On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 10:42:14AM +0000, David Simon Cooper wrote:
It makes me wonder what an earth the developes at ebay are putting into their code. I know the site is all Microsoft software. Me and a group
From what I know about ebay a reasonable amount of the backend is
running on Unix machines (mainly proprietary Unix and proprietary software, but hey).
Why the hell can't ebay developers do the same? It's not that hard. I think I may have to get hold of a developers release of Firefox and test that.
I think the problem is more subtle than that, as using Firefox 1.0.7 from Windows and the site works fine, just using the same (but packaged by Ubuntu) version on my desktop causes timeouts. I would think the best way forward would be for someone with lots of Web development experience tries to actually track down the bug and then point out to ebay that there is a problem, what the problem is and how it can be fixed. It could be as simple that they don't know there is a problem or what the problem is. I did read a thread on the community forums at ebay.co.uk where someone said the problem is with include.ebaystatic.com.
Of course, I'm browsing ebay right now, with *no* problems at all which is most strange. Only thing of note is that I cleared the firefox cookies, cache etc. yesterday.
Thanks Adam