A note for Firefox users

I've had a number of readers contact me about the new screenshot gallery type I'm using on the SuperSite (see here for an example), noting that they don't work properly in Mozilla Firefox. This is curious to me because I both use Firefox as my primary browser and test this site regularly in Firefox.

So what's the problem? Apparently, the popular Adblock add-on for Firefox is at least one culprit, but I'm guessing that other Firefox add-ons could cause similar problems. I'm using fairly simple Javascript to display the galleries, but it seems that some add-ons see this code as an advertisement.

Here's how you can help. If you're using Firefox and can't get the screenshot galleries to work, please send me an email and let me know which, if any, Firefox add-ons you're using. That way I can try to work around this issue. But please be assured that I both use and recommend Firefox, and this is the browser I use first when testing the site every single day. It's important to me that it work.

Also, if anyone has any advice about fixing this issue, again, please let me know.

Thanks,

Paul

Paul Thurrott
September 12, 2006