Daniel wrote:
Bo1953 wrote on 27/06/2018 9:53 AM:
bo1953 wrote on 24/06/2018 3:26 AM:
Hello all,
In trying to list items on ebay I have a few issues which I
have yet to be able to resolve and hope someone here can
assist.
1) when linking to photos to be uploaded, all are blacked
out, after uploading, still blacked out no idea as what is
causing this to happen, can see photos clearly and correctly
in File Explorer (can complete in Chrome); and
2) When uploading photos, in SM the system is stuck in a loop
and will not upload in basic tool template...
Even when using Default User Agent, the issues are similar.
Suggestions or ideas as to what can be done to solve this?
TIA - bo1953
Thank you again, it does not work now, it did work about 90 days ago
when I last listed on eBay.
I do not know what could have happened to uncover this issue.
A few possibilities:
- You upgraded your browser
- You changed some option (possibly to fix an issue with a different site)
- There's something different about those photos than ones you've
successfully uploaded before (larger, different camera, edited with
different software, saved with different options, etc.)
- Ebay changed something about their site (next in line if none of the
above are true)
- Updates to Windows, Antivirus software, ad-blocker blacklists, or
something else not obviously related (probably unlikely, but you never
know...)
- Various other possibilities which don't occur to me off the top of my head
thank you again for your input and assistance.
bo1953
O.K., what to try now?? I see from your User Agent, you have enabled the
"Advertise FireFox Compatibility" at Edit->Preferences->Advanced->HTTP
Networking in the "User Agent String".
It might also be worth trying to disable that option. I've come across a
few sites (mainly Google, but there may be others) which break with
SeaMonkey set to "Advertise Firefox compatibility" but work with it
disabled (so that Firefox doesn't appear in the user-agent string).
If you have the Lightning extension installed, also disable "Advertise
Lightning installation" on the same page. I've had that cause problems
before as well.
This adds the FF version to the
User Agent String so that yours now shows as ....
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.3
I believe some sites just want the "Firefox/52.0" bit (i.e. no mention
what-so-ever of SM), or want the FF version to be that last bit of the
UA String. And some sites are rejecting the "Firefox/52.0" bit in any
case, because FF 52 is getting old. I think SM 2.49.3 is based, sort of,
on FF 54 or 55.
I think Firefox 52 is correct for SeaMonkey 2.49.x
I know that it is possible to add a line to your Prefs so that you can
have a UA which is only sent to, in your case, ebay.com, but I don't
know how to do that or what its content should be, maybe same as your
current UA but make it, say, "Firefox/60" or something.
The preference would be, for example:
general.useragent.override.ebay.com
and set to the full user-agent string which would need to be used, e.g.:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
(yes, the same as with "Advertise Firefox compatibility" enabled but
without the "Seamonkey/*" part).
However, a few points with doing that:
- Ebay might block you from doing certain things as it looks like you're
using an outdated version of Firefox.
- However, that's the Firefox version that your version of SeaMonkey is
based on, so if you set it to a newer version they might try using
features not supported in your version of SeaMonkey (so other things
might break).
- You'll need to manually update that preference every time you update
SeaMonkey, if you want to be presenting the correct Firefox version.
- You might also need to set overrides for other domains they load
content from (e.g. ebaystatic.com), but working out what those are can
be tricky.
Just as I type
this, I recall you used to be able to add prefs to SeaMonkey (or was it
Mozilla Suite or Netscape Suite) by creating a Plain Text file called
User.js (in the same location as your prefs.js file) using a plain text
editor like NotePad or WordPad, but I'm not at all sure if this is still
possible in SeaMonkey!
I'm pretty sure setting preferences that way has been mentioned on these
newsgroups relatively recently, so probably still supported. I don't do
it that way myself though (I just set preferences via about:config), so
can't say for certain.
--
Mark.
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