Firefox have gone haywire ?

[lejeczek]

Hi guys

Since two updates/versions back my Firefox goes haywire on 
some websites - does anybody else see it too?
Amazon Prime (UK) Video menu/graphics is malformed - 
https://photouploads.com/image/Mny6 - and it's only Firefox.

thanks, L.

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2022-09-27 at 13:50 +0100, lejeczek via users wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> Since two updates/versions back my Firefox goes haywire on 
> some websites - does anybody else see it too?
> Amazon Prime (UK) Video menu/graphics is malformed - 
> https://photouploads.com/image/Mny6%C2%A0- and it's only Firefox.

Works for me. F36, Nvidia (proprietary driver), X11.

As always, try it without any extensions.

poc

[Tim]

On Tue, 2022-09-27 at 13:50 +0100, lejeczek via users wrote:
> Since two updates/versions back my Firefox goes haywire on some
> websites - does anybody else see it too?
> Amazon Prime (UK) Video menu/graphics is malformed - 
> https://photouploads.com/image/Mny6 - and it's only Firefox.

I would try purging its cache.  Don't dispose of your passwords and
cookies, too, unless you want to.

The clear data button is in the cookies and site data section of the
preferences, but it brings up a dialogue asking whether you want to
purge cookies and site data, and/or cached web content.  Just do the
cached files, and try reloading.

[Jack Craig]

this failure is seen on safari too, ...

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 10:15 AM Tim via users <
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> On Tue, 2022-09-27 at 13:50 +0100, lejeczek via users wrote:
> > Since two updates/versions back my Firefox goes haywire on some
> > websites - does anybody else see it too?
> > Amazon Prime (UK) Video menu/graphics is malformed -
> > https://photouploads.com/image/Mny6 - and it's only Firefox.
>
> I would try purging its cache.  Don't dispose of your passwords and
> cookies, too, unless you want to.
>
> The clear data button is in the cookies and site data section of the
> preferences, but it brings up a dialogue asking whether you want to
> purge cookies and site data, and/or cached web content.  Just do the
> cached files, and try reloading.
>
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[lejeczek]

On 27/09/2022 18:15, Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-09-27 at 13:50 +0100, lejeczek via users wrote:
> > Since two updates/versions back my Firefox goes haywire on some
> > websites - does anybody else see it too?
> > Amazon Prime (UK) Video menu/graphics is malformed -
> > https://photouploads.com/image/Mny6 - and it's only Firefox.
>
> I would try purging its cache.  Don't dispose of your passwords and
> cookies, too, unless you want to.
>
> The clear data button is in the cookies and site data section of the
> preferences, but it brings up a dialogue asking whether you want to
> purge cookies and site data, and/or cached web content.  Just do the
> cached files, and try reloading.

I did clear cookies but not data - which data clearance 
turns out solved the issue - thanks for the tip!
L.

[Tim]

On Wed, 2022-09-28 at 09:47 +0100, lejeczek via users wrote:
> I did clear cookies but not data - which data clearance 
> turns out solved the issue - thanks for the tip!

Site authors play with their sites all the time, just as much (or more)
as users fiddle with their computer.  Sometimes their changes aren't
compatible with their previous site content.  They'll just reload their
browser and not give much thought as to how their users will deal with
the change (trying to reload a page on a non-computer browser can be a
pain).

Clearing cached content often flushes away something that isn't working
right.  Sometimes you need to purge cookies (which can contain site
custom preferences that you've made, automatic options to login again
next time with a password stored on your computer, site bookmarks for
previous interactions, etc).

I tend to do cache purges first, new content will (should) always load
in as you browse a page, so purging cached old content shouldn't cause
a problem by itself.

Purging cookies tends to cause nuisance factors without solving
problems (though sometimes it *does* fix things).  Nuisances such as
having to relog into the TV guide site, instead of it popping up as me
already logged into it, or reconfiguring it as to which state I live
in, and which channels I want to ignore.

The relog in versus continue from before tends to be the biggest pain,
as you have to find the login details again.  Some sites are designed
in such a way that they mess up your browsers auto-fill-in feature.

Most purged cookies don't affect you, they're there for advertisers,
and other tracking purposes that were never under your control, nor of
any interest to you.

[stan]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2022 13:50:52 +0100
lejeczek via users  wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> Since two updates/versions back my Firefox goes haywire on 
> some websites - does anybody else see it too?
> Amazon Prime (UK) Video menu/graphics is malformed - 
> https://photouploads.com/image/Mny6 - and it's only Firefox.

I'm using nightly from 
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/?utm_source=blog.night...
and I am not seeing any issues.  But that could be because I just
haven't visited sites that have them.  I visited amazon.com, no issues.

Off topic, I think I started seeing fallout from the mesa removal of
va-api (in f37 and rawhide) when viewing online videos (patent issues).

And, I watched a video explaining that google is coming out with a new
addon standard (version 3) for chrome that will prevent ad and privacy
blockers from working.  They claim it is a security measure, and it
will have that effect, but without blocking all those third parties, it
will slow browsing to a crawl, and all those ads will make browsing
awful. It will definitely affect chrome derived browsers unless they
build such functionality into their fork. Firefox is apparently not
going to implement this, but something else to be aware of in case they
change their mind.

[Joe Zeff]

On 9/27/22 19:22, stan via users wrote:
> They claim it is a security measure, and it
> will have that effect, but without blocking all those third parties, it
> will slow browsing to a crawl, and all those ads will make browsing
> awful. It will definitely affect chrome derived browsers unless they
> build such functionality into their fork.

Yet another reason I'm glad I don't use Chrome.

[Javier Perez]

Me too. Typing backspace too many times in reddit totally crashes firefox.
I thought all windows were comparmentalized, a crash in one would not bring
down the whole app, but it is not happening.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022, 07:51 lejeczek via users <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> Since two updates/versions back my Firefox goes haywire on some websites -
> does anybody else see it too?
> Amazon Prime (UK) Video menu/graphics is malformed -
> https://photouploads.com/image/Mny6 - and it's only Firefox.
>
> thanks, L.
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