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Scroll bar disappears on the Guardian website

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The Guardian website is my start page. Today when I open it up I notice that the scroll bar disappears immediately when the page is loaded. The arrow keys don't work, or the mouse wheel. All other pages are fine - and the Guardian page itself is fine when I use Chrome. It only happens on Firefox, and only today. I can fine no mention of the problem on the web. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks in advance.

The Guardian website is my start page. Today when I open it up I notice that the scroll bar disappears immediately when the page is loaded. The arrow keys don't work, or the mouse wheel. All other pages are fine - and the Guardian page itself is fine when I use Chrome. It only happens on Firefox, and only today. I can fine no mention of the problem on the web. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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If a site is generally known to work in Firefox, these are standard suggestions to try when it stops working normally:

Double-check content blockers: Firefox's Tracking Protection feature, and extensions that counter ads and tracking, may break websites that embed third party content (meaning, from a secondary server).

(A) The shield icon toward the left end of the address bar usually turns a bit purplish when content is blocked. Click the icon to learn more or make an exception. See: Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox for desktop.

(B) Extensions such as Adblock Plus, Blur, Disconnect, DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials, Ghostery, NoScript, Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin or uMatrix usually provide a toolbar button to manage blocked content in a page. There may or may not be a number on the icon indicating the number of blocked items; you sometimes need to click the button to see what's going on and test whether you need to make an exception for this site.

Cache and Cookies: When you have a problem with one particular site, a good "first thing to try" is clearing your Firefox cache and deleting your saved cookies for the site.

(1) Clear Firefox's Cache

See: How to clear the Firefox cache

If you have a large hard drive, this might take a few minutes.

(2) Remove the site's cookies (save any pending work first). While viewing a page on the site, click the lock icon at the left end of the address bar. After a moment, a "Clear Cookies and Site Data" button should appear at the bottom. Go ahead and click that.

In the dialog that opens, you will see one or more matches to the current address so you can remove the site's cookies individually without affecting other sites.

Then try reloading the page. Does that help?

Testing in Firefox's Safe Mode: In its Safe Mode, Firefox temporarily deactivates extensions, hardware acceleration, and some other advanced features to help you assess whether these are causing the problem.

If Firefox is running: You can restart Firefox in Safe Mode using either:

  • "3-bar" menu button > "?" Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled
  • (menu bar) Help menu > Restart with Add-ons Disabled

and OK the restart. A small dialog should appear. Click "Start in Safe Mode" (not Refresh).

If Firefox is not running: Hold down the option/alt key when starting Firefox. (On Windows, hold down the Shift key instead of the option/alt key.) A small dialog should appear. Click "Start in Safe Mode" (not Refresh).

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jscher2000

Thank you so much for your help! Unfortunately none of that made any difference. It seems like it must be a bug on the Guardian's end. I can't find anything about in on the net but it's a big world out there...

So I'll keep digging around. Wish me luck.

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