Comments on: Firefox 3 Question Mark Diamond

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:48:51 +0000

Hey folks, just came across this awesome fix and unfortunately it’s not fixed in the latest beta build I’m going to submit a bug report to the team.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:52:27 +0000

Thanks, Ben. Not sure if that’s of any comfort or not, except for the fact that I’m not alone. LOL

I wonder if Mozilla is aware and is working on a fix. It’s so annoying, and does not happen in IE 7. …. but FF is the far superior browser.

Maybe it’s time to check out Opera or Google Chrome too.

Thanks.

By: Ben Lam

Ben Lam — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:19:58 +0000

Unfortunately, this new “feature”, is more like a bug. I’ve done a bit of searching through bug reports on Mozilla.org and there are several complaints about this.

Guess we’ll have to wait for a more permanent “feature” fix.

Best regards,
Ben

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:07:20 +0000

Yes, this works, but only temporarily. My home page is http://www.nytimes.com, and if I close FF3 and reopen it, the character encoding gets set back to Unicode. If switch it back to Western (ISO 8859-1), the page displays correctly, but as soon as I navigate away from the page, or close/reopen the browser, it is set back to Unicode.

Is there a way to make that setting permanent? It seems like a new “feature” of FF.

Thanks.