257451 - ebay.com - when listing a item cannot use advanced editor "enter description"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Bob]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

A few months ago Ebay added a new funtion to the "Sell your item" screen.  When
using IE the new funtion appears on "item description".  Essentially it is a
rudimentary word processor but it is still much better than the old way of
having to type all the html tags.  This new function is not shown by Firefox,
only the old clumsy was of entering item descriptions.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Sell item at online Auction
2. Enter any categories and/or sub categories.
3. On the "Sell Your Item: Describe Your Item" page scroll down to where the
item description is entered.
4. Do the above steps on IE and you will see the difference.

Actual Results:  
Functions are missing but IE displays them.

Expected Results:  
All functions should be displayed.

Comment 1

[Bob]

I received a message about this problem but I don't know what I am supposed to do.

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** Bug 264823 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** Bug 280785 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan]

See bug 264823 comment 1 for a work around. Marking new based on dupes.

Comment 5

[OstGote!]

*** Bug 294213 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Bob]

5/19/05 - Problem still exists - [e-mail].

Comment 7

[pilotwings119]

I dont understand how this works... is it going to get fixed?

Comment 8

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> I dont understand how this works... is it going to get fixed?
> 

See <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/>. It will get it fixed, if you and others who care about using Firefox help convince eBay to fix it.

Comment 9

[pilotwings119]

I don't have a clue how to help, and eBay wouldn't give a **** about what we think and would never change their site. Can't someone just make an effin plugin?

Comment 10

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

(In reply to comment #9)

They care if enough people complain and it costs them $. Try and see what happens.

Comment 11

[Bob]

I downloaded and installed the new version of Firefox.  This problem is still not fixed.  This has been open for 15 months now.  Guess it's not a high priority?

Comment 12

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 352771 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Is this still an issue ?

Comment 14

[Bob]

Ok to close this problem after four and half years.

Comment 15

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

marking fixed, thanks for the response after 4.5 years :-)