OT - Fellow Firefox users--our forum text formatting is kablooey!

I know this post will need to be moved to a different Forum, but I'm hoping for as many people as possible to see this. Ever since upgrading to Firefox 6 (now 6.0.1),text formatting at the Cakewalk Forums has been broken. I can't include a quote, and simple things like paragraph breaks aren't available. All I can do is write in blocks of un-formatted text. Fellow Firefox users - have you found a solution? RB

The only solution is to visit HERE and download and older version. I'm on V5 which works ok. Bizarrely though that is now unsupported. I think V3.6 is the most recent version prior to 6 that is still supported.

Thanks for the replies, Scott, FBB and Kevo - I hadn't noticed the previous posts about this. Well darn it - I love me Firefox. I have it all tricked out the way I want. Going back to a previous version doesn't appeal - updating security is one of the main reasons Firefox gets updated.-- OOOooh man, I have to use >shudder< Chrome?--I guess that's the solution I'll have to use until this is fixed. I'll fire up Chrome just for coming here, see how that goes. Thanks again - Randy, un-formatted in Oregon

FastBikerBoy


Randy. Version 3.6 is still supported & patched for security updates, so that'll be safe & of course V5 is as safe as it was before the upgrade.

Hey, lookee me - all formatted in this reply.  I'm in Chrome right now.  It might work to go back and forth between the two browsers.  Hmmm.  Maybe.


Thanks for the new reply, FBB.  If I went backwards to v5 - I suppose all the new tweaks I've done in v6 will disappear?  Yeah--I think so.  Hmmm.  Maybe.


RB

At least now I know what has happened. I went up and down my firefox plugins to find out what prevented formatting, of course without success. As I strictly refuse to use Chrome (it's from my favorite data sampling company Google), I have to find another alternative. And yes, the forum software should be updated fast.

This is literally the third full thread about this -- which only proves that this forum software needs a way better search function!

Don't feel too bad Randy, I'd be willing to bet the search function wouldn't find it anyway.

+1 to Chrome

OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION FROM Samuel Chou at ASPPlayground.net re: Cakewalk's out-dated forum software
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-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Bowser [mailto:forum@aspplayground.net] 
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 10:54 AM
To:  admin@aspplayground.net
Subject: General Inquiry

I'm a very active member of the Cakewalk/Sonar forums which are powered by
ASPPlayground.  I keep my browser, Firefox, up to date.  With the most
recent upgrades of Firefox (6 and 6.0.1) text formatting no longer works at
the forums.  Quoting from a post isn't available, and basic text formatting,
such as paragraph breaks, isn't available.  I want to make sure you're aware
that your software seems out dated perhaps - at the least, it's no longer
functioning properly with the current version of Firefox, the most-used
browser next to IE (which I won't touch anymore.)

Randy B.
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Hi Randy,

Cakewalk ia using a rather old version of our software (3.5). We have at
this moment version 3.9 which works perfectly with all current browsers and
they can upgrade to it free of charge.

Regards,

Samuel Chou
ASPPlayground.net

rbowser


OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION FROM Samuel Chou at ASPPlayground.net re: Cakewalk's out-dated forum software
------------------------

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Bowser [mailto:forum@aspplayground.net] 
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 10:54 AM
To:  admin@aspplayground.net
Subject: General Inquiry

I'm a very active member of the Cakewalk/Sonar forums which are powered by
ASPPlayground.  I keep my browser, Firefox, up to date.  With the most
recent upgrades of Firefox (6 and 6.0.1) text formatting no longer works at
the forums.  Quoting from a post isn't available, and basic text formatting,
such as paragraph breaks, isn't available.  I want to make sure you're aware
that your software seems out dated perhaps - at the least, it's no longer
functioning properly with the current version of Firefox, the most-used
browser next to IE (which I won't touch anymore.)

Randy B.
------------------------------------------------
Hi Randy,

Cakewalk ia using a rather old version of our software (3.5). We have at
this moment version 3.9 which works perfectly with all current browsers and
they can upgrade to it free of charge.

Regards,

Samuel Chou
ASPPlayground.net

Heh, why doesn't this surprise me

Use another browser for posting. Keep or rollback Firefox. The problem will be fixed soon. I use Internet Exploder for posting, when I remember to use it. Obviously I did not use it now.

SteveStrummerUK

ba_midi 


.... which only proves that this forum software needs a way better search function!

 
Harsh, but fair
 
Actually Billy, you could have just said "this forum software needs a search function"
 
Myself, I use the Search only the current website button  on the Google Toolbar - it works everytime.
 
 
 

Hehe, gee, Steve ... "harsh" would have been to use a word that rhymes with "ducks" ;)

I strictly refuse to use Chrome (it's from my favorite data sampling company Google)

You're already reporting to Google every time you read this forum.

Bitflipper: so you know what I'm talking about. ;-) By the way, it's very well possible to prevent Google from getting as much information as they would like to gather, and I use some of these possibilities. They are just a bunch of helpful data thieves from my view: they offer help just to get what they want: data and money, and MUCH of both, until nobody gets around them any more and they can misuse whatever they want: from book author rights up to personal data.

kevo

Hehe, gee, Steve ... "harsh" would have been to use a word that rhymes with "ducks" ;)

Yeah - dat's it!