Question for Firefox users.....................

I tried Firefox on my computer. I was impressed until I pulled up some of the pages I fill out for reports on houses I inspect.

The pages normally have the heading at the top with the name and address of the insured, etc. Then assorted questions, etc., progress down the page, directly below the heading and against the left margin.

On Firefox, the heading was 'way to the left past the margin, and the rest of the text for the page was almost off the screen to the right, with just the left edge showing. There was a scroll bar across the bottom of the page that you could use to bring either back onto the screen, but they should all line up properly beneath the heading.

Have any of ya'll run into this? I couldn't find any way to bring them all back into line. I like the absence of pop-ups, but I can't use it with that problem.

Goose,

once in a while mine does it too... Sometimes it seems to be an issue if there is a picture/logo imbedded in the page... Having said that, i"ve not been able to fix it either.

In most cases, I just hit view and zoom out. I would also like to say firefox is so much better internet explorer.

There's an Add-On for Firefox called <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ie-view/">IE View</a> that lets you right click on a site to view it in IE, or add that site to a list of sites that always load with IE when you visit them with Firefox.

OR you could contact the company that runs the site and tell them it doesn't work with Firefox and they might fix it.

Also you could try using Google Chrome as a browser to see if that works.

The control key along with the plus & minus keys will zoom the page in or out. It might be a simple fix for you.

There are quite a few web sites that are coded for IE and not for other browsers.
This particular site may be on of them, and they may fix it if they get enough complaints.
You could try using IE view, or just using IE to visit that site and FireFox the rest of the time.
You could also try another browser such as Chrome as was mentioned.

my girlfriend uses firefox and loves it. i'm on internet explorer. when i have a tuff page that explorer won't work on or want to watch a webcast........she gets it to work on firefox without any problems. I know it works but haven't a clue on how to fix your problem!

The problem is with the forms, not necessarily with the browser. There is a certain amount of ambiguity in how HTML is rendered by the browser, so it's possible for two browsers to render a web page quite differently and for both of them to be "right". Good web page designers check the rendering of their forms on multiple browsers and even different versions of popular browsers. Lazy designers just check with whatever version of IE they happen to have loaded on their PC.

Another mistake web page designers make is to assume everyone uses the same screen resolution that they do. It's possible that the designer of your forms had a large, high resolution monitor, so the page would render OK on Firefox for him, but not for you. Again, smart web page designers check at different resolutions, lazy ones do not.

This was a major problem in the early days of the web, when the HTML spec wasn't completely nailed down. Microsoft compounded the problem by adding proprietary extensions to HTML that were only supported by IE. Today, the HTML spec is much tighter and current browsers adhere closely to it. But there's a lot of old web pages out there that don't render properly in a browser that complies with the HTML spec. You might have problems with those forms even with the latest version of IE.

Poor rendering isn't nearly as big of a problem today as it was ten or fifteen years ago. But I still come across web pages that don't render properly on Firefox, even on some very major sites. You should report your problem to the webmaster of the site that owns those forms. His answer may well be "just use IE", but if he's smart he'll realize he can't support just one browser anymore.

Have you tried FIREFOX/MOZZILA SUPPORT
Firefox support