Firefox referral

...ads screwed up in firefox?

[Visi]

Decided to see what the referral looked like on my site and added it in a <div> tag. Worked great in IE....but in firefox changed to an ad display and then google attempted to load a banner ad in my rectangle selection. Rechecked the code, reloaded and kept getting this. Firefox 1.5. Anyone else seeing this happening.

Took down that nice new blue tag they had just released.

[ann]

I thoroughly hate FireFox.
It really screws up my order forms and sometimes the ads show correctly and other times they are just plain gibberish.

That's one browser I refuse to give the time of day to. I wonder why Google is promoting a browser that does that to their own ads?

It is random so hard to catch but it happens.

[encyclo]

That's one browser I refuse to give the time of day to.

Firefox has about 10% browser market-share nowadays - if you ignore it and your site does not function well in Firefox, then you are potentially lowering your audience by 10%.

The browser is not at fault - AdSense works just fine in Firefox on thousands of sites, as do the referral buttons. The problem will be with your sites' markup. I would the HTML validator [validator.w3.org] as a good first step.

One possible explanation with the referral buttons not showing is that Google may be checking the user agent string so as not to target users already using Firefox (which would be quite logical as they are very unlikely to download what they already have).

[Visi]

encyclo...that is exactly what is happening....firefox does not bring up the referral. No problem with that, however the rest of the ads then are screwed up, and that is a pain. Simple div tag added...even works in IE:) Site is validated so don't know why this is happening. Being a firefox user that has upgraded to 1.5 didn't know if related to that. Perhaps google tested in 1.07?

[incrediBILL]

That's one browser I refuse to give the time of day to.

We tend to agree on many things but not this time.

I use FireFox almost exclusively except in the rare event someone can't code a web site to save their life and only Internet Exploder with it's many layers of quirk modes can display such crap.

[GranoSalis]

And even in that case you can use the 'IE Tab' extension...

I have experienced problems with Ads in divs in Firefox, though not of exactly the same nature. I eventually solved it by positioning the divs absolutely:

<div style="position: absolute;...">

[Visi]

will give that a try...thanks