Travelocity and Firefox
 

I've been using Firefox in its various betas and previews and now 1.0 for well over a year, and it works great with the vast majority of websites.

It seems this past week or so travelocity made some changes to their site so that Firefox on my Win2k box no longer works for filling out many of the search forms (I hit "search for flights" and nothing happens, or it returns an error about dates being formatted incorrectly--even when I'm not searching by date). IE on my Win2k box seems to work, but I hate it. Camino on my Mac works, but takes forever to process all the javascripts.

Anybody else notice this? I sent an e-mail to travelocity, but got back a generic "we don't support older browsers--use the lastest IE/Netscape/Mozilla." So I should downgrade browsers to use their site? Puh-lease.

For now I'm just working around the issue by using AmEx's interface to travelocity (go to www.itn.net and it'll redirect you), which is essentially an older version of travelocity. Oh well.

Javascript, Firefox and sites that require encryption is still an issue. I like Firefox but more often than not, it fails when it comes to banking and any interactivity.

Firefox works perfectly with all the banking and other interactive sites I regularly use, including 5 different banks, 3 different webmail systems, and the vast majority of travel sites (except www.elal.co.il). Since Firefox 1.0, it even works well with Ameritrade.

And it worked fine with Travelocity until this week.

I'm having the same problem with Travelocity and Firefox. :td:

Might be some other factor. Travelocity seems to work OK for me using Firefox 1.0.

It works .. there's a little pop-down box that you have to close before it lets the 'search' button do anything. Or use advanced search. It's a PITA.

-David

It works fine for me -- no delays, no problems. However, I am running Firefox on OS X, not Windows.

Try this:

From the homepage (www.travelocity.com)...

1) Fill in two cities
2) Click "flexible dates"
3) Choose two months
4) Click search

Whenever I do this, I get a javascript message:

But there's nothing highlighted. And there's not even a date to format--just chose two months to choose from the dropdown menus.

Changing months and clicking search again results in the same error.

Nobody else is getting this?

Wow, you have flexible travel plans? :D

Seriously, I'm seeing the same thing on 1.0rel.

yes. it seems to have just happened in the past two weeks

Yes .. there's a workaround.

Click on "more search options" and do it from the advanced screen. It seems to work ok there.

-David

A Wall Street Journal Article About Firefox
 

On December 30, 2004, the Wall Street Journal published an article about the advantageous of Firefox over IE. However, the article did mention one of the disadvantageous of Firefox was that "some web sites, especially financial ones, have chosen to tailor themselves specifically for Internet Explorer. They rely on features only present in IE, and either won't work or work poorly in Firefox and other browsers."

For those that need it, there is an extension of Firefox that adds an option called "View this page on IE."

I now use Firefox almost exclusively. However, there are some sites where Firefox does not work properly. For those sites, I have kept IE.

If you have not used Firefox, give it a try. You probably will like it.