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Windows PC.

Amazon is malfunctioning while using Firefox 17. There is no "add
to cart" and other buttons. Amazon works fine in Internet
Explorer, but I'd rather not.

Anybody else using Firefox 17 in Windows having trouble with
Amazon?

Thanks.
 
Windows PC.

Amazon is malfunctioning while using Firefox 17. There is no "add
to cart" and other buttons. Amazon works fine in Internet
Explorer, but I'd rather not.

Anybody else using Firefox 17 in Windows having trouble with
Amazon?

Thanks.
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My firefox is 6 years old.

I quit their game when the extension issues became one of
incompatibility: Individual and private party effort and work given to
a better functional contribution, for FF to ignore them on subsequent
updates, I saw as much as unconscionable, on the part of FF,
subsequent to any willingness, on my part, then to forgo extensions
I'd adapted to.

You're not alone, though, among recent surmises and rumbles, I've
noticed, heading elsewhere for the browser experience.

Rather -- to some extent a dependency on web engines and supportive
language layerings within how presentment is conceived consequent.

I think an image linked and drawn to represent a cart - a place for
you to deposit your wage earnings for web-based merchants - is well-
within consequences a browser environment ought sponsor.

Although, I do tend to think at a level of perfunctorily experience,
perhaps at a lower level of HTML markups some web entities either
haven't need to eclipse, fashionably, pro forma to eye candy or mobile
extensions of limited resources, otherwise.

For my staid lack of concessions, in summation, need, and to purpose,
might such occasions when shopping carts are obscured by a flashing of
neon glittery at Tinsel Town's latest offerings - I've a Pale Moon,
ostensibly in a standalone configuration, hot-keyed and linked - and
ready to paste occasional off-the-beat site addresses.
 
Windows PC.



Amazon is malfunctioning while using Firefox 17. There is no "add

to cart" and other buttons. Amazon works fine in Internet

Explorer, but I'd rather not.



Anybody else using Firefox 17 in Windows having trouble with

Amazon?
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I just upgraded to Firefox 17.0.1 and don't see any problems with Amazon, I see the Add to Cart button, but during the update process it did say that Adobe PDF reader plug in had to be disabled. However, checking it just now shows it does in fact work OK.

RL
 
RayLopez99 said:
I just upgraded to Firefox 17.0.1 and don't see any problems with Amazon, I see the Add to Cart button, but during the update process it did say that Adobe PDF reader plug in had to be disabled. However, checking it just now shows it does in fact work OK.

RL
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"Add to Cart" could be Javascript.

You could try unticking, saving, reticking, saving, and
see if Firefox will load the Javascript.

Depending on what silly features Firefox has in terms of
"protecting" the user, it could be that somehow Amazon has
been marked as untrustworthy or something.

Another possibility is that the behavior could change,
whether a user logs into Amazon before shopping. Perhaps
the browser ends up using https links rather than http. And
to negotiate an https session might require certificates
and then the information in the certificate store would matter.
In the past, users have been asked to zorch entries in their
certificate store, for security reasons. Perhaps a past
"repair" of such, got carried forward. So https would
add its own set of issues, if it happens to be used in the
current case.

When debugging, you check a browser for any "error consoles"
it's got, as well as looking at View : Source, to understand
what kind of code is in the web page. A packet sniffer helps
a tiny bit, with http, but would be relatively useless
for https debugging (as then, the session is encrypted).

Your AddOn collection could have something to do with it
as well. Like maybe NoScript or whatever. The fun
never ends.

Paul
 
Sat, 1 Dec 2012 01:25:14 +0000 (UTC): written by John Doe
Windows PC.

Amazon is malfunctioning while using Firefox 17. There is no "add
to cart" and other buttons. Amazon works fine in Internet
Explorer, but I'd rather not.

Anybody else using Firefox 17 in Windows having trouble with
Amazon?
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Not Amazon, but on some other websites the data entry boxes are not
visible until after I receive an error message. I recently switched to a
new monitor so I've been attributing my not seeing the boxes to the
contrast on the new monitors, but your post has me wondering if it might
be something else.
 
I am running FF17, and I don't have any problems like you have with amazon.

All the buttons and boxes are there for me.
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At least among the top 5 browsers used, that shouldn't be surprising.
I'd also think there would be a better focus of what the issues are
from those complaining. As to whether its standing more of late has
dropped, and what specifics or validity apply to the issues -- always
just great bring them to attention from a perspective of running a 6-
yr-old version of program without the experience to give a clearer
perspective. Piecemeal for guts in the depths of the rumor gist biz.

No I don't have problems either with a FireFox derivative and Amazon,
but that's Pale Moon - based on the FireFox engine, much newer and
running out of a standalone configuration with no installation or very
little else involved. Works great for such as BestBuy,
WalMart. . .things oriented on the heavier side of scripting and a
multimedia approach. Just doesn't get near as heavy use, as I first
tend to drop sites I can't for various reasons see - a bother when
skimming along on auto-cruise to hotkey and cross copy URLs into
another browser environ.
 
I backed up the profile, uninstalled Firefox 17.0.1, restarted,
installed Firefox 17.0.1, started Firefox, and there on the bright
white window was the Amazon "add to cart" button where it should
be.

Then I replaced the profile with a backup copy and the "add to
cart" button is no longer there. It's not the fact that I use a
dark background, because even then that button would show up as a
changed mouse cursor when hovering. Obviously it's a setting/data
problem, somewhere. My job, find it.
 
Paul said:
"Add to Cart" could be Javascript.
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I looked around. Tried reinstalling Firefox. Also reinstalled
Java.

Apparently it was a too-inclusive Adblock filter. I was trying too
hard to get rid of the bright white Amazon advertisement windows.
 
John Doe said:
Apparently it was a too-inclusive Adblock filter. I was trying too
hard to get rid of the bright white Amazon advertisement windows.
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Oh. So Flasherly's rant was for nought?
 
Oh. So Flasherly's rant was for nought?
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Forgive me, but the sound of a rant misplaces nought by any
mathematical significance, were then naught so placed within
implication literary better conveys.
 
Windows PC.

Amazon is malfunctioning while using Firefox 17. There is no "add
to cart" and other buttons. Amazon works fine in Internet
Explorer, but I'd rather not.

Anybody else using Firefox 17 in Windows having trouble with
Amazon?

Thanks.
Click to expand...

Firefox in Linux has been utter shite since about version 10.
So I have turned off automatic updates on all my PCs whether Windows
or Linux.
 
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