does not run javascript correctly on some websites

[Ed Pardo]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I would assume it's a Firefox issue but I don't know. Open livescience.com and in the comments try to use the next page or last page links. In Win2000 using IE6 they work correct but in ubuntu 9.04 with Firefox 3 they are dead links. On the same website the page works ok in their forum but the return after making a post sometimes it works and sometimes not but that may be a site issue (I don't know but it works in windows ok).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this issue to Ubuntu. Could it be that your Ad Block Plus extension is blocking it? They are JavaScript links. Can you try disabling that extension to see if that solves your problem? The links work fine for me in Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 3.5.

[Ed Pardo (ed-pardo-epix)]

Ed Pardo wrote:

Sorry. I found out it's not a bug. Firefox in both windows and linux
will not read the links on livescience.com due to ABP addon. By
allowing adds it solves the problem. I guess there is no way for the
ad blocker to distinguish certain javascript used for navigation.

I found this from a conservation with another Firefox user running
windows.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you. Could you please try with the latest version of Adblock Plus to see if this is still an issue?

[Ed Pardo (ed-pardo)]

Micah Gersten wrote:
> Thank you. Could you please try with the latest version of Adblock
> Plus to see if this is still an issue?
>
> ** Package changed: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) => adblock-plus (Ubuntu) I
> have the current version 1.0.2 and does solve the problem IF
> disabled on that site, ie. I have to put up with those roll overs.

I am using version 1.0.2 which is current of ABP.

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[José Ernesto Dávila Pantoja (josernestodavila)]

 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!