Weird firefox problem with cnn.com

Simon Andrews simon.andrews at bbsrc.ac.uk
Thu Jun 7 15:06:28 UTC 2007


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 :-).

Nope.  Works fine here (firefox-2.0.0.4-2.fc7 on an i686).

Try creating a new account and see if it works there.  If so try moving 
your ~/.mozilla folder to a different name and see if it starts working 
in your account.

Simon.




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