by PCHeintz72 » Tue Oct 29, 2013 12:07 am
Ehhh... Don't see the issues myself...
On Favorites/Bookmarks:
I just made a favorite link of a FanFiction.NET story and was fine... But I also use Internet Explorer, not FireFox or Chrome. I dropped FireFox Back at 3.x when they broke the Bookmark Manager and it could not handle importing My Internet Explorer Favorites anymore and tended to crash constantly. That was not my only issue with it, but it was the one that finally made me drop it.
I cannot see how FanFiction.NET can be an issue when creating a favorite or bookmark, that is a function of the browser and should merely be copying whatever the current link in the link bar is. The only potential issue is if the story name or page name has unusual characters in it.
A potential reason it might not work for you is if you have too many bookmarks.
On FanFictionDownloader.NET:
FanFictionDownloader.NET was updated to v.0.8.3 just the other day to correct the breaking of it issue... I used it yesterday just fine.
On Copy/Paste/Selecting in FanFiction.NET:
Copy and paste of a chapter *does* work in Trident engine based browsers, such as Internet Explorer (I know as I was still fully able to do it even as of 2 days ago).
Initial tests I did when they made the change though indicate it is fully broke in Chrome and FireFox. Those browsers have script based workarounds available though from 3rd parties. No such script is needed for IE. Note I am referring to havin tested their HTML rendering engines, not the browsers... I refuse to install FireFox, and did not care for Chrome last I tested it as a potential backup browser... I tested the respective rendering engines using Avant, which allows for all three engines.
Note that selective text selection (like a paragraph) does not work in Trident engine based browsers either. This is not a issue for me, since I read offline.
Hope all that helps.
EDIT1: On the other hand, I really wish they would fix the RSS/ATOM feeds... that they are still partially down is extremely annoying, as I guarantee they would be receiving probably 100x the flak were it the email alert system instead.
EDIT2: On a whim, and just in case something changed.
- I rechecked copy/paste in IE, it still works fine as I described.
- I rechecked FanFictionDownloader.NET, v.0.8.3 is still working, so no further change or rebreaking has occurred.