Firefox vs. Windows XP

[azurelunatic]

When running FireFox 1.0 on a Windows XP system, and running more than one user account on said XP system and running Firefox on both of those accounts, funkiness may result.

To be specific, after I used the guest account on my XP system for the first time, and Firefox was used (well, technically my roommate did the surfing, and it wasn't "Guest", it was another account with guest privs), Firefox on my login suddenly started caching pages inappropriately. Namely, even though I had the cache size set to 0, my friends page wasn't showing updates when updates happened. (I tested this by viewing /friends?skip=0.)

I had to clear the cache before the page would start updating, and after I cleared the cache, I had to continually clear it each time I wanted the page to be checked again each time. Finally, I figured it out, went into the guest account, and set Firefox to cache = 0 (from 5000), and all my troubles went away. At least, all my browser troubles. Well, most of them. Firefox still doesn't like PopCap Games' content.

Comments

[elysianmusings.livejournal.com]

Firefox and WinXP are a little strange even if you only have one user account. Firefox will occasionally randomly crash on me (not even close to as many times as IE does, though). Sometimes, when I click on links, it saves the page to my desktop. How strange is that?

[azurelunatic]

Funky. I've never had that interesting behaviour. I wonder if it's, like, shift-click or something. I know control-click is open in new tab.

[elysianmusings.livejournal.com]

Dunno, but it's not really a tragic flaw (if not a keystroke error that I don't realize I'm doing, and that's completely possible), so yeah.

[azurelunatic]

I know pushing the ' while on a page not a text entry area brings up the search.

And the search is b0rked; it doesn't find things on the page that are on the page.