Newegg messed up?

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John Doe

Is there something wrong with their website, or is it my browser?

If you see the same thing I do, the problem will be obvious.
 
According to your link, Yes, that is how it is supposed to look.
All ok on my end too
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I am running Firefox 3.6.17, maybe they want me to upgrade to
version 4.
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I am running Firefox 3.6.17, maybe they want me to upgrade to
version 4.
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Looks fine to me, viewing with Firefox 3.6.17 running on Ubuntu Linux
10.10; also looks fine to me on Firefox 4.0.1 running on Windows XP,
and IE8 running on XP.
 
Is there something wrong with their website, or is it my browser?

If you see the same thing I do, the problem will be obvious.
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Everything and everything I could use to look at NewEgg worked fine
here. Linux (Mepis), Win98SE, Win 7, various browsers on each.

This is conjecture and SWAG, but the trojan writers have been targeting
many e-commerce sites, and it wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure
out that there's some big bucks spent on NewEgg.

(and yes, this could have been just a fluke... but)

Any place that has a big-money flow is subject to this.

My SWAG (Scientific Wild-Assed Guess) is that you've picked up a "nasty"
from somewhere. What happens is that the trojan manipulates what you
enter into the browser and re-routes it thru a proxy site that snags
your vitals.

What often does show up is a whacky website (my guess on what you saw on
NewEgg). Those proxies often don't work worth a damn (thank ghu!),
resulting in garbage.

Methinks you need to run a good "antimalware app" .




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Nobody > (Revisited) said:
Methinks you need to run a good "antimalware app" .
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Not likely, but I am going to restore my C drive shortly, so I will
check then. There are no other websites that are messed up, and it
works fine in Internet Explorer.
 
Update... Their website is still messed up. No other websites are
messed up like Newegg is on my computer.

I am not complaining. I do not use it much lately anyway. I might
need a video card, but that is my only foreseeable purchase. And I
can always shop elsewhere and just plug the part number into the
search box at the top.
 
Update... Their website is still messed up. No other websites are
messed up like Newegg is on my computer.

I am not complaining. I do not use it much lately anyway. I might
need a video card, but that is my only foreseeable purchase. And I
can always shop elsewhere and just plug the part number into the
search box at the top.
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The fact that it works for you on IE for you means that it is browser
dependent. You might have an add-in installed in your browser that is
messing with things. Try disabling all of your add-ins and if the
problem disappears, enable each add-in one at a time until the problem
reappears.
 
Astropher said:
John Doe said:


The fact that it works for you on IE for you means that it is
browser dependent. You might have an add-in installed in your
browser that is messing with things.
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The fact that I see no problems on any other website that I visit
suggests that Newegg is doing something different. I visit plenty
of websites that use Adobe stench, but I suspect that has
something to do with it. Or maybe it has something to do with
Adblock.

On the Newegg page that I see in Firefox, is written... "If you
are reading this message, Please click this link to reload this
page.(Do not use your browser's "Refresh" button). Please email us
if you're running the latest version of your browser and you still
see this message."

I do not recall ever seeing a message like that on any other
website. They should IMO provide a clue to what the problem might
be, apparently they have some idea.

Actually, the fact that it works in Internet Explorer means I can
just use Internet Explorer for Newegg's website, to use their
search engine.

Again, it is more something to speculate about, it is not really a
problem.
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The fact that I see no problems on any other website that I visit
suggests that Newegg is doing something different. I visit plenty
of websites that use Adobe stench, but I suspect that has
something to do with it. Or maybe it has something to do with
Adblock.
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Adblock could well be implicated.
On the Newegg page that I see in Firefox, is written... "If you
are reading this message, Please click this link to reload this
page.(Do not use your browser's "Refresh" button). Please email us
if you're running the latest version of your browser and you still
see this message."

I do not recall ever seeing a message like that on any other
website. They should IMO provide a clue to what the problem might
be, apparently they have some idea.

Actually, the fact that it works in Internet Explorer means I can
just use Internet Explorer for Newegg's website, to use their
search engine.

Again, it is more something to speculate about, it is not really a
problem.
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Agree, it is not a major problem considering that you can access the
site with IE if you need. I don't use Newegg myself except to read
customer reviews every now and then.

I am not so impressed with Firefox these days. The recent iterations
are real memory hogs compared with Chrome and Safari.
 
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