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Browing msdn with FireFox

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Scott Mitchell still has problems with browsing MSDN using Firefox. I pointed to his first article on the problem. He re-presents his solution to the problem for use on MSDN. As of 12:37 PST on August 25, 2004 MS has applied a patch CSS to the MSDN articles. So now the code isn’t squished together. Yay!

Except they haven’t applied the patch to the MSDN library.

Well, that’s a lot of content to go check and apply the patch to and then regression test to make sure it doesn’t break in other browsers. But I found a work around!:)

First download their patch stylesheet from here or make your own.

PRE
{
	background:#EEEEEE;
	margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:0px;
	padding:5pt;
	white-space:pre;
	word-wrap:break-word;
}

Now there are two paths you can take.
1) create a custom stylesheet for FireFox to use following the instructions here. The downside to this is that it applies this new style to ALL websites you view and this style MIGHT break some of them.

2) Install the Web Developers Extension for FireFox (the official page for it is here) and use it’s “Apply CSS to this page” feature to selectively apply their patch CSS to the MSDN library pages that need it.

You can also create your own CSS patches for any other web pages that are broken in FireFox.