236979 - page reloads constantly, unable to read page.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 178595

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Altus Momberg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

When I load any article on the washington post website, the page reloads
constantly and I am unable to read the story. I think it has something to do
with the ads on the page as everytime it reloads, there is a new ad.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.when i load the page, it starts reloading immediatly
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Expected Results:  
the page should load once.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040220
Firefox/0.8.0+ (scragz)

Can you try with a clean profile and perhaps a current build? Do you have any
ad-blocker or any other software running which listens the network traffic? Can
you produce it with another user profile from windows?

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

I just see a registration page, i guess that, this is not the page with the issue

Comment 3

[Wayne Woods]

Almost all reports of this kind of thing happening in the past have turned out
to be the result of bad themes or extensions (don't ask me why). So try checking
if you have any browser extensions or browser themes installed (you should just
have the Firebird(default) theme). If so, disable them and see if it goes away.

Comment 4

[Altus Momberg]

Yep, I uninstalled a new theme and the prblom disappeared.

Thanks

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Wayne, from where do you know that? Do we have a bug report of that case? I
can't find anything in Bugzilla. 

Comment 6

[José Jeria]

Based on reporters comment

Comment 7

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

*** Bug 235771 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Wayne Woods]

See bug 178595. The washingtonpost.com problem was reported several times :)

Comment 9

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

According to comment 8 setting this bug as dupe of bug 178595.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 178595 ***