Nick BartlettPHP Developer in Minnesota

I tested our site in IE today and found that IE has one useful feature; broken image placeholders. There were a few broken images that I did not notice while using Firefox because Firefox just displays the alt text. The best way to do it is as described here
http://gavtaylor.co.uk/blog/enable-broken-image-placeholders-in-firefox and

http://onlinemoneymaking.ws/blog/show-dead-image-placeholder-in-firefox/ . Their examples help you find the file with older versions of Windows. If you’re on Windows 7 like me, the userContent.css file will go here -
C:\Users\%yourUsername%\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\x3qch3l0.default\chrome

Rename ‘UserContent-example.css’ to ‘UserContent.css’, this will then be loaded by Firefox when it fires up.

Add the following CSS to the file and restart Firefox..

/* Enable image placeholders */
@-moz-document url-prefix(http), url-prefix(file) {
	img:-moz-broken {
		-moz-force-broken-image-icon:1;
		width:24px;
		height:24px;
	}
}

For months I have been unable to print from Firefox.  Today after some searching and trying things, I found something that worked.

type about:config in the URL bar and hit Enter
Preference name = print.print_printer
Right-Click that preference and select Reset, then restart Firefox.

Hope that helps!

I’ve been having problems using Google finance lately with Firefox. When I’d load pages in new tabs and attempt to switch tabs, the CPU spikes on my Win XP machine for a couple minutes, which pretty much disabled my browsing ability. I upgraded Firefox from 3.0 to 3.5 and still have the same problem. From what I’ve been reading, it’s not just Google finance, but youtube and various other pages that use flash. I’ve disabled a bunch of plugins / addons already to see if they were causing the problem and they weren’t. I’ve been using Google Chrome or Opera on sites that cause these problems lately. Anybody know of a solution?