this site works fine on FF unless you want to view an attached picture. Then ill either do the above and save it, or open up (the dreaded) explorer and use that.

Hi UFO

I suggest you have a look at the earlier item on the "future of this site" and you will see that the site is pretty much fixed in the form that it was originally developed and not within the members hands to change. Even moderation seems to be on the back burner. Of course the fact that it is semi fossilised in this form may be one of the reasons that it appeals to so many XM owners and is so successful. If there was much wrong with it then it would have been overtaken by other sites and withered and died long ago.

John

My understanding of the problem is that it is the forum's problem, not Firefox. The attachments are being served as text/html, which is A. wrong but importantly B. certain to confuse anything that isn't Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer uses type guessing, meaning in most cases you can throw almost any data in its direction and it'll render it appropriately. In the case of Firefox, that stream must be served as text/plain for its form of guessing to work. If it receives a page served as text/html, which it currently is, it'll display it as an HTML page. That is after all how the server described it.

In an ideal world, the forum software here should be serving attachments as image/png or whatever - that way everyone will be happy.

If you add the IE tab add-on and then right click and select 'open in IE tab' witchcraft happens and pictures appear.

??? im with aol and have no problems?

Ahh another Bill Gates sucker....

Theres more to life then IE, AOL and windows!

Aol is also crap with links... Emails NEVER contain a live link in them and you have to copy and paste a link in an email into the address bar...

Sorry, couldn't resist that..

Of course, it may very well work ok with this site... but I know what Id prefer to use..

Paul

aol, oops mines just gone pearshaped, freezing, not downloading, all after an update? to a new server?? my fierfox browser seems to work fine?

Hi Terry

Regularly been through the AOL update saga over the last six months. The new server kept resetting our wireless router after which everything fell over. Could not stop it automatically causing mayhem every week or so. AOL help desk eventually solved it for us by telling me we were using a non supported router. The only cure in our case was to move to a new ISP. SWMBO organised that (O2)and got a much better price. While this was happening AOL offered to halve their costs (still more expensive) then told us we were tied into contract termination fees of about £100 (we argued and they could not prove any evidence of a contract so no fee was charged).

John

Serif Photo Plus is free image processing software, you could call it mini Photoshop. Images posted on this forum can easily be opened if you use Firefox like I do, too.