Can't edit my post on the forum

I just created my first post: https://www.tvmaze.com/threads/4695/should-we-use-the-native-title-or-its-romanized-transcription-for-non-latin-titles The rendering is ugly, but the "edit" button does no seem to work, so I can't fix it. Here is the relevant part of the HTML: 1 | The "edit" button doesn't seem to be wired to any form or action. Is this a bug, or a limitation because I'm a new user? Regards, - Sylvain

hmm, usually you should be able to edit your post, maybe it is not working because it is the first post in the thread, but one of our tech guys can answer this better :)

Thanks for the reply Juan. I wonder if I can edit *this* message ...

just try it :)

... no. Same issue: clicking on the "edit" button in a reply doesn't seem to have any effect.

I think @gazza911 or @tnt might be able to help :)

There's no reason it shouldn't work when you're able to post.

Sounds like a bug (but not one I'm recieving).

From this message, I realize now I should see a WYSIWYG editor. But only a plain textarea is displayed in my browser.

I didn't mention I use Firefox 60.7.0esr on Linux Debian if that matters.

Is that a typo or are you really using a Firefox version that's 3 years old? If so, try upgrading it - most libraries we use only support the last few versions of evergreen browsers.

No, its not a typo;)

Per policy, we only have access to the packages in the Debian Stable repository and we are running the Extended Support Release version of Firefox.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/choosing-firefox-update-channel

Maybe you should consider a fallback solution for people at work, university or whatever else that can't update their browser to the latest version.

Do you mean oldstable perhaps? According to https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firefox&searchon=names&suite=stable&section=all, stable is on 78.10.

If you're not able to update your browser to a more recent version, I'm afraid I won't be able to help you. If one of the many libraries we depend on doesn't support an outdated version anymore, attempting to change that ourselves would cost waaay more time than we have available.

If you're not able to update your browser to a more recent version, I'm afraid I won't be able to help you.

Actually, I can enter directly HTML in the textarea, just like I do it right now. So if we had a working edit button I wouldn't even have complained! Nevertheless, I will check with our sysadmin why FF wasn't updated

@Sylvain wrote:
Actually, I can enter directly HTML in the textarea, just like I do it right now. So if we had a working edit button I wouldn't even have complained! Nevertheless, I will check with our sysadmin why FF wasn't updated

Ha, hardcore! :-)

The edit button is not a regular link but an inline/AJAX edit function, which is why it's tightly coupled with the text editor.

@david wrote:
Ha, hardcore! :-)

:D

The edit button is not a regular link but an inline/AJAX edit function, which is why it's tightly coupled with the text editor.

Yes, that's how I understood it by looking at the page source.
Anyway, for the record, updating to Firefox 78.10.0esr fixed the issue. Thanks for your time!

Ha, that's a happy ending :) Cheers!