Re: Lynx and amazon.com...was lynx and cookies.

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Karen Lewellen wrote:
If you are having a problem with amazon and lynx, please do the following.
call here:
1-800-201-7575
This is amazon's toll free number.
I have already spoken with tech support, and they realize the problem, but need to know that others are encountering it, and most importantly that a few months back systems worked fine.



Hi,

I'm referring here to Lynx the cat. I must say that I've had problems with amazon.com/access for a lot longer than a few months. I don't remember how long but I would say a year. Specifically, the editorial reviews don't work. When that happened, I just gave up on the regular Amazon site with Lynx. Now I use a graphical browser and I suggest that others do the same. I still use Lynx for 90% of my browsing needs but the fact is that Amazon and many other sites will continue to break on text browsers. Another site that has this problem is newegg.com. I end up in an endless refresh loop with Lynx. Specifically, I'm told to refresh the page because I'm seeing a message that my browser isn't supported but that just reloads the same page with the same refresh. I'm not sure if it's because of Javascript or not but I'm thinking not. In the past few days, Google changed their cookie they issue for searches and I get an error about it every time I use the Linux search with Lynx. That never used to happen. Even sf.net was giving me problems with Lynx off and on but that seems to be fixed for the moment. Going back to the editorial reviews on Amazon Access, I just get a blank page when I try to read them. Other parts of the access site work fine. Honestly, it isn't worth me calling their phone number when I can use Firefox under Windows as I've been doing. In the case of SourceForge, I just use rsync which works faster anyway. In the case of PayPal, newegg.com and other shopping sites, I use Firefox. For those of you not running Windows, I don't know what to suggest except maybe edbrowse which claims to have full Javascript support.

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