Any computer boffs on?

david1976

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I have been having problems with firefox recently in that on some pages it will not open a link in a new tab or the current tab.

An example is the petplan website which I have just tried to use to get an insurance quote for my dog.

The page the link is on is:

http://www.petplan.co.uk/insurance/needquote.asp

and it's the get quote button.

When I click it, nothing happens and if I try holding CTRL and pressing the link, a new tab opens with javascript:go(); in the address bar.

It is the same with the guntrader website if I try and open a photograph of a gun.

Any ideas much appreciated

cheers

david
 
Which version of Firefox are you running and have you enabled Javascript?

I'm running version 3.0 with javascript enabled and it appears to work...

Looking at the page, the get quote button is actually a link, except that the link address is actually a line of javascript which is supposed to then open up a different window depending on which animal you've picked. What's happening for you is that the javascript is not executing, it's actually just trying to open the link as is.

I'm not a javascript expert, but I'm guessing that this is a hack that works in IE, but not in older versions of Firefox and a later version may handle this hack 'correctly'... AFAIK you're not supposed to have executable javascript where a link is supposed to be, there should be a 'proper' way of doing it.
 
If you have explorer installed you could try using that instead!

I had a similar problem, but the other way round - it wouldn't open in Explorer so I switched to FireFox and ... hey presto! worked first time!

Computer says no! ....... cough :lol:
 
updating your browser should work but first clear out your temp files, cookies etc because left over temps can mess with settings which is quicker that updating!
 
hi....yes my thoughs are the pop up blocker may be stopping it, go into tools/options/content and untick the block popups tab...restart and enter the address you have and see if it works. if it does add it to the allow site part of the popup options....hope that makes sense...

ATB
 
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