[outages] OT: Weird problem with Firefox & G+

[Matthew Petach]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster at mykolab.com>wrote:

>
> Following up on this...
>
> It appears AdBlock Plus is the culprit here:
>
> https://plus.google.com/**116028828272319130998/posts/**doopZKh1G3u<https://plus.google.com/116028828272319130998/posts/doopZKh1G3u>
>

Appropriately enough, that url shows up as a
blank page in my browser.  ^_^;

Seems like the author might have done well
to post the fix to somewhere *other* than the
site having the problem to begin with.  :D

Matt


>
> So either adding an exception for plus.google.com or simply disabling
> for that specific property "fixes" the problem.
>
> FYI,
>
> - ferg
>
>
>
> On 9/22/2013 11:28 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
>
>  Pardon the off-topic post, but...
>>
>> For some bizarre reason, Google+ started giving me an "invisible" page
>> after logging in this morning. It starts off fine, but then after
>> pulling content from ssl.gstatic.com and *.googleusercontent.com, etc.,
>> it then goes "invisible".
>>
>> This is with Firefox 24.0 -- I have, one by one, unloaded and restarted
>> Firefox with various plugins disabled (e.g. NoScript, HTTPS Everywhere,
>> etc.) and the problem persists.
>>
>> There *is* content there, it is just "invisible" (e.g. body {
>>            visibility: hidden;
>>          })
>>
>> ...and seems to work fine in IE (not my browser of choice).
>>
>> Just curious if anyone else running Firefox 24.0 has run into this
>> problem today on G+, or if Google made some sort of "enhancement" which
>> manifests itself this way.
>>
>> All other Google property pages work fine, just G+ has exhibited this
>> behavior today.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - ferg
>>
>>
>>
>
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