On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 11:26:43PM +0000, David Simon Cooper wrote:
Fellow brothers and sisters of the great God Linus, hear my cries and show me mercy (Not the one on Prince of Wales road).
I looked at some posts from last month regarding ebay and Firefox. I am having so many problems with using ebay now I am having to use my Windows PC when ebaying.
I use Fedora Core 4 (have been using FC series for several years) and KDE as shipped with the stabdard FC4 build. I have tried both firefox 1.0.4 and 1.5 and both just hang and time out when trying to view listings. "MyEbay" is a little slow but works. I tried Konqueror which was worse and Epiphany which was a little better.
I have not actively used ebay for a few months so.......is FC4 no good for ebay or have Ebay added more MS only junk to the dynamic content that it won't work properly?. I know my firewall is fine as Ebay works fine on the windows PC's in my shared house.
P.S does anyone else have to do the TCP/IP MTU trick with iptables to allow clamping of TCP/IP MTU sizes? I had to do this 6 months ago to get ebay working at all in my house when I moved. My old house 1 mile away did not require any such TCP/IP MTU clamping even though the hardware was the same, maybe something to do with the exchange or BT running gear or just an ebay thing.
I run Firefox 1.5 on Slackware at home and Firefox 1.0.7 on Solaris at work, neither has any problem at all with Ebay. I haven't got any MTU size fixes or anything either. At home this all goes through a Zyxel 660H router, at work I have no idea what it goes through.