Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
> RS wrote:
>> 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
>
> interesting! I've never noticed that before. I can see it in Safari,
> Opera, Netscape 8.1.3, Netscape 9.0.0.5, but not in Firefox, SeaMonkey,
> or IE7. I've tried everything I could, but no go.
>
> Oh, just a minute. I just tried something and it works. Allow popups.
> White List amazon for popups and clear the cache and cookies.
>
> Popups: I don't know about Macs, but in windows its Tools, Options,
> Content, and click the Exceptions button to Popups. Add www.amazon.com
> to the allow list.
>
> Clear cookies and cache: for windows, tools, options, Privacy, click the
> settings button for Private Data, uncheck everything except cache and
> cookies [or check only those two]. OK that window, and go back to the
> Privacy window, then click on the Clear Now button.
>
> Now try amazon. If that doesn't work, then clear everything again, and
> restart FF.
>
> The settings I provided above are for windows. For Mac, I don't know.
> It might be under Edit, Preferences, or something else. Just look
> around for it.
>
Firefox>>Preferences>>Privacy
Lee
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