SharePoint Bug With Firefox

ISSUE
I noticed this around the SharePoint site I’m managing with the Central Administration. When going to select something from a drop down, it doesn’t insert it into the form.

WORK AROUND
Using IE, oddly enough, solves this problem. The selected item is inserted properly into the form.

SPECIAL COMMENT
I’ll begin by saying I am a devoted Mozilla Firefox user. I use IE rarely when Firefox has issues or when TESTING a web application. As a web designer/programmer, I need to make sure that my product can function with any browser. I take the extra step in assuring that my product is fully operational, no matter what browser a user is using. I test my application with Firefox, IE, Safari, and Opera to make sure it works. If it doesn’t, I fix it so that it does work with that browser.

Microsoft programmers, you should be ashamed. To release a tool as powerful and as popular as SharePoint and have it NOT be compatible with one of the most popular browsers as Firefox. How dare you not test your product thoroughly, using multiple browsers. Did you assume that only IE users will use your product? You are wrong, sirs.

If you were to go ahead and make the outrageous requirement to ONLY use IE with SharePoint, why not display an error or a warning message when someone goes to a SharePoint site with a browser other than IE? Seriously. Here I was trying to figure out why it wouldn’t insert my selection when all the while it was because of the browser I was using. Rediculous.

And another thing, why even have this visual show for a simple drop down menu anyway? What a waste of time programming something like that. Why should it open up a completely different window just to insert one little thing? Just make it a simple drop down. Who are you trying to impress? Are we all supposed to be like “ouu, look at that, visually pleasing”. I don’t think so and I am NOT amused.

You wasted my time and my energy trying to research this problem, emailing everyone I could think of who uses SharePoint. Even drafting an email to my boss explaining that I couldn’t do a task because there’s a bug in SharePoint (yeah, that sounds good, right?).

Come on, Microsoft, get with the picture. Good night and good luck.


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