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

2019-08-27 Thread mett
On 2019年8月27日 8:09:16 JST, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > >On 08/26/2019 03:22 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Sb, 24 aug 19, 10:21:59, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> Greetings folks; >>> >>>

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

2019-08-26 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 08/26/2019 03:22 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 24 aug 19, 10:21:59, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings folks; https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-arrested-accused-of-missing-and-tampering-with-narcotics All I get for clicking on it is a blank screen. Two

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

2019-08-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 24 aug 19, 10:21:59, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings folks; > > https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-arrested-accused-of-missing-and-tampering-with-narcotics > > All I get for clicking on it is a blank screen. Two things you could try: 1. firefox

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

2019-08-25 Thread Larry Martell
On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 8:47 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 24 August 2019 19:31:13 Larry Martell wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 7:27 PM bw wrote: > > > In-Reply-To: <201908241021.59396.ghesk...@shentel.net> > > > > > > > Greetings folks; > > > > > >

Re: OT: AI (was: Re: why won't ff look at this url?)

2019-08-25 Thread rhkramer
Hmm, I probably should have replied to the (sub-)thread started by bw, "How good is AI?" On Sunday, August 25, 2019 08:20:00 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, August 24, 2019 08:47:03 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > > No programmer is good enough to make a bot like Gene. > > things.>

OT: AI (was: Re: why won't ff look at this url?)

2019-08-25 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, August 24, 2019 08:47:03 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > No programmer is good enough to make a bot like Gene. I disagree, now that I think about it. I remember Lisa, and I know there have been great advances in AI (e.g., neural networks, ...) What a stroke of genius by the

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

2019-08-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-08-24 at 21:16, John Hasler wrote: > http://www.electoral-vote.com/ comes up fine here on Firefox 60.8.0. Naturally enough. > It wants to load script from itself, Twitter, and Addthis (I don't > let it, of course). It doesn't seem to want to set any cookies, but > you might try

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

2019-08-24 Thread John Hasler
http://www.electoral-vote.com/ comes up fine here on Firefox 60.8.0. It wants to load script from itself, Twitter, and Addthis (I don't let it, of course). It doesn't seem to want to set any cookies, but you might try clearing your cookies and cache anyway. Sometimes sites won't load because you

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

2019-08-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-08-24 at 20:57, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 24 August 2019 20:48:37 The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2019-08-24 at 15:48, Brian wrote: >>> This page is displayed on my machine; no problem. I imagine it >>> is displayed on any other computer on the internet, including >>> yours (which

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

2019-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 24 August 2019 20:50:25 John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > And I'd like to be able to at least get an error message giving me a > > clue what to do when at least 25% of the news sites I visit are > > similarly blank pages. > > In addition to add-ons such as NoScript, take a look at

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

2019-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
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

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

2019-08-24 Thread John Hasler
Gene writes: > And I'd like to be able to at least get an error message giving me a > clue what to do when at least 25% of the news sites I visit are > similarly blank pages. In addition to add-ons such as NoScript, take a look at the settings in Preferences->Privacy in Firefox. These sites want

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

2019-08-24 Thread The Wanderer
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

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

2019-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 24 August 2019 19:31:13 Larry Martell wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 7:27 PM bw wrote: > > In-Reply-To: <201908241021.59396.ghesk...@shentel.net> > > > > > Greetings folks; > > > > https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-a >

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

2019-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 24 August 2019 19:08:50 bw wrote: > In-Reply-To: <201908241021.59396.ghesk...@shentel.net> > > > Greetings folks; > > https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-arr >ested-accused-of-missing-and-tampering-with-narcotics > > > All I get for clicking on it is a

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

2019-08-24 Thread Larry Martell
On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 7:27 PM bw wrote: > In-Reply-To: <201908241021.59396.ghesk...@shentel.net> > > > Greetings folks; > > > > > > https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-arrested-accused-of-missing-and-tampering-with-narcotics > > > > All I get for clicking on it

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

2019-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 24 August 2019 16:18:30 Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 01:10:36PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 24 August 2019 12:43:39 Tixy wrote: > > > On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 12:22 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Saturday 24 August 2019 10:33:20 Tixy wrote: > >

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

2019-08-24 Thread tomas
On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 10:57:10PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 24 Aug 2019 at 21:58:43 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > You can be smug as you want, until... some thing stops working at > > your end. Then you come here :) > > The very last thing I would post here about is a non-working

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

2019-08-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 Aug 2019 at 21:58:43 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 08:48:45PM +0100, 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

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

2019-08-24 Thread Selim T . Erdoğan
On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 01:10:36PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 24 August 2019 12:43:39 Tixy wrote: > > > On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 12:22 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 24 August 2019 10:33:20 Tixy wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 10:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >

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

2019-08-24 Thread tomas
On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 08:48:45PM +0100, 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

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

2019-08-24 Thread Erwan David
Le 24/08/2019 à 20:40, Gene Heskett a écrit : > On Saturday 24 August 2019 14:11:26 Mark Allums wrote: > >> On 8/24/19 9:21 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> Greetings folks; >>> >>> https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-a >>>

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

2019-08-24 Thread Brian
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

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

2019-08-24 Thread tomas
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 :-) But what you can do is: - enter the offending page's

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

2019-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 24 August 2019 14:16:31 Mark Allums wrote: > > Addons, plugins are all disabled. No change. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Try clearing cache. Just did. No change. > Maybe reboot your router. Twice this morning for other reasons udev related. udev haws a hate/hate relationship

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

2019-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 24 August 2019 14:11:26 Mark Allums wrote: > On 8/24/19 9:21 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings folks; > > > > https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-a > >rrested-accused-of-missing-and-tampering-with-narcotics > > > > All I get for clicking on it is a

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

2019-08-24 Thread Mark Allums
Addons, plugins are all disabled. No change. Cheers, Gene Heskett Try clearing cache. Maybe reboot your router. Running a pi-hole? Restart it. Mark

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

2019-08-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 8/24/19 9:21 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings folks; https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-arrested-accused-of-missing-and-tampering-with-narcotics All I get for clicking on it is a blank screen. Thanks for any help. ad-blocker blocker? (site works for me)

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

2019-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 24 August 2019 12:43:39 Tixy wrote: > On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 12:22 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 24 August 2019 10:33:20 Tixy wrote: > > > On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 10:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-a >

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

2019-08-24 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 12:22 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 24 August 2019 10:33:20 Tixy wrote: > > > On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 10:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-a > >

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

2019-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 24 August 2019 10:33:20 Tixy wrote: > On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 10:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-a > >rrested-accused-of-missing-and-tampering-with-narcotics > > > > All I get for clicking on it is a blank screen. > >

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

2019-08-24 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 8/24/19 7:21 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings folks; https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-arrested-accused-of-missing-and-tampering-with-narcotics All I get for clicking on it is a blank screen. local problem Thunderbird opens it in Firefox as expected

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

2019-08-24 Thread John Hasler
Gene Heskett wrote: > https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-arrested-accused-of-missing-and-tampering-with-narcotics > > All I get for clicking on it is a blank screen. It wants to load script from about a dozen sources (fairly typical). You need only permit a few of

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

2019-08-24 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 10:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-arrested-accused-of-missing-and-tampering-with-narcotics > > All I get for clicking on it is a blank screen. Looks like abcnews4.com does everything with javascript. You

why won't ff look at this url?

2019-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings folks; https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-arrested-accused-of-missing-and-tampering-with-narcotics All I get for clicking on it is a blank screen. Thanks for any help. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: