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Interesting little internet problem

November 30th, 2012 · 14 Comments

The Guardian: won’t load in Firefox at all.

But will in Chrome.

Been like this for a few days now. Not actually important or anything, just puzzling.

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  • 1 Ian B // Nov 30, 2012 at 9:42 am

    You should use Opera like I do. Every time they release a new version, random bits of the internets stop working. It adds a certain frisson to the daily grind, wondering which bits of cyberspace will be accessible in version 12.3.2 or whatever.

  • 2 Lovegoats // Nov 30, 2012 at 9:44 am

    It hasn’t improved suddenly.

  • 3 me again // Nov 30, 2012 at 9:53 am

    Just tried and it does. Delete and reload Firefox.

  • 4 Warwickshire Lad // Nov 30, 2012 at 10:14 am

    Send an email to Firefox thanking them.

  • 5 Frederick // Nov 30, 2012 at 10:17 am

    You must have that special add-in installed. The one that refuses to go to websites which spew crap. It’s called Guardian guardian.

  • 6 Flatcap Army // Nov 30, 2012 at 10:37 am

    Graun’s fine for me on Firefox – are you running the latest version (16.0.2 on Windows)?

  • 7 Flatcap Army // Nov 30, 2012 at 10:42 am

    inevitably the *second* I hit Submit I had a message to update to V 17.0

  • 8 Warwickshire Lad // Nov 30, 2012 at 10:49 am

    IanB, why do you use Opera? There must be benefits which make it worthwhile?

  • 9 View from the Solent // Nov 30, 2012 at 11:04 am

    Have you tried Fx with extensions disabled?

    Start Fx then
    Help -> Restart with Add-ons Disabled

    Also, check to see what version you are running
    Help – about Firefox

    If it’s 17.0 (issued last week) it might be a cookie problem. Reported by users all over the place.
    I went back to ver 16.1, then decided I’d had enough grief with their constant updates screwing me around and shifted to Fx ESR
    http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all.html

    That’s updated with security fixes only, with a roughly annual major release.

  • 10 Dave // Nov 30, 2012 at 12:36 pm

    If anyone’s interested in the reasons, it’s because, in no particular order:

    - All software is a heaping pile of shite
    - Browsers are even worse than most, working to a widely ignored, badly written standard
    - Web developers have to do their best to develop pages that work on all browsers which have ever existed or will exist in future, but it’s clearly a hopeless task; it’s not even possible to make pages work properly on all three main browsers popular today
    - Given the impossibility of the task, the most popular browsers take priority, and that means Firefox is losing out these days

  • 11 Ian B // Nov 30, 2012 at 1:01 pm

    IanB, why do you use Opera? There must be benefits which make it worthwhile?

    Well, I like to live on the edge, you know.

    Really, I just like the interface. I just wish that they would stop breaking it every time they add a new feature in.

  • 12 MakajazMonkee // Nov 30, 2012 at 3:42 pm

    Hmmm can we gleam from this the majority of Guardian readers use internet explorer?

    That would be a fact with some implications!

  • 13 Martin // Nov 30, 2012 at 11:48 pm

    Loaded for me on Firefox no problem.

  • 14 bloke in spain // Dec 2, 2012 at 12:38 am

    Just had a mail-chat with one of the contributors to The Commentator & there’s a Firefox problem there as well. Different problem but might indicate the latest Fx distro’s buggy.

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