Re: why won't ff look at this url?
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:
> > > > > On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 10:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > >
> > > > https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-direct
> > > >or-a
> > > >
> > > > > >rrested-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
> > > > > got
> > > >
> > > > that
> > > >
> > > > > disabled or blocked with a plugin?
> > > >
> > > > IDK, how do I check?
> > >
> > > Well, you'd know if you'd installed a specific plugin like
> > > NoScript,
> >
> > Stuff like noscript is installed but all that is disabled
>
> Noscript might have become active again if you updated to
> Debian 10 buster recently.
>
Sorry, no. Stretch yet.
> I installed noscript many years ago and tried it out but I guess back
> then it felt a little annoying to have to explicitly allow all the
> various pages so I allowed javascript by default. (i.e. noscript
> stayed installed but wasn't doing anything.) A few weeks ago I
> finally updated to buster and I noticed that it had gone back to
> blocking javascript by default. Since then I've been trying the
> block-by-default setup and I like it so I've kept it like that.
>
> So with noscript active, when I try the site you mention, all I get is
> also a blank page.
>
> On the same line with my address bar, to the right, there is an icon
> for noscript, showing that it is blocking some sites. By clicking on
> that icon, I can try to temporarily or permanently allow code from any
> of those sites. Then I reload the page.
>
> For your blank site, I had to allow abc4news.com and
> sinclairstoryline.com. Those two were enough for the story to appear
> (though I allow some sites by default, so I am not sure if there is
> something else you need to allow).
>
> Of course, when selectively allowing only an incomplete subset of the
> javascript, one can never be sure if there is more "meaningful/useful
> content" on the page that you don't see but are not aware of missing.
> But in this case the story looks like it's there and even has a
> picture, so I assume the rest of the javascript will not add content
> to this news item.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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