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Re: yahoo mail and firefox



On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 13:25 -0500, Matthew Krauss wrote:
> T wrote:
> > Hi, 
> >
> > Do you use yahoo mail, its web interface, regularly? 
> > Do you use firefox for that? 
> > Have you notice any problems?
> >
> > I access my yahoo mail web interface using firefox almost every day. But I
> > bumped into problem from time to time. Sometimes I have 
> >
> >  Sorry, Bad Request.
> >  Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
> >   
> > when trying to use any of the yahoo mail command buttons, e.g. delete, mark
> > read, mark as spam, sometimes they just simply don't respond when clicking
> > on them.
> >
> > Today, the yahoo mail command buttons are not responding again (when
> > clicking on them). Moreover, every email turns out completely blank.  I
> > tried to "select" the blank space via dragging the mouse but also nothing
> > there. Only "Printable View" can show them. 
> > The problem does not exist when using epiphany. 
> >
> > Have you notice any problems?
> >   
> I'm no expert, but it seems extremely unlikely to me that this is 
> Yahoo's problem, especially since you imply that it has been going on 
> for some time and you have a recent Firefox.  If I had to guess, I would 
> say that it sounds like a problem on your end with Javascript.  You 
> might try disabling that and see if that "fixes" it.  Obviously, this 
> would only hide the problem, unless you are happy to live without 
> Javascript, but could be a useful point of information.
> 

Or try ENABLING it for the yahoo.com domain if you have NoScript or
something like that installed. I had similar problems and enabling
scripts fixed them.

> Also, I download my Yahoo mail with fetchyahoo so that I don't have to 
> go on their web interface at all -- just a suggestion in case you are 
> interested.
> 
> Matthew
> > thanks
> >
> > PS, my firefox:
> >
> > $ apt-cache policy firefox
> > firefox:
> >   Installed: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-1
> >   Candidate: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-1
> >
> >   
> 
> 
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