Firefox 2.0.0.X Problem

The Mozilla Foundation has recently released versions 2.0.0.12 and 2.0.0.13 of its highly popular web browser Firefox. Unfortunately, these updates have introduced a problem that prevents Cradle web UIs being rendered correctly in all situations.

We have tried, without success, to find a solution or workaround to this problem. We have therefore been forced to conclude that this may be a bug in this Firefox release.

We have reported this problem to Mozilla, and have received confirmation from them. You can track the progression of this issue at:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416839

We regret any inconvenience that this may cause users who are using both Cradle web UIs and the Firefox browser.

At the moment, the only alternative is to revert to a previous version of Firefox, such as either 2.0.0.10 or 2.0.0.11. Indeed, we have experience of using all versions of Firefox from 1.5 onwards with Cradle web UIs (Firefox is 3SL’s standard web browser), and none of these previous versions has the problem exhibited by Firefox 2.0.0.12 and 2.0.0.13.

The problem is not particularly serious. It affects the ability of users to switch between tree and table views in the Cradle web UIs supplied by 3SL. Specifically, if you use the Master Tree viewer to browse items in your database and you scroll down in the tree and you then switch to either the Browse Control or process hierarchy views, then these new views will appear to be empty. You will need to scroll upwards in these other views to see the data view controls in these views. Once you have scrolled upwards, the controls will appear and will operate correctly.

This behaviour will happen every time that you scroll down in the Master Tree view so that the top of the tree is no longer visible.

We continue to press the Mozilla Foundation for a fix to this problem.