google news buttons no longer working
In Firefox 18 and 19, the buttons to expand / contract the news items on http://news.google.com/ are no longer work (and some no longer show up).
A similar issue was (supposedly) fixed as referenced in this thread:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2576447
But the fix (and workarounds) do not seem to work.
The problem persists after restarting in safe mode.
Chosen solution
by PeterSteinbergThanks; I forgot about that option.
After a reset and slowly restoring my previous settings I tracked it down to having:
network.cookie.lifetimePolicy set to 1
which seems odd, but it's working again.
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Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 11.5 r502
- NPWLPG
- 5.1.10411.0
- IE Tab Plug-in for Mozilla/Firefox
- HD View 3.3.0.0 Mozilla plugin
Application
- Firefox 19.0
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
- Support URL: http://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/19.0/WINNT/en-US/
Extensions
- Adblock Plus 2.2.1
- Bookmark Duplicate Detector 1.0.7
- Bookmark Favicon Changer 1.73
- DictionarySearch 10.0.0
- Feedback 1.2.2
- Firebug 1.11.1
- Greasemonkey 1.5
- HackTheWeb 1.3.20
- IE Tab Plus 2.0.0.0
- Image Zoom 0.4.6
- NoScript 2.6.4.2
- Sage++ (Higmmer's Edition) 2.3.17
- SQLite Manager 0.7.7
- Status-4-Evar 2012.07.08.17
- Status-bar Scientific Calculator 5.0.2
- Tab Mix Plus 0.4.0.5pre.130114a
- TinyURL Generator 2.6.1
- User Agent Switcher 0.7.3
- Web Developer 1.2.2
- IDS_SS_NAME IDS_SS_VERSION (Inactive)
Javascript
- incrementalGCEnabled: True
Graphics
- adapterDescription: AMD FirePro 2270
- adapterDescription2:
- adapterDeviceID: 0x68f2
- adapterDeviceID2:
- adapterDrivers: aticfx64 aticfx64 aticfx64 aticfx32 aticfx32 aticfx32 atiumd64 atidxx64 atidxx64 atiumdag atidxx32 atidxx32 atiumdva atiumd6a atitmm64
- adapterDrivers2:
- adapterRAM: 512
- adapterRAM2:
- adapterVendorID: 0x1002
- adapterVendorID2:
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- directWriteEnabled: True
- directWriteVersion: 6.1.7601.17789
- driverDate: 2-14-2012
- driverDate2:
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- driverVersion2:
- info: {u'AzureContentBackend': u'direct2d', u'AzureCanvasBackend': u'direct2d', u'AzureFallbackCanvasBackend': u'cairo'}
- isGPU2Active: False
- numAcceleratedWindows: 1
- numTotalWindows: 1
- webglRenderer: Google Inc. -- ANGLE (AMD FirePro 2270)
- windowLayerManagerType: Direct3D 10
Modified Preferences
- accessibility.typeaheadfind: True
- accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar: 0
- browser.cache.disk.capacity: 51200
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 778240
- browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction: 0
- browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion: 4
- browser.search.suggest.enabled: False
- browser.search.update: False
- browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash: False
- browser.startup.homepage: http://www.google.com
- browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID: 20130109111322
- browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone: 19.0
- browser.tabs.autoHide: True
- browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground: True
- browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground: True
- browser.tabs.onTop: False
- browser.tabs.tabMinWidth: 40
- dom.disable_window_move_resize: True
- dom.event.contextmenu.enabled: False
- dom.mozApps.used: True
- extensions.lastAppVersion: 19.0
- general.autoScroll: False
- gfx.direct3d.prefer_10_1: True
- network.cookie.cookieBehavior: 1
- network.cookie.lifetimePolicy: 1
- network.cookie.prefsMigrated: True
- places.database.lastMaintenance: 1357942857
- places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 104858
- plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types: application/pdf
- privacy.donottrackheader.enabled: True
- privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs: True
- security.warn_viewing_mixed: False
Misc
- User JS: No
- Accessibility: No
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- Go to Firefox > Help > Troubleshooting Information.
- Click the "Reset Firefox" button.
- Firefox will close and reset. After Firefox is done, it will show a window with the information that is imported. Click Finish.
- Firefox will open with all factory defaults applied.
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Chosen Solution
Thanks; I forgot about that option.
After a reset and slowly restoring my previous settings I tracked it down to having:
network.cookie.lifetimePolicy set to 1
which seems odd, but it's working again.