My recent ebay.ca issue is not a "bidding" problem (like in the other ebay topic) but a more specific issue.

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My recent ebay.ca issue is not a "bidding" problem (like in the other ebay topic) but a more specific issue.

Unread post by Pallid Planetoid » 2023-05-23, 03:50

Web URL: ebay.ca
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What happens with Pale Moon (specific URL to issue included in attachment):
Pale Moon<br />Specific URL of webpage that fails to activate button: https://www.ebay.ca/rt/ReturnCreateView?transactionId=2460922009008&amp;itemId=184848570821
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Specific URL of webpage that fails to activate button: https://www.ebay.ca/rt/ReturnCreateView?transactionId=2460922009008&itemId=184848570821
What should happen:
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Timestamp: 5/22/2023 8:27:12 PM
Error: ReferenceError: event is not defined
Source File: https://ir.ebaystatic.com/rs/c/rtn-create-4X8t4dO3.js
Line: 661
I'm not certain this is directly related to the actual issue as there was a small delay before the error displayed. Also, as I recall, this issue has existed prior to the last update (FWIW).

I'm not aware of any other issues (as reported in the other ebay topic) that I've been having other than just this one specific issue.
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Re: My recent ebay.ca issue is not a "bidding" problem (like in the other ebay topic) but a more specific issue.

Unread post by FranklinDM » 2023-05-23, 04:25

Check if flipping the dom.window.event.enabled pref to true fixes the issue. We've recently gained global window.event support, but disabled by default and should help with sites that use this non-standard IE feature.

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Re: My recent ebay.ca issue is not a "bidding" problem (like in the other ebay topic) but a more specific issue.

Unread post by Pallid Planetoid » 2023-05-23, 07:21

Yes - toggling the pref to the non-default "true" most certainly did fix the problem. Thanks for the heads-up.... :thumbup: (nice to see this issue can so easily be addressed)

So then at this point the glaring question that remains (since the default for the pref is "false" presumably for a reason) :think: is - what potential issues can toggling this pref to the non-default value of "true" possibly cause?

I would presume there are potential draw-backs to setting the pref to a non-default value - otherwise, if no draw-backs, one would presume that a default setting of "true" would have been the more logical approach obviously (which is not the case).

I'll be leaving the pref set to "true" for the time being (while awaiting a reason why "true" is not the default value for this pref).... and thanks again!
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Re: My recent ebay.ca issue is not a "bidding" problem (like in the other ebay topic) but a more specific issue.

Unread post by FranklinDM » 2023-05-23, 10:52

Pallid Planetoid wrote:
2023-05-23, 07:21
... what potential issues can toggling this pref to the non-default value of "true" possibly cause?
There are a few sites that if they detect the presence of window.event, they expect that the corresponding values for the event.keyCode and event.charCode values will follow legacy IE/Chrome behavior. In our implementation, we chose not to port over the keyCode/charCode hacks since it does introduce a lot of unnecessary complexity for a deprecated, previously IE-only but eventually adopted to the web standards property. Firefox currently maintains a whitelist for sites where these hacks should be applied (see list below, as of writing) which we also don't have.
*.collabserv.com,*.gov.online.office365.us,*.officeapps-df.live.com,*.officeapps.live.com,*.online.office.de,*.partner.officewebapps.cn,*.scniris.com

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