Pages that work in IE but not Firefox - what's missing?

[Nigel Henry]

On Saturday 14 February 2009 14:14, Chris G wrote:
> I'm looking for accomodation and other information in France and keep
> hitting sites which don't work in Fierfox.  For example:-
>
>     http://www.ville-castres.fr/_tourisme_site//index.php
>
> The page comes up but the menu on the left and a picture are blank,
> not having the menu makes it rather difficult to use!  In IE (I run
> XP in VirtualBox) the site appears OK complete with picture and menu.
>
> I have Flash installed in Firefox so is there something else missing
> or is there something wrong with my Flash installation or is it
> something else entirely?
>
> Oh, I'm running Forefox 3.0.6 on xubuntu 8.10.
>
> --
> Chris Green

Hi Chris.

I can't try Firefox on Intrepid at the mo, because I'm downloading an iso on 
Archlinux on the same machine, but I've tried the site on my FC2 install that 
I'm emailing from, and it appears to work ok.

Firefox 2.0.0.12
Flash 9  (115)
Mplayerplug-in, which may be gecko-mediaplayer, or mozilla-mplayer, depending 
on your distro, and allows playing a bunch of stuff.
Sun's JRE.

It may be using flash, but sometimes it's difficult to tell, when you have a 
bunch of stuff installed and available.

I see a changing background at the top of the page, a slide show just below 
the ACCUEIL, and the menu is there.

I'll have to try Firefox in Intrepid when I next boot it.

I've just looked in Firefox's tools> site info> media, and it confirms that 
the menu, moving background, and the slide show, are using swf, and the 
stills are jpeg images.

Nigel.