Posted by
Neil – January 29, 2010
Just came across a cracking little bug in the old FCKEditor 2 code that we use on a number of applications. In the last few days we’ve noticed that it’s just randomly stopped working in Firefox across all applications that use the editor.
After doing a little digging, this was tracked down to a 2010 related bug, and the fact that the newest versions of Firefox were released this calendar year. Take a look at my user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
In the FCKEditor code, it’s checking to see if I have a compatible browser by checking the date of release of the Firefox, with the following code:
stResult = reFind( "gecko/(200[3-9][0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9])", sAgent, 1, true );
You’ll notice that this regex doesn’t work particulary well for anything that might start with 2010, so you need to update your regex to the following:
stResult = reFind( "gecko/(20[0-9][0-9][0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9])", sAgent, 1, true );
Once you’re done and dusted, this should give you another 10 years of happy FCKEditor usage (if you’re that committed).
UPDATE: After some more digging it would appear that this is only a ColdFusion related issue, as it is the only library to use a regex to find the date, all of the others use a substring style extraction of the date.
Posted by
Neil – January 26, 2010
It’s a little known fact that you can CTRL-TAB between tabs in Firefox (in a similar way to ALT-TAB on your Windows). What’s even more unknown is that you can set up Firefox to give you the previews in Firefox too.
In order to do this pop into your address bar and go to about:config. After telling Firefox you like living dangerously, find
browser.ctrlTab.previews
and set it to true.
Once you’ve done this, CTRL-TAB and you’ll be able to preview and search all your open tabs.
Posted by
Neil – July 1, 2009
A big day in internet land yesterday as Firefox 3.5 finally dropped. Here’s some more interesting stuff:
Posted by
Neil – June 30, 2009
Working from home today, which is always a bit weird…
Posted by
Neil – December 12, 2007
Well, I’ve just had a poke around in the Feed-Squirrel stats, and come across the OS usage that I am seeing on the site. I’ll tell you one thing, it’s quite amazing what people will be surfing the web on these days (well, different to when I started looking at server logs back in ‘96).
Windows 81.6%
Mac OSX 11.2%
Linux 6%
Playstation 3 0.6%
Symbian 0.07%
SunOS 0.03%
PSP 0.03%
iPhone 0.03%
iPod 0.01%
Goddamn kids I tell you…
Posted by
Neil – May 31, 2006
If you've ever been playing with SELECT boxes and Layers, you know about the z-index bug that exists where a SELECT insists on being the highest element. I cannot remember how many times I have had to write code to hide SELECT boxes before showing a layer over them.
Well, it appears Microsoft have finally got off their arse and fixed it in IE7. Well, what can I say, just in the nick of time eh? Just in time for all those developers now thinking about RIA's/Flash/Flex 
Posted by
Neil – April 14, 2006
Just a quickie to note that Firefox 1.5.0.2 has popped up over on Mozilla.org. Obviously, if you are using 1.5+ then this will automatically update. If you aren't then I suggest you go download it now.
Posted by
Neil – February 2, 2006
Whilst looking more into the second beta release of IE7 yesterday, I came across the browser archive at evolt.org. This little gem appears to have most versions of most browsers from over the years, including a load of standalone versions of 32-bit Internet Explorer.
From what I can tell, there are most versions of most browsers in there (although there are some sizable gaps in the Navigator and Commnuicator arena) so now there should be no reason for a site not to work in a.n.other browser!
Posted by
Neil – February 2, 2006
Whilst looking more into the second beta release of IE7 yesterday, I came across the browser archive at evolt.org. This little gem appears to have most versions of most browsers from over the years, including a load of standalone versions of 32-bit Internet Explorer.
From what I can tell, there are most versions of most browsers in there (although there are some sizable gaps in the Navigator and Commnuicator arena) so now there should be no reason for a site not to work in a.n.other browser!
Posted by
Neil – February 2, 2006
