OT: EBay UK search hanging

From: Stan Barr <stanb_at_dial.pipex.com>
Date: Thu Jun 17 13:07:16 2004

Hi,

Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk> said:

>
> Knowing that there's a few EBay users on the list who also know how to
> fix modern software... :-)
>
> On the rare occasions that I do actually bother to search EBay for
> anything classic computer related I quite often find that hitting the
> search submit button just hangs, with the browser (Opera under Linux in
> my case) sitting there saying "Waiting for DNS confirmation of cookie
> domain(s)".

[snip]

> Presumably others might be able to shed some light on this, or at least
> confim / deny that they've seen similar problems with EBay UK from
> different platforms and browsers...

I use Opera and Linux and I've not noted this particular problem.

It does sometimes hang when fetching pics from thumbs.ebaystatic.com.
Stopping the download displays the page minus the thumbnails, so all
is not lost.

No problems noted with iCab on MacOs 8.6.

-- 
Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb_at_dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Received on Thu Jun 17 2004 - 13:07:16 BST

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