Ok. I think I get it now.
Those promote buttons and the little link images on the individual item images are supposed to copy the promotion campaign URLs to the clipboard (for pasting in social media posts or whatever to earn swag and loot?)
It doesn't work in Firefox 3.6.24 (not a surprise), Opera 36 (maybe not a surprise), Firefox 31 (maybe expected), or Firefox 52 (not expected at all).
Have you checked your clipboard contents to see if it actually is working for you? (Click the button, open a new tab, and paste the clipboard contents in the address bar to check if it really did work).
I don't see any good workaround either. I can see the targets you would need by viewing the page in Firebug and can see what needs to be presented, but see no easy way to kludge around it.
I could make a simple bookmarklet that would surface a single link as a pop up alert when the bookmarklet is clicked - the content of the alert could then be copied to the clipboard - but as there are dozens of links there, that doesn't work and not realistic to code a full JavaScript replacement for what I assume is broken eBay button handler code as a bookmarklet. Besides that getting into territory beyond my skilz, getting content onto the clipboard via add on JavaScript is a difficult or near impossible task, once again beyond my skill level.
I *think* I could create a bookmarklet that could grab ALL the campaign links from the page for visible buttons and visible items, and dump them as a list on a blank new tab in the browser, but that would be a list with few or no references to what item or button they refer - they would be in top to bottom order, and pretty obvious from the text in the URL, but not sure if that would be enough, or if the whole approach would be helpful at all.
*MIGHT* be possible to create a bookmarklet that when clicked once on the page would append a visible, clickable version of the campaign URLS to each object (each button, each thumbnail, etc), that could be right clicked and that link copied to the clipboard, but although obtaining the array of URLS is fairly trivial, attaching them to the objects in a way that leaves the page readable is not trivial. But might be doable.
[While finishing up this post and ruminating on the problem it occurred to me that a bookmarklet could be created that modified all those buttons and link icons in such a way that they become clickable links which could be copied to the clipboard with a right click/copy link location sequence. You wouldn't click the buttons or the link icons any more - instead, you would click the bookmarklet once the page loads, it would modify the buttons and links, and then perform a right click/save link location any on any buttons or icons for things you want to promote.]
Let's get some input from a good, methodical tester who is running current versions of Firefox and some other browsers.
@eburtonlab can you take a look at that link that OP posted and see if any of the "Promote event" buttons of the link icons copy long campaign URLs to your clipboard when clicked?
For example, if I understand what is supposed to happen correctly, when the "Promote Event" button above the "Today's Deals" filmstrip gallery is clicked it should copy a long URL to promote a campaign for that to the clipboard that looks like this:
http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_id=114&ipn=icep&toolid=11300
&campid=5338470651&customid=&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fdeals.ebay.com
If I am not totally missing the boat on what is supposed to be happening here, and eburtonlab confirms the failure, I think it would be time to call in eBay as it would then be a bonafied bug.
