The curse of ABP

[undyingking]

AdBlock Plus is a very useful Firefox extension. Except when you're laying out a page containing some ads, and spend ages wondering why the images are displaying properly in IE, but not in FF.

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[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Security measures are often like that I find.

Flash has this concept called "cross domain policy", which basically means that you can't get Flash to read files from a server other than the one it's hosted on unless there's an explicit permission thingummy set up on it.

Which is all very sensible unless you're a contractor developing software for someone else's site at which point it bites you in the @ss every time! (The downloads in question fail silently, so you need to remember why - it won't tell you.)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Cunning!

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Doh! That's similar to someone I know who wondered why the website he'd just spent ages updating wasn't showing the changes, until he realised he hadn't uploaded it yet!

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Heh, I've lost count of the number of times I've done that...

[jvvw.livejournal.com]

I remember spending ages puzzled once because I'd forgotten I has the SessionSaver extension installed on the version of FF that I was using - couldn't figure out why my changes weren't showing.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Highly customizable setups are great as long as you have a good memory!

[smallbeasts.livejournal.com]

I once spent a morning trying to spot a mistake in a dynamic page, only to discover that Firefox's "View Source" doesn't show the current source, but goes back to the server and fetches a new copy of the page. You have to install a plugin to view the source of the page you're actually looking at right now.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

The Web Developer extension includes a useful feature "View Generated Source", which similarly shows you the source that's actually in the browser (allegedly).