Is Twitter Down? If You are Using FireFox and ‘No Script’ It May Seem So.   - 842 Views, 1 Comment

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If you are using FireFox and the No Script add-on, you may find that you have trouble accessing Twitter. In fact, it may seem as if Twitter is down, because you will be unable to access Twitter while your browser just waits and waits.

What exactly the problem is, is not yet known. It has been suggested that it is scripts in user profiles that may be causing the issue - in other words, if you use Firefox to go to a Twitter profile which has a script embedded in it, and you are running the No Script add-on, then the page will never fully load.

However, we have tested this with profiles we know do not have any scripts embedded in them - at least not of which the user is aware - and the page still wouldn’t load.

Until we removed the No Script add-on from Firefox.

Then everything was fine.

Of course, removing the No Script add-on is not without its issues - primarily that you are then no longer afforded the protection that No Script provides against your browser being hijacked by, well, scripts.

Hopefully Twitter can get to the bottom of this and get it fixed.

Is Twitter Down? If You are Using FireFox and ‘No Script’ It May Seem So.

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