Take back your iWeb galleries in Firefox 3

Just as Firefox users were upgrading to version 3 last week, many people started to miss their iWeb-created galleries as they just disappeared. Well, one iWeb user has been doing extra work to fix Apple's? (erm... Mozilla's?) problem. Joshua Ochs has posted an in-depth article on his site describing exactly what is going on -- he also provides a fix in the form of a script to patch iWeb.

Joshua says that the problem is neither with Apple nor Mozilla, but with a JavaScript library called "Prototype" which is used by iWeb. Right now there are two ways to fix the problem (neither of which are supported by Apple): you can use the information on Apple's Discussion Board, or you can download Joshua's script -- both seem to work and are free.

[via ArsTechnica]

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mac_fanataic

Will iWeb pages still work in Firefox 2 after the patch?

July 11 2008 at 12:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kevin Sorensen

I'm not sure what the hub-bub is all about. Either that, or someone snuck into my house and added this script without me knowing about it. I upgraded to Firefox 3 last week as soon as it came out. When I read this post today, I thought, well, let's check this out. I went to my galleries and wouldn't you know it: there they are, just as nice as they are in Safari 3. Sometimes, my Macs are just too amazing - they healed themselves before they even knew they were sick!

June 24 2008 at 6:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

nilusworld

wow ... just noticed it is albums and pictures galleries not working. Any fix out there?

June 23 2008 at 6:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jim

Unable to download and install patch; "error finding replacement files."

June 23 2008 at 5:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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mettmann

same issue here - "error finding replacement files."

June 23 2008 at 7:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joshua Ochs

My apologies. I pushed a new version that locates iWeb in its default location (trying to make it even simpler).... and instead I broke it. Missed a slash in a bad spot. A fixed version is due on MacUpdate as soon as they approve the submission.

June 23 2008 at 11:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Yupp it doesn't find the HeaderControls.js file in the HeaderControls.iwdgt folder!

June 23 2008 at 3:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tony

Reading the apple thread makes it clear that this fix does not in fact work for most people.

June 23 2008 at 1:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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mark freeman

It does actually, its just some people don't realise you still have to make a slight change to the main gallery, like add a full stop, so the main gallery turns red. Publish it and its all back!

June 23 2008 at 6:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

CaptSaltyJack

iDisk is also broken. Not quite Firefox's fault, but Apple's. Rather than this proper syntax:

They do this:

which is incorrect. iDisk comes up as a blank web page in Firefox 3. Serious issue, as far as I'm concerned.

June 23 2008 at 1:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Joshua Ochs

Note that I didn't create the actual Javascript patches to Prototype that fix this, so any issues with that I can't help with. I just took the fix and made it point-and-click until Apple releases an iWeb 2.0.4 (as they surely will).

Hope this helps people!

June 23 2008 at 1:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply