Nothing has changed here....on Firefox 46.0


Best Regards......George

FireFox 47 does this very odd behavior as described by the OP - nothing else changed on the base OS system.

Will probably need to include report of which OS system - here XP ServicePack3

FF 47.0 works fine here. No such problems.

Haven't seen any problems here, mostly using Edge.

"FireFox 47 does this very odd behavior"

Come to think of it. This odd behavior may have started when I upgraded Firefox to v47 a few days ago.

I mentioned Java because Firefox and Google Chrome will no longer support it. You will see a menu pop up that Firefox may no longer be compatible with Java if Firefox is trying to open a Java applet.
JJK

for : JJKizak

saying that the navigation abberation is something to do with java is just not saying very much.

If you look at the FireFox 47 debugger as you navigate you can see that javascript is pulled continuously whether you navigate to this site or anywhere else for that matter.

There was no menu pop-up - FireFox47 is claimed to be fully functional by some and not by others - that is not the difference caused by using java...

Java and Javascript are totally different. I won't let Java onto my system as I consider it a security risk. I'm careful about allowing Javascript (I use NoScript) . Most forums require javascript to work 100%.

I just checked and I have Firefox 47 and it does the same thing, jumps to the next page of threads.
Sorry about the Java stuff.
JJK

I switched to Pale Moon when Mozilla began their numbers game with Firefox. Pale Moon comes in 32 and 64 bit varieties and, I think, is more secure. No problems with the forum using version 24.2.2 64 bit.

No issues here with Windows 10 x64 and Firefox 47. I think Gary James and videITguy need to figure out what it is that they have in common on their systems.
[EDIT[ Doh! Yes, seeing the same thing ... it just wasn't my normal modus operandi. Not a big deal for me, but yes, I can confirm that this appears to be a Firefox 47 glitch.

The forum in general has been having issues for about the last 9 months. Some threads in the recent past did confront the site administrator about undesirable behaviors during this period, but as it turns our there was no admission of wrong doing. Yet the coding has been changed in the SCS site server one way or the other.

Don't blame FireFox47 when in fact the common variable is actually a site change/incompatibility practice with the use of all popular wide-use browsers. This navigation issue appears in a specific set of routines that the user can initiate on the site pull - the server code is the problem at SCS.

I'm using an old browser. Forum has been fine here, never a glitch. So what has changed with the new browsers?

Hi Gary,

The computer I use to access this website forum is Windows 7, using Firefox 46.0.1. Whenever I hit the link to return it takes me back to the previous page, as it should.

I have another computer running Windows XP. and Firefox 46.0.1 Last week on that computer I updated Firefox to version 47. I immediately had two problems. Rather than spend the time to run down the cause, I rolled back Firefox to 46.0.1 and the problems went away.

So, I updated this Win 7 computer to Firefox 47 and experienced the same problems as I had on the XP box and in addition, using the link to return to the previous page acts like your problem, it advances to the next page!

I rolled back to ver 46.0.1 Firefox and everything works as usual again. So maybe it is something SCS changed recently in the forum software, maybe it is something with Firefox 47.

I haven't noticed any problem with the SCS forums misbehaving in the past. On the other hand Firefox 47 presented me with 3 problems I really don't need to spend time on, so I'll just stick with 46.0.1 for now.


Best Regards.......George

Of course FireFox47 displays a problem, but that is not necessarily the cause of the problem. If it was purely the browser cause, then there would certainly seem to be other navigational problems with FireFox47 not only at SCS but also with other sites.

Can anyone say that is the cause/display issue for FireFox47 elsewhere?

FWIW .... I just checked with my Linux laptop running Debian 8 and the (stock) IceWeasel 38.7.1 doesn't exhibit the problem.

I know this probably won't mean much to Windows people, but IceWeasel was for years the totally free open-source browser on Debian, built from the same code as Firefox, but for various reasons lagged behind the cutting-edge Firefox found on more popular operating systems.

Debian have recently embraced the "regular" Firefox so I installed that, on Debian it's still at 45.2.0 (the extended support , "ESR" verion) and yep, no difference, the forum behaves as expected, the same as on the old version 38.

OK, I don't know what's going on, but there does seem to be a difference in the way the forum behaves with Firefox 47 when you're in a forum, and you click the "Back to ..." link in the top right.

(Edits to correct typos.)

HEY ALL!
Does everyone remember this thread of the last two weeks?????

AS of this post date and time - SCS server has been fixed and things work as they should.

Not for me .
JJK

I don't think anything has changed. Firefox 47, still acts as the OP described, Firefix 46.0.1 acts normal as it has. Nothing changed here.....

...and Firefox 47 still doesn't play nice with other add-on's I like to use.

Best Regards.....George

At the time and date of my post a couple above this one - IT DID WORK, but at this new date and time I checked again and it is back to funky!

Still works fine here on Win7 and FF 47.0.
Tom

I still see the problem running Win 7 64 bit SP1 & Firefox v47