Problems with firefox under linux and geocaching.com

[+froldt]

I run Yoper linux (and have tried dadgum Small Linux), and use FireFox. In both linux flavors, I have been unable to do some things on geocaching.com

 

I cannot post a log to a cache. It tries and finally gives me some error message about being an empty page.

 

If I do a search, it will not let me go to the second page. It tries and tries and just won't let me. (I can't think of the error message that I get at this time.)

Simarily, if I look at someone's profile, I can't click on any of the tabs, to see what caches they've hidden, for example.

 

It appears (to my untrained eye), that this is an issue with javascript. I reinstalled Java today, and tested it out on the java.com test page. It said that it worked just fine...

 

Any suggestions?

[+alexrudd]

Java and JavaScript are completely different. Make sure JavaScript is enabled

Tools > Options > Content > Enable Javascript [x]

 

(another Linux user, yay!)

[+froldt]

Java and JavaScript are completely different. Make sure JavaScript is enabled

Tools > Options > Content > Enable Javascript [x]

 

(another Linux user, yay!)

 

Firefox 2.0.0.3

Mine's actualy under Edit>Preferences, but it has always been enabled, and thus no luck...

 

(What Linux are you using?)

[+Retcon]

Kubuntu here (Pretty much Debian with bells and whistles), currently on Edgy but have used pretty much every version since Breezy and I've never had any of these problems.

[+scotte]

Not that it really helps, but no problems here either, on 3 different linux systems. Ubuntu edgy, firefox 2...

[Edgemaster]

Sounds like an issue with having JavaScript disabled. Not Java.

[+Glenn]

I had the same problem with Yoper. Because if that issue and other oddities I've switched to Ubuntu. I've also found the users in the Ubuntu forums to be a lot more helpful than the ones in the Yoper forums.