Weird firefox problem with cnn.com
Mike Chambers
mike at miketc.com
Thu Jun 7 14:08:56 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 13:35 +0000, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Just for curiosity, has anyone else seen this problem:
>
> Recently, cnn.com stopped loading when I tried to get there. I
> played with it a lot, and eventually found a 100% correlation
> between the "Bookmarks" sidebar being open in the main firefox
> window, and cnn.com not loading (it just says waiting on www.cnn.com
> for a long time, then eventually says Done and the browser has a blank
> screen :-).
>
> If I close the sidebar and goto www.cnn.com, it works perfectly :-).
>
> I've seen some peculiar bugs, but this is one of the strangest.
>
> Whatever it is seems to be related to some recent change at cnn.com
> because it never used to be a problem, and I haven't seen any
> other web site with the problem.
I just tested and mine loaded with no problems. What version of java
and flash-plugin are you using? Maybe you need to update?
flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-1
jre-1.6.0_01-fcs
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Mike Chambers
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