Re: STRANGE problem reaching https://manpages.debian.org/

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 05/10/2018 07:35 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I'm running Debian 9 installed via netinst in February with some
> > packages added via Synaptic and run neither Update nor Upgrade explicitly.
> >
> > My browser is SeaMonkey 2.49.1 downloaded from
> > https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ . I have no
> > add-ins/add-ons/extensions/etc installed.i
> > [...]
> > This morning I'd visited a site which required JavaScript.
> > Without having disabled JavaScript I attempted to visit
> > https://manpages.debian.org/ .
> > It never loaded. There were NO error messages.
>
> Hm, worked fine here, although I only have ff (59.0.2) with ublock
> (although it's stating nothing was blocked).
>
> The page does load some javascript though -- looks to do something with
> the fonts / css, but it's been a while since I've used JS (and I hated
> it with a passion back then, most of the offending language has been
> scrubbed from my memory with copious amounts of liquor).

I've the "Firefox ESR" that was installed by default.
It loaded  https://manpages.debian.org/ OK.
I don't know if it has JavaScript enabled nor do I know how to check.
Don't know how to verify its version either.
Tried ff a few time in past. Never liked it.

I'll post to SeaMonkey mailing list.