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I can't add hyperlinks to my eBay listings, I have to go back to IE8 to do that, why please?

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I abandoned IE8 because there were too many popups slowing down the system to a crawl, none of the malware programs cured the problem, Firefox seems to be much better in that regard. But, I use eBay as a business, I like to add Hyperlinks to my listings so that my customers can navigate easily for more information. I can't do that with Firefox, because the links are inactive, I have to go back to IE8 to add the hyperlink, then go back to see if it has worked in the Firefox listing...and it has. So why can't I do that directly in Firefox?

I abandoned IE8 because there were too many popups slowing down the system to a crawl, none of the malware programs cured the problem, Firefox seems to be much better in that regard. But, I use eBay as a business, I like to add Hyperlinks to my listings so that my customers can navigate easily for more information. I can't do that with Firefox, because the links are inactive, I have to go back to IE8 to add the hyperlink, then go back to see if it has worked in the Firefox listing...and it has. So why can't I do that directly in Firefox?

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Does disabling Adblock for Ebay work, most adblockers block stuff like this. Also try safe mode and see if it works.

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Hi, thanks for your response. Disabling AdBlock doesn't cure the problem. Her is exactly what I mean: I have a listing on eBay, I want to add a URL hyperlink so that my customers can navigate to another source of information.

So I access a useful URL by copying it and pasting it to my eBay listing, it transfers OK, but is inactive to click on (no underlining etc).

If I do exactly the same thing in IE8, it transfers properly. Therefor I can construct a listing using FireFox in the normal way, but then have to quickly revert to IE8 to add the URL hyperlink. Just wondered why there is a difference between the two browsers. I don't want to go back to IE8 if I can help it :-(

Rgds Bob.