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Old October 11th 18, 11:19 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Bill in Co
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Default Firefox can't load the Samsung website?

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Bill in Co
writes:
Thanks everyone. I found the culprit. It was due to my using an old
version of Adblock Plus. The one-by-one disabling of add ons nailed it.

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loads but then immediately reverts to a blank web page (with no error []
https://www.samsung.com/us/

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Glad you found the culprit. FWIW, I get something that looks plausible -
certainly not blank - with my FF 27.0.1 (with some version of ABP that
works with it).

Main reason for posting though: I often see this "one-by-one disabling"
mentioned. If you have more than a very small number of add-ons, a
binary search will find the culprit in fewer steps than one by one: if
you have eight add-ons, it will find it in three steps, rather than up
to seven. (Make a note of which ones you disable though, as FF reorders
them when some are disabled.) Since disabling/re-enabling add-ons often
requires a restart of Firefox, the fewer steps the better.
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Good point. I didn't feel I had quite have enough to use a binary search,
but it sure is a good idea in some cases. And in my case, I pretty much
knew some of my add ons wouldn't likely be related to the issue at hand.


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