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Subject: Bungie.net website and Firefox
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As anyone who regularly reads Slashdot will be aware, the number of people using Firefox (and other Mozilla-based browsers) is continuing to rise, and is trending upwards (translated: more and more people are switching, faster and faster). I myself have used Mozilla since the pre-1.0, but I've finally decided to switch to Firefox now that the 1.0 Preview Release is available.

So where's the problem? As anyone who visits this site with a Mozilla-based browser will be aware, you simply can't scroll the page using a mouse scrollwheel. In fact, you can't even use the up or down arrows on your keyboard (or page up / page down). This means that these users have to use the scrollbar (a venerable and useful interface element, to be sure).

Thus, to get straight to the point; are Bungie going to look at improving the compatibility of the site with Firefox and other Mozilla-based browsers? I think that as the features and reliability of Firefox improve, and the (numerous) security problems with IE continue to be identified, this trend of switching is set to continue. I'm sure Bungie wouldn't want a large percentage of their users getting an inferior experience on their website...

  • 09.15.2004 7:59 AM PDT

This is a problem with FireFox's rendering engine. Fixing it on b.net would break a whole lot of other things.

And this belongs in The Septagon.

  • 09.15.2004 8:59 AM PDT