18 Feb
Posted by: Brandon Harper in: Culture, Firefox, Tips, Hacks, & Tricks, Tools
It seems like for at least a couple of years now, I've had problems when trying to login to newegg.com with Firefox. Across different installs of Firefox, on Windows, OS X, and Linux, etc.. no matter what I tried, Firefox just didn't work at all. Today after my typical google search session, I did find a couple of solutions which took quite awhile to track down. If you're having problems logging into to Newegg, give these a try:
Easy solution:
In the address bar of Firefox, type:
Search or scroll down to the section called "network.http.sendRefererHeader" and change this value to 1.
For some reason, this was set to 2 on my machine.
Annoying solution:
Something is probably corrupt in your Firefox profile. Given that you're the type of person who shops at newegg, AND uses firefox, you can probably figure out how to create a new profile on your own.
Anyhow, give those a try and see if they work. It's nice to be able to shop on Newegg again with Firefox!
6 Responses
kmurray
04|Mar|2008 1Thanks for the tip.
I was having no luck with newegg, and yes, it was because I had set the referrer to 0 (no referrer data is sent).
Anyway, all fixed now
Brandon Harper
04|Mar|2008 2No problem! It drove me crazy for months and figured some other people out there would also find it useful.
Dan
19|Mar|2008 3You are the AWESOMEST person ever. I am eternally grateful.
Brandon Harper
19|Mar|2008 4No problem Dan-- glad I could help.
Sauce
20|Apr|2008 5WOW i will NEVER know why or how that value was changed.. but it worked like a charm! thank you sir!
bill joe
27|Apr|2008 6thanks so much I was getting really annoyed with that
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