Known Bugs
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IE Version only.
- Enter key doesn't work to start a search.
- Tabbed browsing doesn't work in IE7 even if selected in preferences.
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We misspelled "millennium",
or did we?
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When selecting ligatures
in PDF files displayed in the Acrobat reader plugin and then dragging and dropping the selection
on the Scholar button, the ligature is replaced with a double-quote ". Instead of searching for
finance, Scholar searches for "nance.
This is likely due to incorrect handling of unicode characters by Acrobat Reader.
(Note that ligatures are copied correctly from, for instance, MS Word onto the Scholar button.)
Work-around: Manually adjust your search.
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On amazon.com, LibX puts a cue on
pages where the
Amazon ASIN item number resembles an ISBN.
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The autolinking functionality autolinks some entries that aren't actually
standard numbers. For instance, 2005-2006 is autolinked as an ISSN,
because it resembles one (and '6' is a correct checksum for 2005-200).
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The autolinking functionality doesn't work on all pages.
There are two possible reasons for that.
- The page is "complicated." This is true for GMail, for instance.
The page consists of highly dynamic JavaScript. In this case, LibX is
careful with what it rewrites in order to not break the application.
We figure it's better to not link an ISBN than break the user's use
of their email application.
- The page takes active countermeasures against autolinking.
Since the Google toolbar autolinks ISBNs to Amazon.com's page, several
book vendors employed countermeasures on their sites to prevent
such autolinking. LibX's autolinking respects those countermeasures.
However, in some cases, we placed cues instead of autolinking.
An example is powells.com, where we don't autolink, but have a cue instead.
If autolinking based on ISBN doesn't work, the simple work-around is to select
the ISBN by double-clicking, then right-click to find the ISBN-specific
context menu entries.
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When hovering over LibX's menu entries, the wrong tooltips are being displayed.
Specifically, it displays the tooltip of the elements that the user last hovered over.
This is a bug in Firefox
that has existed there for many years. Note that this bug also appears in Firefox's
own search engine menu. Although a fix is known, Firefox will not introduce that
fix until its FF 3.0 release.