I finally have Firefox 3. It hasn't solved my LJ comment indenting problem. I guess I'll post on the support board, but it strikes me as really weird that nobody else has mentioned it, and there doesn't seem to be much point posting on a holiday weekend. Anyway, someone'll probably just quote some irrelevant point from the FAQ at me.
Huh, that was weird. The login box in the main page wasn't working for me, so I tried logging in while posting a comment, and it worked. I thought I could edit that comment once I was successfully logged back in, but there's no edit button. I guess it's not in your journal style. Uh, I have to go reset some things now. :)
Right, okay, clearing cookies does not help (though it's something I should have tried a week ago). Firefox helpfully blocked all subsequent cookies from livejournal.com when I deleted the existing ones, hence the few minutes of why-can't-I-log-in flailing.
Anyway: when comment pages are rendered in the site scheme (any site scheme), threaded comments don't indent. Everything's against the left margin, which makes the threads really hard to follow. (But it's not the same as view=flat; the comments are in threaded order. In fact, when I load the page they show indented properly for an instant and then jump over to the margin.) I don't think it's related to the 'expand' button -- unexpanded comments are behaving the same way. It started a couple of weeks ago; I thought it was just Dystopia finally breaking, but every site scheme is doing it for me. Only on the Mac, and only in Firefox, but it's the same in 2 and 3. I can't be the only Livejournaler out there using this setup; why hasn't anyone else complained?
I can fix it by forcing comment pages into my own journal's style, but I don't like that, and it's a pain in the ass appending ?style=mine to the entire anonymeme.
...damn, Safari works. I don't really want to change browsers.
I HATE that cookie-clearing behavior of Firefox's. It did it in version 2 as well, and it's incredibly annoying.
The only other possibility I can think of for why you're seeing this display in FF is that it's loading some other file with CSS positioning info that conflicts with LJ's. But in order for that to happen, you'd have had to specify a different default CSS file to override everything, and I really doubt you did that.
Even so, it might be worth nuking your FF preferences. Back up your bookmarks first, just in case; they aren't stored with this file, but better to be safe than sorry. Then delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.mozilla.firefox.plist. If you have other com.mozilla files lying around, you may want to kill them too (unless you have a Thunderbird plist file, because that's got your mail preferences).
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on 2009-01-02 12:14 am (UTC)I finally have Firefox 3. It hasn't solved my LJ comment indenting problem. I guess I'll post on the support board, but it strikes me as really weird that nobody else has mentioned it, and there doesn't seem to be much point posting on a holiday weekend. Anyway, someone'll probably just quote some irrelevant point from the FAQ at me.
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on 2009-01-02 01:24 am (UTC)Anyway: when comment pages are rendered in the site scheme (any site scheme), threaded comments don't indent. Everything's against the left margin, which makes the threads really hard to follow. (But it's not the same as view=flat; the comments are in threaded order. In fact, when I load the page they show indented properly for an instant and then jump over to the margin.) I don't think it's related to the 'expand' button -- unexpanded comments are behaving the same way. It started a couple of weeks ago; I thought it was just Dystopia finally breaking, but every site scheme is doing it for me. Only on the Mac, and only in Firefox, but it's the same in 2 and 3. I can't be the only Livejournaler out there using this setup; why hasn't anyone else complained?
I can fix it by forcing comment pages into my own journal's style, but I don't like that, and it's a pain in the ass appending ?style=mine to the entire anonymeme.
...damn, Safari works. I don't really want to change browsers.
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on 2009-01-02 01:48 am (UTC)The only other possibility I can think of for why you're seeing this display in FF is that it's loading some other file with CSS positioning info that conflicts with LJ's. But in order for that to happen, you'd have had to specify a different default CSS file to override everything, and I really doubt you did that.
Even so, it might be worth nuking your FF preferences. Back up your bookmarks first, just in case; they aren't stored with this file, but better to be safe than sorry. Then delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.mozilla.firefox.plist. If you have other com.mozilla files lying around, you may want to kill them too (unless you have a Thunderbird plist file, because that's got your mail preferences).