On Saturday, July 31, 2021 4:54 PM I wrote concerning firefox-esr: > Neither translate.google.com nor images.google.com functions properly.
I have figured out the problem and solved it. At some point I remembered that I have in place an old-fashioned way of blocking sites. In /etc/hosts, I have 68 entries of this sort: 127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net that redefine the URL of a pesky site to 127.0.0.1 (localhost). Given a PC at work that handles the Google sites well and a home machine that does not, I compared the two /etc/hosts files. The home (failing) machine had two entries that the work (successful) machine did not: 127.0.0.1 gstatic.com 127.0.0.1 www.gstatic.com I had added those in February, which is about when the failures began. I found that commenting out the second entry (www.gstatic.com) fixed my problem, even if I left the first entry (gstatic.com) in place. I also use a firefox add-on, Forget Me Not. If I add *.gstatic.com to the list of blocked sites, the Google sites still work. This surprises me. I guess the /etc/hosts and Forget Me Not strategies must work at different points. Anyway, thanks to the three respondents for your replies. ________________________________________ From: Ivan Krylov <krylov.r...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, August 2, 2021 8:51 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Google sites don't work > Similar problem here, only with Google sites like Gmail, Docs, and > Chat (via a[n?] university/Google system). Interesting. Do you see any relevant errors if you press F12 and take a look at the JavaScript console on the affected pages, compared to the unaffected pages? What about the Network tab, any failed requests there? -- Best regards, Ivan
