Advert-is-ments broken on Firefox/Mac

BetterJudgment · Jan 12, 2015, 2:33 AM

I can't get the page with the listing of threads to come up on Firefox 34.0.5 on Yosemite. I can read the individual threads, but the main page is blank. It does work on Safari.

Thenomain · Jan 12, 2015, 12:53 AM

@BetterJudgment,

Sometimes I get blank posts on Safari until I re-load the page. Sometimes I need to wait a few seconds.

BetterJudgment · Jan 12, 2015, 12:57 AM

You're right, refreshing fixes it in Firefox as well. It's still strange that that page--and now this thread--consistently require a refresh, though.

3543thrh67 · Jan 12, 2015, 12:58 AM

It does the same with me on Chrome. I just reload.

ThatOneDude · Jan 12, 2015, 1:32 AM

I have a mac with Yosemite and running this site on Safari, Firefox and Chrome I don't seem to have any issues. Not sure what could be different.

Chime · Jan 12, 2015, 2:00 AM

The adverts board (and even looking at some adverts messages, like this one), is quite broken on Chrome for me.

Reloading seeeeeems to fix it, sometimes, but it is a recurring problem.

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Thenomain · Jan 12, 2015, 2:19 AM

Okay, here's an experiment. I turned the normal hyphen (-) in the title to an en-dash (–) to see what happens.

edit 1: nope. trying periods (.) instead of dashes (-).

edit 2: nope, hmm.

edit 3: changing 'advert-is-ments' to 'adver-tis-ments' seems to fix this.

Thenomain · Jan 12, 2015, 2:34 AM

It looks like a URL segment (post title or category) starting with "advert" is possibly triggering some kind of anti-advertising system that is blanking out the contents. No idea which ones.

For example, a title of 'Advert*' is giving me the blank screen, but 'Adver-*' is not. @Glitch is not getting these pages blocked because he has no ad-blocker running in his web browser.

Solution? Don't Do That.

edit: I made the topic 'Advert-is-ments' again so people can test this out and report their findings here.

BetterJudgment · Jan 12, 2015, 3:22 AM

@Thenomain said:

edit: I made the topic 'Advert-is-ments' again so people can test this out and report their findings here.

I think you got it. "Aver-tis-ments" worked fine, and "Advert-is-ments" brought up a gray screen until I refreshed. Now that I've disabled AdBlock Plus on musoapbox.net, I can hit either page without any issues.