Firefox kills tamil
Firefox may be celebrated as the best browser among all techies, thwy may curse IE and go anti-Micorsoft, but when it comes to internationalisation, Firefox fails. For example, thou firefox supports Unicode(UT- 
as it says, it couldnt deliver tamil pages properly, it mispells most of the words. I have cited the screenshot of a page opened in both the browsers IE and FireFox, Firefox doesnt support tamil.
on January 10, 2007 on 10:49 am
It does supports Unicode and renders Tamil fonts. Its something to do with the system. On my friend’s laptop, it works fine without any additional installations, but on my previous laptop, it didn’t. But, after installing Tamil LIP from Microsoft, it was working fine. (Thou it has no obvious connectios with Firefox)
on January 10, 2007 on 11:38 am
Nope, Its nothin to do with the system, U open any tamil site/text in firefox, it wont b proper, only IE delivers the rite text
on January 17, 2007 on 9:55 pm
A guide for how to properly view Tamil unicode in Firefox 2.0 is avaible her: http://thavarajah.dk/tips-tricks/59/
on February 3, 2007 on 10:03 pm
I haven’t had any trouble in viewing Unicode Tamil in firefox on windows XP. But I have that problem on Mac OS X. Safari renders it properly but not firefox.
on February 15, 2007 on 8:27 am
Hey i am viewing all the tamil unicode sites using firefox .
never encountered any problem
check this link may help you
http://www.tamilnadutalk.com/portal/index.php?showtopic=5430
on June 22, 2007 on 9:09 pm
http://microblog.ravidreams.net/?p=24 - Rendering tamil letters in firefox - tips, tricks, extensions, troubleshooting, solution
on November 21, 2007 on 1:02 pm
On Mac OS X, I installed the latest Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 and it is rendering Unicode Tamil perfectly! Hurrah!