WordPress.com/Preview Post Not Functioning

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  schnikism · Member · Aug 11, 2011 at 6:50 pm

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  WordPress.com “Preview Post” issue.

  When I compose a post and select save draft, I usually want to preview it before I post it. Smart, right?

  It would be, except for the last week or so, the preview hasn’t been working. It keeps throwing the following error…

  http://schnikism.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/error.jpg

  Has anyone else had this issue? Is there something that I’m not doing? Please help! :)

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  airodyssey · Member · Aug 11, 2011 at 10:37 pm

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  Hi. Have you tried any of the tips here?
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/

  If not, could you please specify which browser name and version you use?

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  schnikism · Member · Aug 11, 2011 at 11:02 pm

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  I have refreshed and cleared the cache. Still “not found.” I’m in Firefox 5.

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  airodyssey · Member · Aug 11, 2011 at 11:13 pm

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  Thank you. There is a known bug with Firefox that involves mapped domains like yours. More information and workaround here:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-am-unable-to-see-the-previews-of-the-posts-unless-i-publish-them?replies=14

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  schnikism · Member · Aug 11, 2011 at 11:24 pm

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  Hey! Thanks for your help!! :)

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  airodyssey · Member · Aug 11, 2011 at 11:29 pm

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  Glad I could help :-)

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  harpingjanet · Member · Aug 12, 2011 at 1:23 am

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  I am having a similar problem. I’m using Safari and Mac OS X.6.8. The first time I want to either save or preview a post it will work. The second time and thereafter, I click on save and nothing happens but the little dial icon going around and around. Same thing when I hit preview.
  So my post changes are not saved. I have to copy the post, go to All Posts, find the draft and click edit, and then paste the updated post in. Once I do that, I can preview it one more time before starting the process again.
  I have cleared the cache on the browser.
  I can live without previews but the not saving is a real problem.
  This started happening when I started getting the post-publish page about how many posts, how many words, etc.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Aug 19, 2011 at 8:47 am

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  This is definitely a Webkit bug, affecting both Safari and Chrome, so we’ll have to wait for them to fix it. There’s nothing that we can do on this end.

  https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28633