SillyDog701

[FrankoSport]

Greetings ....

For anyone has been using EBAY within at least 1 hour before this post, as well as those who haven't been on EBAY today --

EBAY is making some changes at its web-site, and whatever they are, Firefox (1.5 on my Win-XP PC) is having trouble handling those changes. On many EBAY pages, the font (Arial) size of certain links is smaller than normal.

On certain EBAY pages, the font type changes from Arial to Times New Roman, and much graphic information is not available. On the top of such pages is this message -- "Note: We recently made changes to enable you to view eBay search pages faster. If your eBay pages are appearing in text-only format due to these changes, please upgrade your Web browser."

At that point, I decided to call up the same pages in MS-IE 6, Opera 8 and Netscape 8.0.4 - and found no problems with any of those browsers.

Personally, I think somebody at EBAY goofed!

If anyone else has experienced Firefox-EBAY issues today, feel free to offer comments.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

[Fulvio]

Any link to a weird page without signing in?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050914 K-Meleon/0.9

[FrankoSport]

Greetings ...

Makes no difference if you sign in or not.

I've made an educated guess that's a scripting problem on EBAY's part. Hopefully someone will fix it soon.

UserAgent: Opera/8.50 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)

[Fulvio]

It is possible that eBay is at fault, but I can't see anything unusual. But, I am not using 1.5 final, but rather 1.5.0.1 rc1.
Of course, if there were no problems before today, while using 1.5, I would say that the website may be at fault. But, not being an eBay user, I can't pass judgment.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

[FrankoSport]

Greetings ...

Just went to EBAY via Firefox on my WIN-98 work computer, and everything's cool. No problems.

I'll be home shortly to see what's what there.

UPDATE: Just got home, only to find EBAY still acting up.

Then, I had a thought - I completely cleared out Firefox's history and cache files, plus deleted any cookies directly related to EBAY, then restarted Firefox.

That did it! We're running fine again! Thank Goodness!

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
This is at Home; Work PC Info Below

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

[Fulvio]

Frank,
your fixes sound reasonable. however, I would have never known about them, if the problem lied in some cache or history item, as I clean up on exiting. And, cookies would not matter , as I had not even attempted to visit eBay in several months. Someone has been trying to access eBay and Paypal with one of my usernames, and I keep getting warning of limited access, or worse, although I never had an account for either. My only solution has been to call all eBay and Paypal mail as Junk, since I am getting nowhere with them. I would never even think of using such services, who insist that I log in to correct matters (remember, I never had an account with either).

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7