Chuckslist ajax problems in Firefox 3

[Chris Lamothe]

Hi,

First let me say how happy I am to see this project. I looked for
something similar in March 08 and was surprised to find nothing decent
out there. Your product looks great and I can't wait to use it more.

Now for my question/observation. I've noticed that some issues with
the ajax used by Chuckslist when using Firefox as a browser.

For example, if I'm at http://localhost:3000/ads/post and try to click
on any of the parent categories (e.g. community) then absolutely
nothing happens.

Trying the same in Safari brings me to the "Please choose a category:
community »" screen.

I've tried the same on the demo site ( http://demo.chuckslist.org/ )
and had the same result.

If I check my Firefox error console it doesn't display any error. The
onclick event for the URL is:

onclick="new Ajax.Request('/ads/select_category/7',
{asynchronous:true, evalScripts:true, parameters:'authenticity_token='
+ encodeURIComponent('32e7a2352f950e3a8a324579390c10a03afbb490')});
return false;"

Am I the only one having this problem (have tested on two different
computers albeit with identical setups of OSX 10.5.4 running Firefox
3.0.1)

Cheers,

Chris

[Chris Lamothe]

I figured out the cause of the issue:

The Firefox add-on Adblock Plus has a default URL filter that blocks anything with /ads/* in it, such as http://demo.chuckslist.org/ads/select_category/7

Of course, this will impact a minority of users, so I don't know if renaming the Ads table is a viable solution, but it's definitely something worth knowing about.

Cheers!

Christopher Lamothe

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