Firefox passes the Acid2 test
Thanks to this little Greasemonkey script made by Anne van Kesteren. And it’s only five lines of code! Who would have though it would be so easy?
After installing the script, head over to the Acid2 test page and v’oila! It just works!
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June 6th, 2005 at 7:28 pm
Tell me if I am wrong, but this just replaces the code for the test with a call to load the reference image right?
It doesn’t make you pass the test, it bypasses it.
June 7th, 2005 at 2:17 am
Yup. That’s the magic of greasemonkey. Right in your face.
What did you expect from five lines of code, anyway? It’s not Ruby on Rails
March 5th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
That’s not passing the test, that’s removing the test. If I were at school and hand in a blank paper instead of the test I was supposed to make, I wouldn’t be considered to have passed the test. No offense to Fx, but this is plainly wrong.
March 6th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
There’s this virtue called “reading with understanding”. Some people seem to lack it…
March 12th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
this should be removed.
November 18th, 2006 at 5:31 am
Wow that’s funny.
Too bad a sense of humour is also apparently lacking in more than a few.
But a dry wit gets used to it.
March 13th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
In my opinion Opera is the best browser at this moment. In my experience I have never had problems with it. However I had alot of performance problems with firefox.
August 3rd, 2007 at 5:56 am
Opera is a piece of shit. IE4ever
August 10th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
I had a few times where I would go on with Opera for a few days, but I always returned to the much more powerfull Firefox.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:48 am
so if you consider firefox does not have to pass the test if it can simply replace it with an image, maybe you could do the same for the rest of the internet? i would be very thankful if you could upload a picture of every single site on the internet so that it always looks correctly instead of being rendered using the browser’s buggy engine. thank you!
December 28th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Aside from bypassing a single site of many, the default urls that the script uses no longer match the current Acid2 url location, thus making the script disabled til you change the url in the configuration.
Basically doesn’t fix anything but rather modified one single instance of a known problem which does nothing for the rest of the net.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Karl -> It was meant as a joke. Thanks for the tip about the url change.
June 9th, 2008 at 4:24 am
On a slightly more serious note, it will be interesting to see how Firefox 3 renders the Acid2 test.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
My Firefox3 RC2 passes it flawlessly.
July 7th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Firefox 3 also passed pretty flawlessly for me.
July 31st, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Opera is the best browser at this moment.