{"id":16719,"date":"2016-03-09T16:24:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T15:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=16719"},"modified":"2016-03-09T16:24:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T15:24:56","slug":"scoop-its-new-posting-form-breaks-the-service-in-firefox-how-to-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2016\/03\/09\/scoop-its-new-posting-form-breaks-the-service-in-firefox-how-to-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Scoop.it&#8217;s new posting form breaks the service in Firefox &#8211; how to fix it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new update to the posting UI at Scoop.it has killed Scoop.it for me, in the Firefox Web browser. The new posting form just never loads in Firefox &mdash; and I have AdBlock and NoScript disabled at Scoop.it. The old Scoop.it browser bookmarklet has never worked for me in Firefox, so I can\u2019t use that either.<\/p>\n<p>In the Google Chrome browser, the Scoop.it post interface <em>does<\/em> appear, but the control graphics for it mysteriously fail to load, and there\u2019s no snippet of text from the article being shown either&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2016\/03\/nocontrols.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16720\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2016\/03\/nocontrols.jpg\" alt=\"nocontrols\" width=\"529\" height=\"244\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why do great Web services (Flickr, etc) feel compelled to ruin themselves by allowing idiot Web designers to mess around with what works and what people are familiar with, thus forcing many veteran users to look seriously at alternatives? If it isn\u2019t broken, don\u2019t fix it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s my functioning workaround for Firefox users who want to continue using Scoop.it:&mdash;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Install the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/browser-extensions\">AddThis addon<\/a> in Firefox, and set it to use a right-click option (otherwise it will clutter the screen with its additional bookmarks bar, <em>ugh<\/em>&#8230;) and than also set AddThis to reference Scoop.it.  You don&#8217;t have to give AddThis your log-on details at Scoop.it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> On right-clicking anywhere on a Web page you want to Scoop you can now select &#8220;Scoop.it&#8221;, thus&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2016\/03\/scoop.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16721\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2016\/03\/scoop.jpg\" alt=\"scoop\" width=\"529\" height=\"239\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16721\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong>  This will take you to a Scoop.it posting page that actually works in Firefox, <em>but<\/em> is cramped inside a phone\/tablet-sized box. So click the enlarge icon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2016\/03\/enlarge.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16722\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2016\/03\/enlarge.jpg\" alt=\"enlarge\" width=\"529\" height=\"827\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16722\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong>  A new window will then load, and the new Scoop.it posting interface will display fine in Firefox.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2016\/03\/window.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16723\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2016\/03\/window.jpg\" alt=\"window\" width=\"529\" height=\"403\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16723\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It does so with an URL of http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/bookmarklet?childWindow=1 &mdash; thus proving that it wasn&#8217;t my Web browser&#8217;s addons or blockers that were preventing the posting form from loading in a standard Firefox page.  Presumably the initial problem was down to the new posting UI&#8217;s interaction with other page elements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new update to the posting UI at Scoop.it has killed Scoop.it for me, in the Firefox Web browser. The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2016\/03\/09\/scoop-its-new-posting-form-breaks-the-service-in-firefox-how-to-fix-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jurn-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}