I feel like an idiot
It's not the first time I've discovered something painfully obvious (like when I discovered PSP had a image mapping/slicing feature built right in), but this is both a bit embarrassing and a big relief.
See, one of
erin_hime's sites, Angela Dea, was somehow inaccessible to me when I used Firefox. I didn't even see a little preview pic on the main site, so I wondered why she hadn't gotten around to it.
Fast forward to today, when I am just noticing that IE has a new icon (the swoop around the e is now an orange colour, making it look a fire trail or something) because I upgraded to version 7 yesterday, despite the fact that I pretty much never use it anymore. Intrigued, I open it up (the interface is new, and holy crap, they now apparently have tabbed browsing; it's about time). After checking the settings, I go to Erin's main index page on a whim, and lo and behold...there is a preview there. Wondering what's going on, I go back to Firefox and check to see if she updated it recently, even going so far as to check the source code, determine there is an image there, and refresh a few times.
Then it struck me. See, I have the AdBlock plugin for Firefox, which makes browsing exponetially easier. However, it also has the annoying side-effect of occasionally blocking innocent sites that I want to see. Say, for example, I want to see a picture listed under a folder called uploads -- since the string ad (and ads) appears in the name, the filter automatically blocks it, and the only thing I can do is to whitelist the whole page, showing me the image and all other ads on the page. (This goes away when I refresh).
I think you can guess where I'm heading with this. Well, the site's title is Angela Dea, abbreviated AD. The preview image was called something like adpreview -- well, it has the word ad in it, it must be an ad! GO GO ADBLOCK! Yes, that's right. AdBlock was blocking not only that little preview image, but pretty much the whole site because the subdomain was, wait for it, /AD. That explains why I only saw a white screen in Firefox. Head, meet desk.
Needless to say, I whitelisted the whole site (meaning either ds10.org or the findingfate subdomain; there's no ads on either so AdBlock is rather useless) so now everything works perfectly fine. And to think I thought Firefox was messing up.
Yes, I feel like an idiot.
See, one of
erin_hime's sites, Angela Dea, was somehow inaccessible to me when I used Firefox. I didn't even see a little preview pic on the main site, so I wondered why she hadn't gotten around to it.
Fast forward to today, when I am just noticing that IE has a new icon (the swoop around the e is now an orange colour, making it look a fire trail or something) because I upgraded to version 7 yesterday, despite the fact that I pretty much never use it anymore. Intrigued, I open it up (the interface is new, and holy crap, they now apparently have tabbed browsing; it's about time). After checking the settings, I go to Erin's main index page on a whim, and lo and behold...there is a preview there. Wondering what's going on, I go back to Firefox and check to see if she updated it recently, even going so far as to check the source code, determine there is an image there, and refresh a few times.
Then it struck me. See, I have the AdBlock plugin for Firefox, which makes browsing exponetially easier. However, it also has the annoying side-effect of occasionally blocking innocent sites that I want to see. Say, for example, I want to see a picture listed under a folder called uploads -- since the string ad (and ads) appears in the name, the filter automatically blocks it, and the only thing I can do is to whitelist the whole page, showing me the image and all other ads on the page. (This goes away when I refresh).
I think you can guess where I'm heading with this. Well, the site's title is Angela Dea, abbreviated AD. The preview image was called something like adpreview -- well, it has the word ad in it, it must be an ad! GO GO ADBLOCK! Yes, that's right. AdBlock was blocking not only that little preview image, but pretty much the whole site because the subdomain was, wait for it, /AD. That explains why I only saw a white screen in Firefox. Head, meet desk.
Needless to say, I whitelisted the whole site (meaning either ds10.org or the findingfate subdomain; there's no ads on either so AdBlock is rather useless) so now everything works perfectly fine. And to think I thought Firefox was messing up.
Yes, I feel like an idiot.