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I've just transitioned from Firefox to Google Chrome (http://www.google.com/chrome) as my primary browser on my XP laptop.

The first main issue I noticed was that the drop down boxes in the message composition web control has some problems with the richtext rendering. For example, from chrome, the size menu looks like this:
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From Firefox the size menu looks like this:
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-http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/500/ChromeBug1.jpg
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The next issue is that the drop down for "Thread Tools" in the top Nav bar doesn't drop down, here's an example
Here's a screen capture
-http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/500/ChromeBug2.jpg
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Now the interesting part is that other vBulletin (PC for example) don't have any problems. Anyway... Chrome is awesome and it may be simply a matter of putting a case statement in to treat Chrome clients just like firefox or IE clients.

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I've noticed some weird bits with Chrome here too I've been using it almost exclusively since the week after it made the news.

It may be that newer versions of VBulletin play a little nicer with that browser.

We've looked at upgrading but the sheer number of customizations installed here make that a daunting undertaking. I had originally planned to do that as part of the transition to the new server over the summer but we got rushed due to necessity. :(

Don't rush the upgrade, I've done that too many times and the results are usually the same, but sometimes I got lucky.

Is there anything that happens when the User Agent is parsed?

Chrome (I beleive) comes across as:
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.4.154.25 Safari/525.19"

So vBulletin does something likeIf (UA == "IE6")
{
serve_up_IE();
}
else if (UA == "Moz")
{
serve_up_Moz();
}
else
{
serve_up_Bug();
}

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LOL! I don't think so but I can check tomorrow. ;)

Joomla does, so did SMF, and phpbb, if the freebies can, the paid one should

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else
{
serve_up_Bug();
}

Kacey, this is what my "LOL!" was directed at.

I love how they *all* claim to be Mozilla. That is *so* lame.
Me, I just don't send a user-agent header at all most of the time,
or set it to "%s (%d)" and I think I've gronked more than one
server-side application by doing that.
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_H*

Guys, I just made a few hackathon type changes to the code on the back end. Please let me know if this has improved anything for you.

"Thread Tools" still takes me to the forum home

Well shoot. I did enable popups for the browser. I was hoping for better news than that...

It gives this as the address for the thread tools: http://www.cleanmpg.com/forums/#goto_threadtools

Yes, it still isn't recognizing the browser. I may have to restart VBulletin for the changes to get pulled in.

I've restarted VBulletin. Please let me know if there is any change in behavior.

Not in my area of concern, the thread tools still show at the bottom of the threads and if you click the link where the pop-up would show it takes you back to forum home with the same link.

On Today's Posts/New Posts, I only see the new posts part.

I guess I need to do more research, then. :(

I'll have to scrounge a windows machine somewhere so I can test this stuff myself...

Chome hasn't been cross-platformed yet? Tisk tisk Google.

I'll have to scrounge a windows machine somewhere so I can test this stuff myself...This is easy enough to fix. Use some Virtual Server (VMWare or something) then install a Windows Server 2008 evaluation (couldn't find the Vista Evaluation, but might find Windows 7 eval). That should give you 60 days with a Windows VM to kick around on your linux box.

WS08 eval.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/trial-software.aspx

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Thanks, Dan!! I'll see if it runs under Qemu...

I think I have it licked now. Can someone verify for me?

As a side effect, this should also fix any Safari on Windows issues...

Fixed!!! I've verified it under Chrome!!!

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Sweet. :D

;):thumbs_up:

I think I have it licked now. Can someone verify for me?

As a side effect, this should also fix any Safari on Windows issues...

Everything works!, even multi quote.

Did you get the private message reminder bug fixed?
In IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari the link about the new PM would bleed onto almost every element of the page, and clicking in a wrong spot would make the paragraph, picture, or even other links into links to your new PMs.

I'm glad it is working for you now, Kacey. :)

No, I haven't addressed that one yet... though it is usually easy enough to avoid on a computer. I usually only get bitten by that one on my iPhone...

Kacey, it took me a while but I found and squashed it. ;)

Enjoy!

Hot dog!, that's what I'm talking about.
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