The Happiness Project: Firefox problems?

THE HAPPINESS PROJECT is the memoir of the year I spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific studies, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier – happily, it was a #1 New York Times bestseller. As one of the hundreds of experiments I've conducted, I started this blog. Here, I recount my daily adventures in pursuit of happiness. –

Gretchen Rubin

Twelve Personal Commandments

Four Splendid Truths

First: To be happier, you have to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.
Second: One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy; One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.
Third: The days are long, but the years are short. (click the link to see my one-minute movie)
Fourth: You’re not happy unless you think you’re happy.

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What Started Me Thinking

"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up." Mark Twain
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.” Robert Louis Stevenson
"Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her." Luke 10:41-42
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.” Simone Weil
“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” Colette
“It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.” G. K. Chesterton
“A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.” Joseph Addison
“Best is good. Better is best.” Lisa Grunwald
“Order is Heaven’s first law.” Alexander Pope

Happiness Theories I Reject

Flaubert: "To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness; though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless."
Vauvenargues: “There are men who are happy without knowing it.”
Eric Hoffer: “The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”
Sartre: "Hell is other people."
Willa Cather: “One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them…”
Alexander Smith: “We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.”
John Stuart Mill: “Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”

Firefox problems?

I've heard some Firefox users that they're seeing weird images. My beloved Typepad tech support has asked if I cold find out what version of the browser these folks are using -- to them, it looks fine in the latest Firefox 2.0. So if you're seeing the problem, if you could take a second to let me know your version, it would be a huge help.

Thanks!

Posted July 28, 2008

Comments

Looks fine to me! Firefox 3.0 on Ubuntu Linux 8.40.

Posted by: Shadowduck | July 28, 2008 at 01:57 PM

I'm using the latest Fire Fox 3.0.1, and everything looks fine as well.

Posted by: adora | July 28, 2008 at 02:02 PM

As Shadowduck pointed out, the most recent version of Firefox is 3.0. That's what I'm using on Windows XP and everything looks good from here. Hope you can sort out the issue.

Posted by: evil dad | July 28, 2008 at 02:07 PM

It looks fine here too, Firefox 3.0.1 on MacOS 10.5.4.

Posted by: Ruben | July 28, 2008 at 02:17 PM

Looks fine. Firefox v2.0

Posted by: edgar | July 28, 2008 at 02:26 PM

Looks fine to me, too. I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.16 and Safari 3.1.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.11.

Posted by: Jeni | July 28, 2008 at 02:34 PM

I'm on FireFox 2.0.0.16 and no problems (on either my MacOS 10 and Windows XP platforms).

Posted by: pat | July 28, 2008 at 02:38 PM

I'm on FireFox 2.0.0.16 and no problems (on either my MacOS 10 and Windows XP platforms).

Posted by: pat | July 28, 2008 at 02:45 PM

Sorry, you're getting all people who are saying that it's fine...I'm on FF 3.0.1 on WinXP SP3.

Posted by: Cecily T | July 28, 2008 at 04:02 PM

this is good! maybe the problem has magically fixed itself. This DOES happen sometimes with internet stuff...I'll keep my fingers crossed to see if anyone posts with a bad image.

I appreciate your taking the time to let me know!

Posted by: Gretchen Rubin | July 28, 2008 at 04:04 PM

Using Firefox 3.0.1. and everything looks fine.

Posted by: Kat | July 28, 2008 at 07:56 PM

All fine for me:

- Firefox 3 Portable on Windows XP at work
- Firefox 2 on OSX Tiger at home

Posted by: Helen | July 28, 2008 at 08:36 PM

The fact that Typepad tech support claims Firefox 2.0 is the latest version of that browser speaks volumes.

Posted by: Marcus | July 29, 2008 at 08:16 AM

Firefox 3.0.1 and everything looks great.

Posted by: Brian | July 29, 2008 at 08:31 AM

What kind of weird images? Perhaps they have an infection. Have them scan with a good AV product and also to scan for rootkits with Rootkit Revealer.

Posted by: geoff | July 29, 2008 at 12:59 PM

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Gretchen Rubin is the best-selling writer whose book, The Happiness Project, is the account of the year she spent test-driving studies and theories about how to be happier. Here, she shares her insights to help you create your own happiness project.