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Lynn McGuire

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Oct 26, 2015, 1:24:39 AM10/26/15
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Why is http://drudgereport.com/ having such troubles displaying in FF
41.0.2 on Windows 7 x64 ?

This is one of the most visited sites on the web. The site is
continuously refreshing, is this the site or FF. Also, advertising
seems to be having problems with taking over the view for the webpage
and not allowing the hyperlinks to show up properly.

Thanks,
Lynn

Lino Morales

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Oct 26, 2015, 1:32:21 AM10/26/15
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Hello Lynn. I'm a blind user and I've just loaded Drudge's site. I see no problems. No refreshing here. Oops nevrmind. It just refreshed. I'm on WIN 10 64 bit and am able to read the links fine with my screen reader. I'm also running FF 41.2.

On 10/26/2015 1:23 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> Why is  http://drudgereport.com/  having such troubles displaying in > FF 41.0.2 on Windows 7 x64 ? > > This is one of the most visited sites on the web.  The site is > continuously refreshing, is this the site or FF.  Also, advertising > seems to be having problems with taking over the view for the webpage > and not allowing the hyperlinks to show up properly. > > Thanks, Lynn _______________________________________________ > support-firefox mailing list support...@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-firefox To unsubscribe, > send an email to > support-fir...@lists.mozilla.org?subject=unsubscribe >


Good Guy

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Oct 26, 2015, 1:38:06 AM10/26/15
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No problems on FF 41.0.2 on Windows 7 machine.  My other two machines- Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 are off at the moment and I haven't tried on them.

Hilary is 68 and god knows why she wants the hassle of becoming President of the world!!!

Lynn McGuire

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Oct 26, 2015, 1:48:14 AM10/26/15
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On 10/26/2015 12:32 AM, Lino Morales wrote:
> Hello Lynn. I'm a blind user and I've just loaded Drudge's site. I see
> no problems. No refreshing here. Oops nevrmind. It just refreshed. I'm
> on WIN 10 64 bit and am able to read the links fine with my screen
> reader. I'm also running FF 41.2.
>
> On 10/26/2015 1:23 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> Why ishttp://drudgereport.com/ having such troubles displaying in > FF 41.0.2
> on Windows 7 x64 ? > > This is one of the most visited sites on the
> web. The site is > continuously refreshing, is this the site or FF.
> Also, advertising > seems to be having problems with taking over the
> view for the webpage > and not allowing the hyperlinks to show up
> properly. > > Thanks, Lynn
> _______________________________________________ > support-firefox
> mailing list support...@lists.mozilla.org >
> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-firefox To unsubscribe, >
> send an email to >
> support-fir...@lists.mozilla.org?subject=unsubscribe >

Give it a while and one of the refreshes will fail. On my Windows 7 x6
pc, it is refreshing about every minute. I cannot believe that the
website owner would refresh that often, it is very distracting.

Thanks,
Lynn


Lynn McGuire

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Oct 26, 2015, 1:48:38 AM10/26/15
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WaltS48

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Oct 26, 2015, 9:07:47 AM10/26/15
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On 10/26/2015 01:23 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> Why is http://drudgereport.com/ having such troubles displaying in FF
> 41.0.2 on Windows 7 x64 ?
>

It's the advertising.

> This is one of the most visited sites on the web. The site is
> continuously refreshing, is this the site or FF. Also, advertising
> seems to be having problems with taking over the view for the webpage
> and not allowing the hyperlinks to show up properly.
>
> Thanks,
> Lynn


The site, and Firefox. You need to use an ad blocking extension.



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Wolf K.

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Oct 26, 2015, 9:40:01 AM10/26/15
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On 2015-10-26 09:07, WaltS48 wrote:
> On 10/26/2015 01:23 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> Why is http://drudgereport.com/ having such troubles displaying in FF
>> 41.0.2 on Windows 7 x64 ?
>>
>
> It's the advertising.
>
>> This is one of the most visited sites on the web. The site is
>> continuously refreshing, is this the site or FF. Also, advertising
>> seems to be having problems with taking over the view for the webpage
>> and not allowing the hyperlinks to show up properly.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Lynn
>
>
> The site, and Firefox. You need to use an ad blocking extension.

validator.w3.org reports 132 errors, 38 warnings.

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VanguardLH

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Oct 26, 2015, 2:39:34 PM10/26/15
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Lynn McGuire wrote:

> This is one of the most visited sites on the web.

601 according to alexa.com. google.com is number one.

> The site is continuously refreshing, is this the site or FF. Also,
> advertising seems to be having problems with taking over the view for
> the webpage and not allowing the hyperlinks to show up properly.

I have the Flash add-on configured to "Ask". That means a placeholder
is shown on the page or an infobar pops up asking if I want to run the
Flash content. I can then choose to see it or not. Makes page display
faster without the nuisance or distraction of Flash content that I do
not want to see.

I also have Ghostery installed. Far less a hog on memory than using
AdBlock Plus because its blacklist is much smaller but proven to be
nearly 98% as Adblock Plus. Ghostery blocked 12 tracker/ad sources on
their home page.

Have you revisited that web page (after flushing the TIF cache) since
first noticing the problem? I notice their web page has:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var timer = setInterval("autoRefresh()", 1000 * 47 * 3);
function autoRefresh(){self.location.reload(true);}
//-->
</script>

Seems pretty stupid to define a script that refreshes the page every 141
seconds [or whatever is the timer's granularity] to then just comment it
out (between the "<!--" and "//-->" lines). Perhaps they intended the
refresh to occur according to some event, fucked up, and for now decided
to comment it out. Later they call the autorefresh() function using:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
// ads breaking timetimer
if (typeof timer == 'undefined') {
var timer = setInterval("autoRefresh()", 1000 * 60 * 3);
function autoRefresh(){self.location.reload(true);}
}
//-->
</script>

So they were refreshing their page to update the ads. Perhaps each
refresh would offer a different set of ads. However, they commented out
that script, too. They intended something to happen, didn't know how to
code for it, used something that worked but also had bad side effects,
and they commented it all out and will have to figure out something else
for their ad management.

So load a *fresh* copy of their web page to see if the problem still
occurs.

pioruns

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Nov 21, 2015, 2:14:14 AM11/21/15
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On 26/10/15 05:47, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> Give it a while and one of the refreshes will fail. On my Windows 7 x6
> pc, it is refreshing about every minute. I cannot believe that the
> website owner would refresh that often, it is very distracting.

It's just a poor written website. On source code, straight on the top,
you can see:

var timer = setInterval("autoRefresh()", 1000 * 47 * 3);
function autoRefresh(){self.location.reload(true);}

So it's not a Firefox problem.

Regards,
pioruns

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