{"id":297,"date":"2012-10-25T08:31:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T12:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyclops.creed3.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2013-02-27T09:15:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T13:15:31","slug":"interesting-firefox-anomaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Firefox Anomaly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Firefox\" I’ve noticed an odd Firefox behavior on my Macbook Pro developing for 6 months or so.  Some links to certain web sites would not work any longer.  It started with anything yahoo.  No matter what I tried I just couldn’t view the site.  Then I started to notice sometimes links pointing to Facebook wouldn’t load right.  I had no trouble going to these sites directly, it was only when linked from another site.  Even when it was a result in a Google search.<\/p>\n

At first I thought it was Google simply trying to keep me from the competition.  But I started noticing it with links from any other site as well.  I tried deactivating extensions, even removing them, one at a time.  Nope.  Tried cleaning various caches and preferences.  Nope.  Even updates to Firefox itself didn’t seem to make a difference.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, a few days ago, I opted for the extreme solution.  Rip out Firefox including all support files, and reinstall anew.  So far, that fixed it, no more ‘blocked’ sites.  It’s been a minor hassle but well worth it to get full functionality returned.  I still don’t know what caused that, but the reinstall suggests it was a setting or preference somewhere.  At this point I’m just going to attempt to pay closer attention to each extension reinstall or any other mods I make to the about:config file and see if I can track it down.<\/p>\n

I’d be interested in knowing if anyone else has seen this before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve noticed an odd Firefox behavior on my Macbook Pro developing for 6 months or so.  Some links to certain web sites would not work any longer.  It started with anything yahoo.  No matter what I tried I just couldn’t view the site.  Then I started to notice sometimes links pointing to Facebook wouldn’t load […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-mac","category-technology"],"views":1965,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}