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

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On Saturday 24 August 2019 20:48:37 The Wanderer wrote:

> On 2019-08-24 at 15:48, Brian wrote:
> > On Sat 24 Aug 2019 at 21:15:50 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >> On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 02:44:47PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>
> >> [... some page not showing ...]
> >>
> >> I just would add this page to my (enormous) blacklist. One hash't
> >> to put up with all the abominations the web tries to throw at us
> >> these days :-)
> >
> > This page is displayed on my machine; no problem. I imagine it is
> > displayed on any other computer on the internet, including yours
> > (which you didn't say).
> >
> > The inability for normal things to work, even a simple URL, is a
> > result of the GH effect.
>
> FWIW, I get similar-sounding behaviors with seemingly-arbitrary sites
> on my own primary machine; I've always chalked it up to a fweird bug
> in Firefox, both because it always works through other channels (other
> browsers on the same machine, wget on the same machine, Firefox on
> another machine) and because upgrading Firefox to a new version
> usually fixes it.
>
> When it happens, Firefox just shows the page as plain blank; even
> "View Source" shows an empty document.
>
> It hadn't occurred to me to check the "Web Developer" console as
> suggested a few posts back, and I'm not entirely positive it would
> work as described / expected in my somewhat outdated Firefox, but
> that's a good suggestion and I'll want to pursue it for possible
> further clues.
>
> Currently, the only place I'm seeing this is
> http://www.electoral-vote.com/,

which, fwiw, works just fine here.

> and I've been seeing it there for at 
> least a large fraction of a year and possibly considerably more.
> (Because I haven't managed to wrangle extensions, etc., to the point
> where I'm willing to upgrade Firefox.)
>
> So, depending on what the underlying behavior of what I'm seeing is
> and (to some possible extent) on what browser version Gene is using,
> it's entirely possible that this is a genuine weirdity and not just
> something unique to Gene's (I think) somewhat idiosyncratic
> environment.
>
>
> One thing I haven't tried is a clean Firefox profile, but I suspect
> that that would fix it just as well as a Firefox upgrade would. If so,
> then very likely something in one of Firefox's semi-opaque binary
> configuration files (most if not all of which I think are SQLite
> databases, nowadays) has gotten corrupted, and figuring out what could
> lead to a way to fix it without that clean wipe.


Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
 - Louis D. Brandeis
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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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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