On 2018-06-24 09:49, Fred wrote:
On 06/23/2018 05:23 PM, John Crawley wrote:
On 2018-06-24 03:18, Richard Owlett wrote:
For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to
https://manpages.debian.org/ .
Usually these days (last couple of months?) when I click a link in
Firefox pointing to an online Debian manpage it takes a very long
time to load, and sometimes drops out.
OTOH if I paste the address directly in the address bar it opens
immediately.
I am using firefox-esr (52.7.3) on Jessie and the above link opens
immediately.
Using firefox-esr in Stretch (52.8.1 btw, also in Jessie now) and just
clicked the above link ( https://manpages.debian.org/ ) in Thunderbird
to get the same spinning "Transferring data from manpages.debian.org"
and the tab still hasn't loaded after several minutes.
I also right-clicked the link, "copy link location" and pasted it into
another tab's address bar. It appeared as exactly the same URL in the
address bar, but loaded immediately. Likewise if I select the text,
Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V in Firefox. Immediate.
I've only noticed this with the Debian manpages site though. URLs in
mail messages are usually opened instantly in a new non-focussed tab.
Maybe some addon some of us are using is getting in the way of Mozilla's
handling of link requests?
(That first tab still hasn't loaded why I've been slowly typing this.)