No links at Dogpile

pand · Post by **pand** » June 8th, 2003, 6:13 pm

I did a search at Dogpile using this build and while there are plenty of entries returned there are no clickable links. I've been using Firebird/Phoenix for quite awhile now, but this is the first time I've done a search at Dogpile. Netscape and IE return the links.

pand · Post by **pand** » June 8th, 2003, 6:15 pm

Sorry this was supposed to be in the 6/08 builds section.

Post by **alanjstr** » June 8th, 2003, 6:35 pm

Can you supply a specific URL? Did you go to their homepage and search, or use the MyCroft plugin?

pand · Post by **pand** » June 8th, 2003, 6:52 pm

www.dogpile.com. I just went to the home page and did the search. No plugin.

Post by **alanjstr** » June 8th, 2003, 7:20 pm

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030529 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Please do Help -> About and paste your string here.

pand · Post by **pand** » June 8th, 2003, 7:33 pm

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030608 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

I decided to test it with my prior version - 6/01. Same problem.

Post by **alanjstr** » June 8th, 2003, 7:38 pm

Have you done anything to modify your browser like create a userContent.css?

Have you tried with a new profile?

CyberSlug · Post by **CyberSlug** » June 8th, 2003, 7:55 pm

I think alanjstr is on the right track. I'm using the Adblocking css file by Neil Jenkins, and get a "Connection Failure Error" when I click any of the search results links at Dogpile.com

I think the problem is due to the fact that each link is prefixed by <b>http://clickit.go2net.com/search?site=srch&cid=</b>....

Edit/Addendum:

Have you ever modified your <a href="http://eagles.chatserve.com/hosts.html">Hosts file</a>, or have you Kazaa installed?

I have a modified (ad-blocking) hosts file that redirects clickit.go2net.com to 127.0.0.1, so the dogpile links will not work under *any* browser on my computer. (You might try to <a href="http://www.utmb.edu/oto/HowTo.dir/linksys/Command-Prompt.htm">ping</a> the site and see what response you get.)

pand · Post by **pand** » June 8th, 2003, 11:00 pm

Yep, the problem was with ad-blocking code in the userContent.css file. I had added that some time ago from tips at texturizer.net and had forgotten it was there. I tweaked it for "clickit.go2net.com...."etc. Works fine now. And, yes I have modified the Hosts file on another computer, so I suppose it will not work there either.

That's ok.. don't think I like dogpile anyway.

Thanks a lot guys for the help.

davebug · Post by **davebug** » June 9th, 2003, 3:55 pm

I had the same trouble with the summarized critic reviews on movies on Rottentomatoes.

You can just remove the [href*="/click"] part of the property set and it will work fine, though.

neilj · Post by **neilj** » June 10th, 2003, 8:47 am

Just thought I'd tell you that I've fixed the problem in my userContent.css so if you haven't fixed it yourself and you want to update (it also contains a load more rules compared to the one currently at Mozilla Firebird Help) you can find it <a href="http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=11545&start=55">here</a>.

Cheers,

Neil

Post by **alanjstr** » June 10th, 2003, 8:55 am

Is it time to update Firebird Help? If so, please tell djst.

neilj · Post by **neilj** » June 10th, 2003, 12:48 pm

I've already done that and its been updated by djst.

Now I've just got to somehow persuade all those people who are using old versions to update...

No links at Dogpile

No links at Dogpile

Oops

Rotten Tomatoes, also...