Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
> RS wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Amazon.com has a feature called "search inside" where you can peek
>> inside most (but not all) books, look at the table of contents, see an
>> excerpt, etc. Although I had no problem with this in the past, I no
>> longer can search inside books on amazon site with firefox. The
>> ability too peek inside a book seems to be gone in firefox. For the
>> specific books I have in mind, I can still do that with Safari and IE.
>> The
>> firefox on my machine has been updated to version 2.0.0.12. I don't
>> have a amazon plugin, but I never needed one, and I don't know if it
>> is required to get all the features rendered correctly. I am wondering
>> if anyone else is having similar problems. I am running noscript, but
>> disabling that won't fix the problem.
>>
>> Thanks
>> RS
>
> can you provide some links so we can test out whats going on? And tell
> us what we're supposed to look for. Thanks
>
Thanks for your respond. As a simple example, I can search with Safari
(OS X) and with IE (Win XP), inside the following book
http://www.amazon.com/Parameter-Estimation-Scientists-Engineers-Adriaan/dp/0470147814/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204032666&sr=8-1
Basically there is an area next to the book image where where you put
the mouse and the site shows a text saying you can search inside the
book. I have firefox on both machines and neither one can do search
inside the book. That is, firefox no longer sees the area. The thing is
that I had no problem with firefox a couple of weeks ago before. Also,
on the OS X machine I have noscript (which I disabled and didn't make a
difference). On the windows machine I have no plugins. I thought perhaps
has inadvertently changed something on their site, but if you guys don't
see the problem, that is even more confusing to me.
Thanks again,
RS
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