Their only real choice is to change to a different browser. But most users have no such convenient way to roll back to a previous version. No longer.Īs a Mac user, I used OS X's Time Machine utility to restore Firefox 9, which solved both the TinyMCE issue and the Java app problem, then I disabled Firefox's update facility. There are yet more examples in the Mozilla support forums.įirefox used to be rock-solid. No other browser breaks on that app, either. Firefox 10 (and 11) no longer works with my company's Java-based time sheet app, returning Java server error messages when I try to enter information for any date. The TinyMCE example is just that - an example. Additionally, Mozilla offers no rollback capability to previous versions. Maybe Firefox 12 will fix the bug, but in the meantime, users whose websites were perfectly usable are stuck with them not working for no apparent reason. Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari all work fine, by the way, with the TinyMCE versions Firefox 11 can't handle. The Web must handle such variablility - especially the browsers used to access it. Expecting every website that uses TinyMCE to update it whenever an incremental rev comes out is silly and unrealistic, and certainly not just because Mozilla decided compatibility in its parade of new Firefox releases was everyone else's problem. Firefox is a Web browser, and by its very nature the Web is a heterogeneous, uncontrolled collection of resources. That advice shows the self-destruction in play with Mozilla's strategy. Relax, the contents are still there, but you need to disable TinyMCE to get to them, often via a control to switch to HTML editing or to disable rich text formatting in many Web pages.Īt Mozilla's help forums, the suggested fix is to update TinyMCE to the most recent version. If you see a row of Office-like formatting icon buttons, that's TinyMCE in action in Firefox 11, you often see a blank window rather than your contents - that's the bug. Unlike the case with Chrome, compatibility issues seems to be the price to be paid for having Firefox's version number change so often, with no obvious beneficial changes in exchange.įor example, the new Firefox 11 breaks compatibility with older versions of TinyMCE, the open source AJAX tool used by countless websites to provide rich text editing. Another day, another version of Firefox - like rival Google has done with Chrome, Mozilla has put Firefox on an endless update cycle, with new versions every six weeks or so.
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