959783 - The Verge mobile site not loading in Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I keep clicking links to The Verge on Android and they don't load in Firefox. The same problem manifests in desktop Firefox if you try to load the mobile page. Compare:
http://mobile.theverge.com/2014/1/13/5305282/google-purchases-nest-for-3-2-billion (loads a banner ad, then just sits waiting for more data)
http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/13/5305282/google-purchases-nest-for-3-2-billion (loads fine)

The mobile site loads fine in desktop Chrome, so I think this is probably on their end.

Comment 1

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

I have tested both on Firefox for Android and Firefox OS (version 26) and I had no issue. 
Could someone else test too and close it with WORKSFORME. 

ted, do you still see the issue. Erase Cookies and data before.

Comment 2

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

so adam has tested and it seems it is working for him too. 
Reopen if there are more details about the issue.

Comment 3

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Also WFM. Possibly a network hiccup or dependency on a sluggish ad script?

Comment 4

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I'm still seeing the issue, even on a fresh profile. It reproduces on all my machines. It's possible it's something specific to my ISP.

I just opened the web console on the page, and I see:
" [  0.002s] [studio.sdk] 
" Enabler.js:98
" [  1.004s] [studio.sdk] Using default ad parameters in test environment. Simulating local events.
"

Do you see that on a successful page load?

Comment 5

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

On a test profile with AdBlock installed things load successfully, so it must be ad-related somehow.

Comment 6

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Hmm, there might be something going on indeed. Forgot about AdBlock (>_>), with that disabled it sort of looks like there's a stray document.write() blowing away the page and then I get NSL, "Transferring data from (some ad URL)".

The console looks kind of crazy too, in Nightly. It shows me reloading the page from "wyciwyg://7/http://mobile.theverge.com/" after the page is overwritten.

I'll see if I can take a closer look tomorrow.

Comment 7

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

OK, today I can't reproduce, which makes me think there was some misbehaving ad script yesterday that's been fixed.

How does it look for you Ted?

Comment 8

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

This works for me now. It probably was a buggy ad script.

Comment 9

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Thanks Ted, glad to hear it's working for you now.