reply & "choose a board" broken

[hyperbowler]

On a Mac, OSX 10.6.8 running Safari and Firefox, the reply buttons to threads don't work. The reply links instead say "Go to # on this page."

[Engineering]

The behavior you're describing indicates that the Javascript is not running for you. Do you have Javascript disabled in those browsers? The fact that it's failing in both seems odd.

[hyperbowler]

Thanks for the java tip... I was able to solve it by reinstalling Safari and running Disk Utility's "repair permissions"

[hyperbowler]

It stopped working again an hour or so after my last reply. I reinstalled Java, upgraded to Lion, and still no difference in Safari and Firefox. Everything works fine in Chrome though.

[Engineering]

Javascript and Java are actually separate entities, apologies for the confusion. I'm not sure why running the disk utility worked last time; but perhaps re-installing Safari reset that browser's Javascript settings. Was anything altered between reinstallation and the return of the problem?

[hyperbowler]

Crazy. I finally found this solution:

"Try changing your DNS:
System Preferences> Network> Advanced> DNS
Under DNS Servers click the + and add these two separately:
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
"

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/...

[Engineering]

I'm a bit baffled as to why the DNS was causing the issue, but if that fixed it then all the better. Sorry we weren't more help.

[hyperbowler]

It broke again, but I figured out the problem. I use a proxy server to connect to my work. For some reason, when the proxy server is on, javascript barfs. When I toggle it off, I can use Chowhound without a problem. I'll contact our sysadmin.