Firefox/Iceweasel can't display slides in slide show.

jdkaye · 05-19-2014, 03:18 AM

Dramatis Personae: Iceweasel (24.5) and Firefox (29.0.1)
Webpage in question: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...s-9393092.html

There are a series of slides. The mozilla browsers mentioned above show the first three slides and then block any further action. Clicking the right-arrow or the pictures below have no effect at all. Google Chrome and Opera work correctly with the same page. My GF's system also running Iceweasel (24.5) has the same problem.

Any ideas about what's causing this and what will fix it, if anything.
Thanks,
jdk

k3lt01 · 05-19-2014, 03:36 AM

I'm using Wheezy with Iceweasel 29.0.1 and the first set of slides all worked fine, after I got to Angelina Jolie (pic 10 of 50) in the 2nd group I stopped. It seems fine here, sorry I can't be of more help.

jdkaye · 05-19-2014, 04:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by k3lt01

I'm using Wheezy with Iceweasel 29.0.1 and the first set of slides all worked fine, after I got to Angelina Jolie (pic 10 of 50) in the 2nd group I stopped. It seems fine here, sorry I can't be of more help.

Thanks k3lt01,
I suspect it's one of my many installed extensions (AdBlock Plus, HTTPS-Everywhere, DoNotTrackMe, etc.) that's the culprit.
Any further info from anyone would be most welcome.
jdk

jefro · 05-19-2014, 03:17 PM

I'd guess a script error but might be an ad next slide.

If you see slide two and it has an address line that has a 2 near the end you may try to put higher numbers in. In some cases you can see the next line in hover or info at bottom of screen as to what the next page is.

I can't see the page in question due to noscript.

jdkaye · 05-19-2014, 11:36 PM

Thanks,
If I start, not from slide 1, but from slide x (where x >= 3) then I can see slide x and x+1 but then it freezes after that.
Don't know if this is helpful but here's a chunk of the code from the script.

Code:

<div id="gallery-9393035" class="esi-gallery rendered" data-galleryid="9393035">

    <div class="esi-gallery-loading-div" style="display: none;"> … </div>
    <div class="esi-gallery-wrapper hide" style="display: block;">
        <div class="esi-gallery-dimmer" style="display: block; opacity: 0.7;"></div>
        <div class="esi-gallery-slides-container">
            <div class="esi-gallery-slides-title"> … </div>
            <span class="esi-gallery-slide-counter"> … </span>
            <div class="esi-gallery-slides-wrapper" data-defaultheight="575" style="height: 575px;">
                <ul class="esi-gallery-slides" style="width: 5720px; transform: translateX(-2200px);">
                    <li class="esi-gallery-slide" data-slide="0" style="float: left; width: 440px; height: 575px; line-height: 575px;"> … </li>
                    <li class="esi-gallery-slide" data-slide="1" style="float: left; width: 440px; height: 575px; line-height: 575px;"> … </li>
                    <li class="esi-gallery-slide" data-slide="2" style="float: left; width: 440px; height: 575px; line-height: 575px;"> … </li>
                    <li class="esi-gallery-slide" data-slide="3" style="float: left; width: 440px; height: 575px; line-height: 575px;"> … </li>
                    <li class="esi-gallery-slide" data-slide="4" style="float: left; width: 440px; height: 575px; line-height: 575px;"> … </li>
                    <li class="esi-gallery-slide active" data-slide="5" style="float: left; width: 440px; height: 575px; line-height: 575px;">
                        <img data-originalimageheight="2048" data-originalimagewidth="1424" alt="Cilla Black" data-src="http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9394208.ece/alternates/w1024/Cilla-Black.jpg" src="http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9394208.ece/alternates/w1024/Cilla-Black.jpg" style="height: 573px; width: 399.805px;"></img>
                    </li>
                    <li class="esi-gallery-slide" data-slide="6" style="float: left; width: 440px; height: 575px; line-height: 575px;"> … </li>
                    <li class="esi-gallery-slide" data-slide="7" style="float: left; width: 440px; height: 575px; line-height: 575px;"> … </li>
                    <li class="esi-gallery-slide" data-slide="8" style="float: left; width: 440px; height: 575px; line-height: 575px;"> … </li>
                    <li class="esi-gallery-slide" data-slide="

???
jdk

John VV · 05-19-2014, 11:58 PM

for sites like that , you need to disable
No-script
Ad Block plus
Ghostery
allow cookies to install
and some times turn back on "java script"
and for some turn off the default firefox "block pop up windows"
and so on

that is NOT something i would do , so that site will NOT be getting my business

273 · 05-20-2014, 01:19 AM

Indeed, I just tried to see the slide show in Firefox 32 and I can't even get past the first slide even after allowing scripts from 18 different domains to run. I would put it down to a web designer more interested in generating click streams than producing a page that works. Pages like that are pretty much asking to become hosts to malware.

Edit: It doesn't work in Chromium in "incognito" (the only way I run it) so I think it's likely down to cookies.

jdkaye · 05-20-2014, 01:23 PM

@John VV & 273
Thanks gentlemen. It's comforting to know that the problem can be replicated. The Indie is not my favourite nor even regular haunt so I can live without the click thingy.

BTW the Guardian isn't much better; I can't play any of the video's on that site. I get this message:

Quote:

Error loading plugin:
Plugin file not found

I suspect this is also due to my AdBlocker.
cheers,
jdk

frankbell · 05-20-2014, 09:30 PM

With Opera (with the Notscript add-on) I was able to view all of both sets of slides.

With Iceweasel (with the no-script "Allow all on this page" option selected), I duplicated OP's problem.

I'm running Debian Sid.

k3lt01 · 05-20-2014, 10:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankbell

With Opera (with the Notscript add-on) I was able to view all of both sets of slides.

With Iceweasel (with the no-script "Allow all on this page" option selected), I duplicated OP's problem.

I'm running Debian Sid.

What about Firefox in other non Debian systems, does that do the same thing?

frankbell · 05-21-2014, 08:32 PM

I was able to view all the slides in Firefox 24.5 on a new install of Mageia 4 both without noscript and with noscript set to "Accept All on This Page."

jdkaye · 05-21-2014, 11:26 PM

Hmmm. I don't think I have noscript installed. Can you remind me where the setting "set to 'Accept All on This Page.'" can be found.
Thanks,
jdk

frankbell · 05-22-2014, 07:47 PM

When noscript is installed and you go to a page with scripts, it be default will display a dialog along the bottom of the windows with an "Options" button. Clicking that button pops up a list. "Allow all on this page" is one of the options.

I first got script-blockers when Google bought "Mobi" and that awful Mobi dialog bar started to appear at the bottom of many newspaper sites (I'm a news junkie).

jdkaye · 05-23-2014, 12:51 AM

Thanks Frank,
Well assuming that Noscript is an add-on, I don't have it installed so it must be one of my other add-ons that's causing this behaviour.
jdk