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This is super geeky.

But if I’ve been having this problem this long I have to believe there are others. For the last two months, I’ve been completely unable to browse the magentocommerce.com website in Firefox – major pain, considering I’ve been working on two magento projects. Every time I visited I would get a “400 Bad Request” error.

I tried turning off all my Firefox add-ons – to no avail. Finally figured it out. It was a bad cookie that somehow the site had stored on my machine.

I used the Web Developer Toolbar to clear out all the site cookies for magentocommerce.com and that did the trick. Hope this helps someone else from pulling all their hair out.

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i’ve been up and down with magento, or as i like to call it, magneto.. for a while now. I used it on a side project shopping cart and now i won’t use it again. People have issues ordering all the time, it was an intricate nightmare to customize and skin (or de-skin) seeing as i stripped out all kinds of features.. it’s just too overcomplicated for what it’s worth in most cases. It seems like such a wonderful product being free and all, but now im just ready to move on to something I can better rely on. I wish it wasn’t the case because I’ve been a huge follower since the 0.6x days and was waiting for the perfect project to implement it on, but the time it took me to finish that cart and still have issues, i could have done two or three with another and just paid a license fee. *shrug*

Jim Carter added these pithy words on May 12 09 at 11:56 am

Interesting. I have to say its the best platform I’ve worked on. There is definitely a learning curve and the documentation is about 70% of what it should be. Mainly the “getting started” stuff. Just no easy way to learn where files should go to be out of the way of magento core code without learning it the hard way. But from my experience it is quite solid and has the best plan for growth of any that I’ve researched/used. One thing I found is that we were having a lot of complaints from IE6 users and I had to change some of the defaults as far as session validation checking is concerned. Once I did that, we’ve had pretty flawless performance.

jay added these pithy words on May 12 09 at 1:12 pm

I had those IE problems too but must have done something wrong because I couldn’t squash them. We kept getting order complaints. It’s hard to mess up with a simple sync to paypal express these days.

It’s built on Zend and is very stable by nature, but kept crashing when I’d try to move dev-environments or upgrade. Normally I love-me-some-Zend framework sites, but in the end I just found it way too bloated and got pretty frustrated. probably because I didn’t need it for a mammoth of a corporation’s shopping cart that could utilize the scale you could grow it to, but I guess that’s my point too is not every project needs that kind of beast. Once I had a production site running I was surprised how difficult it was for non-techie people to administer the app (work with products, options & so on). The order fulfillment is quite a process in itself too, I think you just need to have the right fit for that cart with the right client/company who can use it how it’s meant.

I’m really glad to hear its working well for you tho Jay, I think I just had too many stumbling blocks along the way.

Jim Carter added these pithy words on May 20 09 at 1:14 am