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Re: why won't ff look at this url?

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On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 01:10:36PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 24 August 2019 12:43:39 Tixy wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 12:22 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Saturday 24 August 2019 10:33:20 Tixy wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 10:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > >
> > > https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-a
> > >
> > > > >rrested-accused-of-missing-and-tampering-with-narcotics
> > > > >
> > > > > All I get for clicking on it is a blank screen.
> > > >
> > > > Looks like abcnews4.com does everything with javascript. You got
> > >
> > > that
> > >
> > > > disabled or blocked with a plugin?
> > >
> > > IDK, how do I check?
> >
> > Well, you'd know if you'd installed a specific plugin like NoScript,
> 
> Stuff like noscript is installed but all that is disabled

Noscript might have become active again if you updated to 
Debian 10 buster recently.  

I installed noscript many years ago and tried it out but I guess back 
then it felt a little annoying to have to explicitly allow all the 
various pages so I allowed javascript by default.  (i.e. noscript stayed 
installed but wasn't doing anything.)  A few weeks ago I finally 
updated to buster and I noticed that it had gone back to blocking 
javascript by default.  Since then I've been trying the block-by-default 
setup and I like it so I've kept it like that.

So with noscript active, when I try the site you mention, all I get is 
also a blank page.

On the same line with my address bar, to the right, there is an icon for 
noscript, showing that it is blocking some sites.  By clicking on that 
icon, I can try to temporarily or permanently allow code from any of those
sites.  Then I reload the page.

For your blank site, I had to allow abc4news.com and 
sinclairstoryline.com.  Those two were enough for the story to appear
(though I allow some sites by default, so I am not sure if there is 
something else you need to allow).

Of course, when selectively allowing only an incomplete subset of the 
javascript, one can never be sure if there is more "meaningful/useful 
content" on the page that you don't see but are not aware of missing.  
But in this case the story looks like it's there and even has a picture, 
so I assume the rest of the javascript will not add content to this news 
item.

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why won't ff look at this url? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-24 16:30 +0200
  Re: why won't ff look at this url? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2019-08-24 16:40 +0200
    Re: why won't ff look at this url? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-08-24 16:50 +0200
    Re: why won't ff look at this url? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-24 18:30 +0200
      Re: why won't ff look at this url? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2019-08-24 18:50 +0200
        Re: why won't ff look at this url? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-24 19:20 +0200
          Re: why won't ff look at this url? Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-08-24 20:20 +0200
            Re: why won't ff look at this url? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-24 20:50 +0200
              Re: why won't ff look at this url? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-08-24 21:20 +0200
                Re: why won't ff look at this url? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-08-24 21:50 +0200
                Re: why won't ff look at this url? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-08-24 22:00 +0200
                Re: why won't ff look at this url? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-08-25 00:00 +0200
                Re: why won't ff look at this url? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-08-25 00:10 +0200
                Re: why won't ff look at this url? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2019-08-25 02:50 +0200
                Re: why won't ff look at this url? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-25 03:00 +0200
                Re: why won't ff look at this url? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2019-08-25 03:10 +0200
                Re: why won't ff look at this url? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-08-25 03:20 +0200
                Re: why won't ff look at this url? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2019-08-25 04:20 +0200
          Re: why won't ff look at this url? Selim T. Erdoğan <selim@alumni.cs.utexas.edu> - 2019-08-24 22:20 +0200
            Re: why won't ff look at this url? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-25 01:10 +0200
  Re: why won't ff look at this url? Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2019-08-24 17:00 +0200
  Re: why won't ff look at this url? Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-08-24 20:20 +0200
    Re: why won't ff look at this url? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-24 20:50 +0200
      Re: why won't ff look at this url? Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2019-08-24 21:50 +0200
  Re: why won't ff look at this url? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-08-26 21:30 +0200
    Re: why won't ff look at this url? Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2019-08-27 01:20 +0200
      Re: why won't ff look at this url? mett <mett@pmars.jp> - 2019-08-27 17:00 +0200

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