297996 - Firefox on OS X does not properly load any pages on latimes.com

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Greg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

When navigating to http://www.latimes.com, the page is not displayed, rather I get an error message:

"Error

Sorry, the page you requested is not available.

Please use the site map or do a site search (using the box at the top left of this page) to find current 
latimes.com content. Or, visit our home page for the latest news and information. Or, search our 
Archives for previously published stories.

If you have any questions, please contact Archives Research at 1-800-788-8804 or e-mail us at 
[e-mail]
Online Newspapers"



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.latimes.com
2. Watch no content load, but error page is displayed (as indicated above)
3.

Actual Results:  
Saw error page

Expected Results:  
Loaded current front page

This page used to work properly.  I think they may have changed something about their page layout 
that borke it.

Note that I do *not* see this problem on other OS'es (WinXP, FC3, SuSE 9.2).

Comment 1

[Patrick]

may've been a fluke. But just to be sure, can you retest with a recent nightly
build?

Site wfm with a last night's nightly Firefox trunk on OS X Tiger.

Comment 2

[Greg]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en)
AppleWebKit/312.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US;
rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
> 
> When navigating to http://www.latimes.com, the page is not displayed, rather I
get an error message:
> 
> "Error
> 
> Sorry, the page you requested is not available.
> 
> Please use the site map or do a site search (using the box at the top left of
this page) to find current 
> latimes.com content. Or, visit our home page for the latest news and
information. Or, search our 
> Archives for previously published stories.
> 
> If you have any questions, please contact Archives Research at 1-800-788-8804
or e-mail us at 
> [e-mail]
> Online Newspapers"
> 
> 
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Go to http://www.latimes.com
> 2. Watch no content load, but error page is displayed (as indicated above)
> 3.
> 
> Actual Results:  
> Saw error page
> 
> Expected Results:  
> Loaded current front page
> 
> This page used to work properly.  I think they may have changed something
about their page layout 
> that borke it.
> 
> Note that I do *not* see this problem on other OS'es (WinXP, FC3, SuSE 9.2).


I just got the latest DeerPark nightly, and I'm still seeing the same behavior.
 ON a whim I also cleared all of my history information, but no change

Comment 3

[Patrick]

are you using any extensions/themes or otherwise "fancy" stuff that may the
cause? Any network related custom-settings?

In other words, can you check with a clean profile/without extensions?

Comment 4

[Greg]

Tried viewing with default theme (I don't have any extensions installed) and
still no dice.  

Don't think it's related to my network config, as I haven't changed that in a
while and it used to load properly.  

Comment 5

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Greg, can you still reproduce this? If so, can you be sure you can reproduce it using Firefox 2.0.0.3 with a clean profile?

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager

Comment 6

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Closing this bug as WORKSFORME. The pages on latimes.com work fine for me with Firefox 2.0.0.3. If you're still able to reproduce, please comment with more information and reopen.

Comment 7

[Greg]

Works for me now -- I believe that it was fixed a while ago.  Recommend closing.