Re: nytimes pages that fail in iceweasel [SOLVED]
On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 21:13:26 -0500, I wrote:
>> A lot of sites on nytimes.com don't work correctly in my iceweasel, e.g.
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/fact-check.html#/factcheck-109
>>
>> If I click on any of the many "Read more" links, I get nothing. I don't
>> guess this is flash. Lots of flash sites work for me, and they ask if I want
>> to allow flash. The nytimes pages do not. Other examples:
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/17/upshot/scalia-supreme-court-senate-nomination.html#g-detailed-responses
>> http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/02/opinion/collins-our-new-year-quiz.html
>>
>> I am running iceweasel 38.6.1 under Wheezy. Any ideas what format these pages
>> use or why they are failing?
On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:04:18 +0100, Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> replied:
> You could try starting Iceweasel with -P and create a new profile. If
> it works there, something is wrong in your normal profile.
I moved my ~/.mozilla directory away, called mozilla, and got a new, very
simple profile. Its prefs.js file was much shorter. By brute force, I
edited out lines that were only in my old prefs.js file until I found the
responsible line:
user_pref("dom.indexedDB.enabled", false);
When I changed this to "true" in my original prefs.js, the web pages worked
properly.
The newly enabled function, IndexedDB, apparently has some security
shortcomings:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281066023_Some_Potential_Issues_with_the_Security_of_HTML5_IndexedDB
The databases that various servers create are stored in the sqlite files
under my iceweasel profile. I may clear those out from time to time.
Thanks to everyone who responded.
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