My Firefox browser has bad days...

[Neville Bailey]

Every now and then, for no apparent reason, certain websites (including TFSA and Gmail) don't like being opened properly in my Firefox browser, and I am forced to open them in Internet Explorer, which is yuk and so slow!

Anyone else experience this and any solutions/reasons for it? It seems to come right after a day or so...

Here is what the TFSA site looks like if I try and open it on my Firefox browser:

[Martinco]

Yep,
Also happens to me..........no idea !

[IanF]

Try google chrome it works for me except for internet banking.

[Perform Computers]

For some reason Firefox opens up www.fnb.co.za but once login details are entered, it just sits there. Doesn't go to the actual page where you can do transactions, see your balance, buy airtime etc etc

Load IE and it works fine. Weird.

[Justloadit]

There have been a number of FF updates, I wonder if this has not introduced some bugs?

[AndyD]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
My version of Firefox on XPPro has no problems with FNB banking site nor with TFSA. Maybe try Opera as an alternative.

[Dave A]

What that looks like is a failure to load (or render) the css file. If you're on a shaped internet connection, css files can be deprioritised and I think Firefox is a bit quicker to time out than Internet Explorer when it comes to hung file downloads.

If anyone gives Opera a shot, please let me know how that goes.

[AndyD]

Opera works fine with FNB and with TFSA. I only occasionally use it and haven't been through either site with a fine tooth comb however but I've made payments fine and accessed statements.

Edit. Incidentally I have encountered other sites where the advertising causes the page to hang or even causes FF to take a complete dump.

[Neville Bailey]

Has anyone tried the new Internet Explorer 9 browser?

I installed it yesterday and initial impressions are good - much faster than IE8 and it has a minimalistic and clean look, much like Google Chrome.

I still prefer FF as one can install so many handy add-ons - I believe FF 4 is about to be launched.

[Dave A]

I haven't tried it myself, but I've read some good reviews on it. I think I might just give it a whirl over the weekend.

[BryanCasson]

This is not usually a Firefox only issue. If your connection is slow for some reason (or fast with tons of packet loses) then certain sites (Usually slow loading sites that do not have caching - Like FNB) will not load their style sheet. This is why all the content is there but the style is gone. Usually one would refresh and everything would be ok, however because you are on a banking site that does not allow auto-cashing and because you are using a browser that is fast the stylesheet has no time to load. Sometimes it tries to get the stylesheet faster that the slow site can produce it..... hope I made some sense

[Mark Atkinson]

When FF fails to load the CSS file like that, try CTRL+F5 the page. This forces it to reload the site without the cache. I have experienced similar problems (not with TFSA) but nothing that doesn't come right after a refresh.

I've also just installed FireFox 4 RC, looks and feels good! I was just so damn sick of the FF 3 memory leak that I had to change!

No comments on IE9 just yet; I use WinXP on my laptop and, as we all probably know, M$ has decided to release IE9 for just Vista and Windows 7 despite the fact that half the worlds computers still run on XP.

[AndyD]

The last time I used IE was version 6. I thought it was a pitiful browser and the security was horrific. I changed to FF the same year PC World rated Internet Explorer 6 the eighth worst tech product of all time. Nowadays FF's lack of stability is leaning me more and more in the direction of Opera. I'm just not keen on Opera's tabbing system.

[AmithS]

I am using FireFox for the first time (writing this thread with it - FireFox 4)

The problem i have though is my McAfee siteadvisor don't work with it for some reason!

Did a few quick searches and it seems like its not compatible or something of that sort

[irneb]

Did a few quick searches and it seems like its not compatible or something of that sort

I'm not sure if McAffee's worked in previous FF's. But FF4's been out for only a few weeks now - maybe they still have to update McAf.

I'm using Avast! instead, and they had an update about a month back which made them work in FF4RC, it works fine on my current FF4. I've had a situation of one other forum site getting blocked due to malware - it picked this up no problem at all.