Problem with FF81 and the Guardian
Beginning about a week or so ago, I can no longer read pages from the Guardian. The page loads correctly but it has no scroll bar and so I can't read the article. I can *see* the entire article by shrinking the text, so I know it is there. For example, this page:
is one that doesn't scroll [just to be clear: none do these days, but i just picked one, double checked that it couldn't scroll and posted it here]. I've looked at the page with ChrEdge and it renders [and scrolls] without a problem.
I haven't run into this problem with any other websites, so I dunno what's going wrong.
Chosen solution
I was prepared for a typical dance: reënable add-ons and then mess with narrowing down which one is causing the problem,.. BUT.... when I reënabled add-ons, the Guardian continued to work! My only guess was that in updating to 81.0 one of the add-ons got screwed up somehow, and disabling and reënabling it made it start behaving. Alas, since the damn thing is now working I have no way to figure out what the misbehaving add-on was.
But the problem is now solved: FF is working perfectly on all sites again
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Many site issues can be caused by corrupt cookies or cache.
Warning ! ! This will log you out of sites you're logged in to. You may also lose any settings for that website.
- How to clear the Firefox cache {web link}
If there is still a problem, Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} by holding down the <Shift> (Mac=Options) key, and then starting Firefox.
A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). Did this help?
While you are in safe mode;
Try disabling graphics hardware acceleration in Firefox. Since this feature was added to Firefox it has gradually improved but there are still a few glitches.
How to disable Hardware Acceleration {web link}
I'm an idiot -- I keep forgetting that the *first* thing to do when this sort of problem crops up is to check things in safe mode. Indeed: starting in safe mode and it all works just fine. So now it is just a matter of figuring out which add-in is causing the trouble. THANKS!
Please let us know what happens.
Chosen Solution
I was prepared for a typical dance: reënable add-ons and then mess with narrowing down which one is causing the problem,.. BUT.... when I reënabled add-ons, the Guardian continued to work! My only guess was that in updating to 81.0 one of the add-ons got screwed up somehow, and disabling and reënabling it made it start behaving. Alas, since the damn thing is now working I have no way to figure out what the misbehaving add-on was.
But the problem is now solved: FF is working perfectly on all sites again
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