Known Issues

The Mozilla Firefox browser is a robust browser with many useful features that may make using it a pleasure.  However, because of its rather newborn state compared to other browsers that are into version 6 or higher it has some known issues that may at first appear as bugs within WorldClient.  The developers have attempted to work around each of these issues within the LookOut theme code, but you may see some side effects of the bugs in various areas.  Some of these issues have been resolved by later releases of the Firefox browser (currently 1.5 at the time of this writing) but exist in the Firefox 1.0 branch.

Message Drag & Drop is not in Firefox

Firefox does not have an implementation of the Drag & Drop functionality for dragging things between frames.  Due to security concerns with drag & drop at the mozilla foundation it is hampered in this area.

JavaScript Console Errors/XMLHTTP Errors

If you turn on the JavaScript console on (Tools | JavaScript console) you might see an error that looks like this:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:

0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIObserverService.removeObserver]"

nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::

chrome://global/content/bindings/browser.xml :: destroy :: line 569"  data:

no]

This is due to a bug in the Firefox implementation of XMLHTTP communication and has been reported in bugzilla.mozilla.org.  There are various other Errors that will look like this with different hexidecimal numbers (0x8000.... numbers) and they are representative of bugs within Firefox and not buts in WorldClient.  In some cases Firefox will have to reload a page where Internet Explorer simply reloads the data.  We hope that a future version of Firefox  will fix all or most of these issues to help improve the LookOut theme's performance in Firefox.

Sign Out Disappears

If you open up a new tab in Firefox sometimes the Sign Out link will disappear, as well as the bottom part of the main viewing area.  This clipping is due to a bug in Firefox where a the window resize event is not called for tabs that are hidden (for example the LookOut theme's tab).  The only solution is to remove all tabs but WorldClient's so that the full window becomes available again.

Some Navigation Buttons have to be Clicked Twice

You might find that buttons in various toolbars need to be clicked twice to get them to be responsive.  It appears that not all events are being triggered by the "onclick" event consistently.  We hope this doesn't happen to you very often, but we also hope that future versions of Firefox will remedy this bug as well.

HTML Compose Acts Funny

This implementation of the HTML Compose module will reflect some funny things periodically.  While all sorts of effort is being put forth to resolve the issues some problems with the component still remain.

Firefox Takes 30 seconds to Load

Note: This has been fixed in Firefox 1.5 but remains in the 1.0 branch.

Due to a bug in Firefox's onload event handler Firefox actually loads rather quickly and then the loading indicator continues to look like it is loading for upwards of 30 seconds.  This is something the developers are looking to work around to reduce the chance that users will be fooled into thinking that the LookOut theme is not loaded.