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, 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 work as described / expected in my somewhat outdated Firefox, but 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/,
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>
