Bootstrap 3 carousel left/right arrows not working in Firefox 24

[howster]

Bootstrap 3 carousel left/right arrows not working in Firefox 24

[juthilo]

Can't reproduce using Firefox 24 on Windows XP (assuming that your screenshot is from http://getbootstrap.com/examples/carousel/). What operating system are you using? Please try emptying your cache and see if the problem persists afterwards.

[howster]

Hi issue is running it from ....local directory....bootstrap-3.0.0/bootstrap-3.0.0/examples/carousel/index.html
If i download boostrap 3 to my pc, extract it and open index.html the arrows are missing as per screenshot. http://getbootstrap.com/examples/carousel/ is fine

[juthilo]

Make sure you're including the Glyphicon font files - carousel arrows are using Glyphicon chevrons by default.
Apart from this advice, we can't help you much here without a reproducible example, for example in a JSfiddle/JSbin or on a live site online. This might just be due to an issue with file structure on your end, for further questions that don't relate to a bug or feature request, please try asking on the mailing list instead.

We can reopen this issue if you're able to provide a reproducible example.

[fabiopaiva]

i had this problem using charset ISO-8859-1, fixed when i changed to UTF-8

[juthilo]

@fabiopaiva Our example pages have their charset set to UTF-8 though (as recommended for all Bootstrap users), so that shouldn't be the cause here.

[fabiopaiva]

@juthilo May be he edited the files using an IDE, like Netbeans. In my country Netbeans use ISO-8859-1 as default charset.

[howster]

Hi,
I'm just extracting the bootstrap zip file to a folder on my PC and clicking on the html file relevant to the carousel. Nothing else
Thanks

[cvrebert]

You should use jekyll serve rather than opening the files directly. The file: protocol can cause some issues.

[juthilo]

@howster Yup, this is because, to secure the local filesystem, Firefox will only allow local resources from the folder your page is in and any subdirectories. There should be an error in the console with status code 2147500037. As @cvrebert suggested, use some kind of server setup to make this work as intended.