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Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com

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Robert Heller wrote:
> At Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:59:15 +0100 The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> Bryce wrote:
>>> I'm using up-to-date Debian Sid. Iceweasel reverts to text 
>>> mode when browsing cnet.com. It's been that way for a long 
>>> time. Iceweasel works fine for all other sites. Konqueror 
>>> shows the graphical version of cnet.com.
>>>
>>> Does Iceweasel work on cnet for you?
>>
>> Dunno, but firefox is fine on Debian.
>> Only time sites revert to 'text mode' is when one of the links - usually 
>> to a style sheet,  or a javascript source - are down.
>>
>> There is no 'text mode' for HTML anyway that I know of. Or  rather its 
>> all text mode, with pictures and styles being added. If the pictures and 
>> styles are gone, that's probably because the styles and images cant be 
>> found.
> 
> One possiblity is internet access issues.  This 'non-graphical'
> business occurs to me all of the time (I use FF under CentOS), but
> mainly because I am on a dialup connection and just don't have to the
> bandwidth to download everything.  FF (stupidly!) assumes there is
> plenty of bandwidth to open *several* connections and concurrently
> download the HTML, stylesheets, JavaScipt, and images (and do several
> DNS lookups at the same time).  Sometimes what happens is some of these
> connections (often the DNS lookups) timeout and fail, causing one or
> more connections to be silently dropped, causing things like
> stylesheets, JavaScipt, or images to just not be loaded.  Sometimes it
> take several reloads to get everything loaded (previously loaded stuff
> lands in the cache and is not refetched).
> 
>>                                                                                                      
> 
yep. Thats the sort of patterns I see..though not from bandwidth 
problems locally. More from sites/links down/congested elsewhere.


I wish people would NOT litter their sites with bits and pieces from 
other sites..

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Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com Bryce <none@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-08 08:31 -0400
  Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-08 13:59 +0100
    Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-04-08 08:31 -0500
      Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-08 14:37 +0100
        Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-04-08 10:15 -0500
          Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com Thomas Keusch <fwd+usenet-spam2011q2@spam2011q2.bsd-solutions-duesseldorf.de> - 2011-04-08 16:18 +0000
            Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-04-08 11:50 -0500
              Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com Thomas Keusch <fwd+usenet-spam2011q1@spam2011q1.bsd-solutions-duesseldorf.de> - 2011-04-08 21:35 +0000
    Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-04-29 13:05 +0000
      Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2011-04-29 22:49 +0000
  Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com jellybean stonerfish <stonerfish@geocities.com> - 2011-04-08 14:06 +0000
  Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com notbob <notbob@notbob.invalid> - 2011-04-08 15:27 +0000
    Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com Bryce <none@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-08 20:08 -0400

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