# I can't click on SDMB smilies.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-click-on-sdmb-smilies/628080
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**Created:** [July 13, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-click-on-sdmb-smilies/628080 "2012-07-13T02:34:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-click-on-sdmb-smilies/628080/1 "2012-07-13T02:34:21Z")
If clicking on a smilie doesn’t produce a smilie, what is screwed up on my PC?
I also can’t open the shipping tabs on Ebay.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2012, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-click-on-sdmb-smilies/628080/2 "2012-07-13T03:54:48Z")
Are you using any sort of script blocker in your browser? NoScript, AdBlock?
Try turning off your plugins/add-ons one at a time and see if you can figure out which is the culprit.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2012, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-click-on-sdmb-smilies/628080/3 "2012-07-13T11:42:48Z")
Thanks, I’ll try that when I’m awake. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2012, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-click-on-sdmb-smilies/628080/4 "2012-07-13T12:43:52Z")
If it’s not a plugin that you have consciously installed, it could be some sort of (malfunctioning) link hijacker or other browser exploit - probably worth running a malware scan, if **ZipperJJ** ’s suggestion doesn’t bear fruit.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-click-on-sdmb-smilies/628080/5 "2012-07-13T13:22:13Z")
Does one have to reboot when disabling an addon, or just restart Firefox?
It apparently isn’t Java, even though hovering over a tab on Ebay gives me the message
javascript:;
Ah well, I can use IE if I have to Ebay at work. :rolleyes:
The smilie pulldown works for the 'Dope. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-click-on-sdmb-smilies/628080/6 "2012-07-13T15:46:20Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> Does one have to reboot when disabling an addon, or just restart Firefox?
Just restarting FF should suffice.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2012, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-click-on-sdmb-smilies/628080/7 "2012-07-14T00:02:33Z")
Yes, as a first-most-likely-guess, I’ll second the suggestion that somebody is blocking JavaScript in your browser – perhaps as setting in your browser preferences, or perhaps an add-on.
As I’ve mentioned many times, I routinely run my browser with JavaScript disabled, which I see as giving many advantages. But it also breaks a lot of things (which I can mostly live without), and this includes all the smilies. It also breaks all the editing tools in that toolbar just above the text input box.
I’m satisfied to enter all my smilies and formatting by simply typing them in by hand. I keep a hand-written cheat-sheet handy. (So much for modern whiz-bang technology.) YMMV.
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### Author:  [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2012, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-click-on-sdmb-smilies/628080/8 "2012-07-14T12:24:28Z")
It definitely sounds like JavaScript, for whatever reason, is disabled. Try checking in your browser preferences to make sure that you have JS enabled. (If you’re using Firefox it’s under Options/Content).