- GameJunkieJim
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Posted by: Achronos
While we do test for such things, the problem you see is due to the fact that the only version of Firefox that is "officially" supported is the 1.5 Windows release. By "officially" supported I mean that we test to make sure it works. If you're running on Linux, that means that we didn't test your browser before releasing (we can only test so many browsers, and our Linux userbase is tiny). You probably could get the site to appear if you modified the User Agent string to match that of Firefox on Windows - that would probably look better than forcing it to be IE. Actually I experience it too, although not very often. I got it a multitude of times in IE while you were doing the actual upgrading, but since I have not. I use Ubuntu 5.10 Linux (It's another Debian kernel)with the Gnome 2.12.1 desktop environment primarily on my other computer, the one I most frequently use, and I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.1 on it. I experienced it once or twice after the upgrade was finished, and if I'm not mistaken someone on your team is looking at it. I have not been able to replicate the Downgraded Display malfunction (is it really?) under the same version of Firefox under Windows XP Pro Media Center Edition, but I'm trying to. I have not, however, experienced it since the last time, so I'm going to assume that something has been done in regards to that. I will say though, that I experience a fairly "Bug free" Bungie.net, now that I'm running FasterFox 1.0.3, and the only real difference I notice between viewing on Firefox and IE6 is the background image doesn't lock in Firefox, it tiles. Which kind of looks odd under the scroller dock, but doesn't affect anything. I turned off the Smooth Scrolling option and it actually seems to scroll better.
That all being said, I do agree that it is rather silly that it is blocking your browser. Bungie.net is meant to be open to as many browsers as possible. It is on the list of things to fix, but I'll admit the priority is rather low. The good news is that in the future, we'll be modifying our browser detection code substantially to better "bucket" your browser and be much less prone to dumping you into the downlevel display. You might actually want to consider some minor alterations to the Downgraded Display anyway. On my Linux machine, when I try to make a post, the javascripted buttons (Submit, Preview, etc) are often hidden under the form. you can still access them via the TAB button, but it's still a pain in the butt.
[Edited on 4/6/2006]