On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:19:02 -0800, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
So this morning I was greeted with Firefox 9. Trouble
is, a couple of
our internal wikis run old versions (1.13 and 1.15) and ... old
Monobook appears to be broken by FF9. The sidebar appears only after
the page content, leaving a large empty space between the wiki logo
and the sidebar.
Screenshot of the problem on our tech wiki:
http://oi42.tinypic.com/35lbz7o.jpg
This is only broken in FF9 - it's fine in current Chrome stable, for
example.
Any ideas where we'd go into Monobook to fix this? Wikipedia with
"useskin=monobook" is not broken in the same manner.
(I realise the actual answer is "upgrade those ancient MediaWikis
already". But the 1.15 is a somewhat fragile combination of MediaWiki,
Semantic MediaWiki and customisations ...)
- d.
You are correct in your guess, and might as well start working towards
making it possible to upgrade.
I suppose I'll spare you the usual lecture about how 1.15 is obsolete and
won't list off the security holes we've fixed since then that never wen't
into 1.15 and just mention what's wrong in your case.
Old MediaWiki code relied on the presence of navigator.taintEnabled for
Firefox and well, it was something useless and Firefox has been trying to
remove it.
Relevant bugs:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679971
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31807
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~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [
http://daniel.friesen.name]