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Why do the voting stars not appear under Firefox or Chrome, but they do appear under IE?
Some time ago, I got into the habit of using Firefox to use Instructables.com because the layout worked better there than in IE. I went away from the site for awhile, then came back, and I thought you had gotten rid of the 5-star voting system. Then I viewed the page in IE while logged in, and I discovered that the stars are there.
The attached image shows screenshots of the same URL (https://www.instructables.com/id/Grip-grip/) viewed in three different browsers.
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Best Answer 7 years ago
It's a BUG that the staff is aware of and is currently trying to resolve.
https://www.instructables.com/community/Rating-stars-often-load-incorrectly/
7 years ago
I've found a few work-arounds but none of them are 100% reliable. Here are the 3 of them:
- Reload the page. That works... occasionally.
- Click on the authors username, then from their list of ibles, choose the one you'd like to rate and open it. The rating system will often magically appear.
- I also tried disabling the "View all steps on one page" feature. That has worked when the above steps didn't, but I'm unsure if this work-around is foolproof.
I know this doesn't answer your question, but hopefully one of the back doors will help until this persistent bug gets exterminated. ;-)7 years ago
You can try updating your Java to the latest one. It doesn't always update and you need the new version for things to work correctly.
7 years ago
Make sure your copies of Firefox and Chrome are up to date. I'm having no problem viewing the starts in any browser. I use Chrome as my primary browser.