Thanks button not working in Firefox browser

JohalaReewi

Recently I have noticed that when I thank someone for a post using the THANKS button, the thanks doesn't get registered. I am using the Firefox 2 browser however, if I fire up IE6, the thanks button works. It seems that this could be a problem with the Firefox browser or the website code used for the Thanks button. Has this been reported before?

gaming_guy

The thanks feature works for me and im using ff 2.0.1

JohalaReewi

Just clicked your THANKS button.
Did you get any?

(Doesn't look like it)

JohalaReewi

Just called up the page source in ff2

The thanks button is rendered as...

<a href="#" id="post_thanks_button_3981483" onclick="post_thanks_give_3981483(); return false;"> <img src="images/buttons/post_thanks.gif" alt="Thanks" border="0" /></a>

And the script for post_thanks_give_3981483() is...

function post_thanks_give_3981483()
!!
do_thanks_button = new vB_AJAX_Handler(true)
do_thanks_button.onreadystatechange(thanks_button_Done_3981483)
do_thanks_button.send('showthread.html?do=post_thanks_button_ajax&p=3981483')

do_thanks_add = new vB_AJAX_Handler(true)
do_thanks_add.onreadystatechange(thanks_add_Done_3981483)
do_thanks_add.send('showthread.html?do=post_thanks_add_ajax&p=3981483')
}

JohalaReewi

Hey. Just did it using ff2 on another PC at another location with a different ISP and it works! Must be something to do with firewalls, proxy servers or something like that which is blocking AJAX.


edit: Workround has been found.
Install the firefox NOSCRIPT add-on and use it to disable javascript for the moneysaving expert website. The THANKS button then reverts to the old fashioned way of doing thanks instead of the fancy Javascript/AJAX way.

edit2: This shows up another website bug. If you disable javascript and click on the SHOW ME... link, you get a 404 page not found error.