Having issues clicking buttons on the apple and adobe webpage

In that case, reinstall as indicated above.

Hi sKzS,

I have the exact same problem.

Apple has recently introduced new javascripting on their main site, something to do with touch and detecting click-events I presume, but it breaks for wacom tablet users. So no links are working.

If you disable javascript in safari, the site will look a bit weird, but the links will work.

The javascript is not present when you are on the sub-apple-sites such as discussions.apple.com and store.apple.com

For the moment, apple only uses this on their main site www.apple.com

I have already reported this, but maybe you could also report the problem.

Reinstalling anything will not help at all, the problem is in the website's coding.

The reason why I suspect the wacom is the problem is when you open the safari inspector and go to the error log, you will see an error message stating that it failed to load some resource from metrics.apple.com

The complete url is a var string that mentions "wacom" somewhere.

I know it is not a network problem on my side because I have 3 mac's connecting to the same router, and only the one with a wacom has trouble clicking the apple links on the main site.

The apple site is the only site I'm having problems with, adobe seems to work fine for me.

I'll see if I can find anything else, this is a frustrating issue... and we both have a wacom in common so it does point in that direction... but maybe I'm mistaken...

I had typed a complete reply, but it just vanished...

I'll see if I can find anything more, but for me it is leading to the wacom, and as you also have a wacom we have that in common.

The adobe site just works fine for me though...

yes, which only proves my point, that it is related to javascript on the apple website, not anything we have installed on our system.

Also, when you simply disable javascript in safari, the links work fine, no need to set the user agent to anything else.

I have the same problem - none of the links on the Apple site work when clicked. I don't use Wacom. Running Safari 6.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.8.2

You can get the links to work if you right-click them and select "Open Link in New Tab" but you end up with a load of open tabs.

Ok, I guess that rules out the wacom then.

I have done some further investigating.

I'm using a combination of ad-blocking/privacy extensions in safari : adblock, ghostery and incognito

and this hosts file in my system : http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

Disabling the extensions doesn't fix the apple links, but I suspect something in my hosts file is blocking some tracking code in use on the main apple site.

On my other mac, I don't use this hosts file, and here the apple links work just fine.

If I see how frustrating the internet looks without those extensions and hosts file, I'd rather live with the annoyance of not being able to surf the apple website.

my suspicion was correct.

I commented out a line in the hosts file mentioned in my reply above, and now the apple links work as normal.

I would look in that direction, if you have some ad blocking privacy rules in place (either extensions, plugins, hosts file or firewall)

I have a large hosts file which cuts out most advertising boxes when viewing sites. I'm not going to stop using it so will live with the Apple page links not working.