On 2019-08-24 at 15:48, Brian wrote: > On Sat 24 Aug 2019 at 21:15:50 +0200, to...@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as suggested a few posts back, and I'm not entirely positive it would work as described / expected in my somewhat outdated Firefox, but that's a good suggestion and I'll want to pursue it for possible further clues.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/, 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. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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