Since a few days ago I have been experiencing problems with the standard build of Firefox as provided within Ubuntu Breezy (1.0.7) and Ebay.
I can browse lists of items for sale with no problems but if I try and open the details of an item (usually I do this in a new tab with a middle click) it sits there loading perpetually. Eventually the page may load but more often than not results in a time out when contacting cgi.ebay.co.uk
Another Ubuntu machine at the office is showing the same behaviour, and an Apple Powerbook on my home connection works fine using safari. So I don't think it's connectivity related.
Tried disabling the Http pipelining as I have heard that this can cause problems with some sites and that made no difference.
Is this an Ubuntu update that has broken Firefox or is ebay at fault, can someone else with Firefox confirm/deny that they can repeat this problem..
Ta muchly.
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:56:13PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Since a few days ago I have been experiencing problems with the standard build of Firefox as provided within Ubuntu Breezy (1.0.7) and Ebay.
I can browse lists of items for sale with no problems but if I try and open the details of an item (usually I do this in a new tab with a middle click) it sits there loading perpetually. Eventually the page may load but more often than not results in a time out when contacting cgi.ebay.co.uk
Another Ubuntu machine at the office is showing the same behaviour, and an Apple Powerbook on my home connection works fine using safari. So I don't think it's connectivity related.
Tried disabling the Http pipelining as I have heard that this can cause problems with some sites and that made no difference.
Is this an Ubuntu update that has broken Firefox or is ebay at fault, can someone else with Firefox confirm/deny that they can repeat this problem..
I've been finding EBay quite slow recently with Firefox 1.0.7 and with Firefox 1.5, however it's not timed out on me. I put it down to being busy as Christmas approaches and BitTorrent using some of my bandwidth.
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:56:13PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I can browse lists of items for sale with no problems but if I try and open the details of an item (usually I do this in a new tab with a middle click) it sits there loading perpetually. Eventually the page may load but more often than not results in a time out when contacting cgi.ebay.co.uk
It has been happening to me for a few weeks now, it even happened with IE using XP (Yup, I got so annoyed I dared to use IE on the internet!) so I don't think it is a problem specific to Firefox. It seems to be an intermittant problem where you can't browse individual items and then they suddenly all work and a few minutes later the same problem occurs. It all seemed to start happening when ebay started their television ad campaign... so it could be that they don't have enough kit to keep up?
If it is some other problem then let me know if you find a fix!
Thanks Adam
Thanks for that guys
It seems you are right, It must have been pure coincidence the other day that when I tried it from the powerbook it was working.
Today I notice that I can open more details pages on the Ubuntu machine so it as you say looks to be a Christmas rush or something.
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 10:40 +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
It has been happening to me for a few weeks now, it even happened with IE using XP (Yup, I got so annoyed I dared to use IE on the internet!)
Gosh you are a brave man, I hope you ran at least two passes of MS Anti Spyware and then one pass of search and destroy (To catch any of the spyware companies that MS may have considered buying and therefore have downgraded in their malicious software database) *grin*
Ta
Wayne
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:28:21PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Since a few days ago I have been experiencing problems with the standard build of Firefox as provided within Ubuntu Breezy (1.0.7) and Ebay.
Assume you mean Firefos 1.0.7??
Firefox is not at 1.5.
Oh yes it is! :-)
Firefox 1.5 was released a week or so ago.
On 12/6/05, Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:28:21PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Since a few days ago I have been experiencing problems with the standard build of Firefox as provided within Ubuntu Breezy (1.0.7) and Ebay.
Assume you mean Firefos 1.0.7?? Firefox is not at 1.5.
Oh yes it is! :-) Firefox 1.5 was released a week or so ago.
Most distributions have not updated yet, and I suspect most Gentoo users are still rebuilding ;-)
Tim.
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:55:04PM +0000, Tim Green wrote:
On 12/6/05, Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:28:21PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Since a few days ago I have been experiencing problems with the standard build of Firefox as provided within Ubuntu Breezy (1.0.7) and Ebay.
Assume you mean Firefos 1.0.7?? Firefox is not at 1.5.
Oh yes it is! :-) Firefox 1.5 was released a week or so ago.
Most distributions have not updated yet, and I suspect most Gentoo users are still rebuilding ;-)
I just downloaded Firefox 1.5 from www.mozilla.org and installed it, what's with worrying about whether my particular Linux distribution has 'updated' yet?
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:52:56PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:55:04PM +0000, Tim Green wrote:
On 12/6/05, Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:28:21PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Since a few days ago I have been experiencing problems with the standard build of Firefox as provided within Ubuntu Breezy (1.0.7) and Ebay.
Assume you mean Firefos 1.0.7?? Firefox is not at 1.5.
Oh yes it is! :-) Firefox 1.5 was released a week or so ago.
Most distributions have not updated yet, and I suspect most Gentoo users are still rebuilding ;-)
I just downloaded Firefox 1.5 from www.mozilla.org and installed it, what's with worrying about whether my particular Linux distribution has 'updated' yet?
Because most people care about their system and don't install random stuff in random places? (Having said that, that's what I've got ~/other/local for ;)
Cheers,
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:57:05PM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:52:56PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:55:04PM +0000, Tim Green wrote:
On 12/6/05, Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:28:21PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Since a few days ago I have been experiencing problems with the standard build of Firefox as provided within Ubuntu Breezy (1.0.7) and Ebay.
Assume you mean Firefos 1.0.7?? Firefox is not at 1.5.
Oh yes it is! :-) Firefox 1.5 was released a week or so ago.
Most distributions have not updated yet, and I suspect most Gentoo users are still rebuilding ;-)
I just downloaded Firefox 1.5 from www.mozilla.org and installed it, what's with worrying about whether my particular Linux distribution has 'updated' yet?
Because most people care about their system and don't install random stuff in random places? (Having said that, that's what I've got ~/other/local for ;)
For most things I sort of agree with you, I like to use 'proper' Slackware packages when I can, but for browsers and stuff I tend to go direct.
I do also build quite a lot myself from source as I use a few relatively 'rare' programs (like vile/xvile) which simply aren't available as Slackware packages. The configure that comes with most of these tends to put them in /usr/local anyway.
What is lost by having things installed in (possibly) odd places?
Chris Green wrote:
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:28:21PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Since a few days ago I have been experiencing problems with the standard build of Firefox as provided within Ubuntu Breezy (1.0.7) and Ebay.
Assume you mean Firefos 1.0.7??
Firefox is not at 1.5.
Oh yes it is! :-)
Firefox 1.5 was released a week or so ago.
That was a typo but looking at the keyboard the t and w are a ways apart so I am not sure how I did it ;-)
Ian
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:41:33PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
Chris Green wrote:
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:28:21PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Since a few days ago I have been experiencing problems with the standard build of Firefox as provided within Ubuntu Breezy (1.0.7) and Ebay.
Assume you mean Firefos 1.0.7??
Firefox is not at 1.5.
Oh yes it is! :-)
Firefox 1.5 was released a week or so ago.
That was a typo but looking at the keyboard the t and w are a ways apart so I am not sure how I did it ;-)
What was a typo - I'm confused! Ah, yes, you meant "Firefox is now at 1.5", unconfused again, I think.
On 06-Dec-05 Chris Green wrote:
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:41:33PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
Chris Green wrote:
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:28:21PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Since a few days ago I have been experiencing problems with the standard build of Firefox as provided within Ubuntu Breezy (1.0.7) and Ebay.
Assume you mean Firefos 1.0.7??
Firefox is not at 1.5.
Oh yes it is! :-)
Firefox 1.5 was released a week or so ago.
That was a typo but looking at the keyboard the t and w are a ways apart so I am not sure how I did it ;-)
What was a typo - I'm confused! Ah, yes, you meant "Firefox is now at 1.5", unconfused again, I think.
I can see what the mistake was, but I woudn't call it a typo. When I do that sort of thing, it's a braino.
Cheers, Ted.
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