There’s a bug in Tesco Direct’s website that makes it almost unusable to firefox 3 users.  It keeps trying to download the aspx files instead of running them on the server - strange and utterly useless if you’re doing some shopping for groceries or a kettle & baby monitor as I was.

Tesco themselves are promising a fix as soon as they roll out a new version of the website which could be 2010 from my experience of rolling out software…  It took a bit of searching but I found a workaround and thankfully it is quite easy.  In the Firefox 3 address bar type:

about:config

and enter the advanced settings.  If you’ve not been here before you’ll need to click “I’ll promise I’ll be careful” or whatever that button says!  Then in the “filter” text box type in “network.http.keep” which should reveal the following option which you should double-click and set it to FALSE:

network.http.keep-alive

Then restart firefox 3 and tesco direct should work just fine.  By the way, the best tip I can give you for online grocery shopping in the UK is to switch between providers often.  Do one at Tesco, one at Sainsburys, one at ASDA because after a month the ones that you haven’t used for a while will often send you a voucher for free delivery or something.

I’ve also noticed that ASDA put hardly any of their offers on to the website whereas almost all Sainsburys offers seem to be available on their site which meant that I bought more food for less at Sainsburys last  time I compared them with a like-for-like shopping list.

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