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Page doesn't seem to load at all on Firefox.

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Same for me, it appears that this URL is being blocked by FF. Is that was is causing the issue?

https://2542116.fls.doubleclick.net/activityi;src=2542116;ty...?

uBlock on Edge blocks that same URL and the page works fine without it.

I see that URL being blocked but the site still loads.

I just tested this on v114, v115, and nightly (117.0a1 (2023-07-31) (64-bit)) and couldn't reproduce.

On nightly, I tried setting Enhanced Tracking Protection to strict and installing uBlock Origin, and still couldn't get it to show a blank screen.

(MacOS 13.4.1)

I see the issue on 115.03 on Windows and MacOS.

https://i.imgur.com/XLfgy3K.png

Do you see any failing network requests in devtools, other than the doubleclick one?

No, I do not, FF on Win10: https://i.imgur.com/KfSAp57.png

I should add that on Safari, the content part of the page does take a long time to load or render.

I believe that I see you in the web-bugs issue, so to add more info, here is a safari screenshot with the crazy slow load time. I am getting 52Mbps from fast.com at the moment, rest of the web is snappy. In chrome it takes ~9.25s to finish rendering which is still slow compared to other sites imo.

Safari (MacOS 11.4 on late 2012 Mac Mini): https://i.imgur.com/iNo50sU.png

Also, regarding the comment in the report about it being geo related, I am in central EU, but I tried VPNing to the USA and same result.

I posted on the github thread - it looks like there is a visibilty: hidden; that never gets removed so the page looks blank even though all the elements are there.

https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/125193

FWIW, I filed a bug a few days ago for the issue I was seeing. A profile showed that Firefox was spending all of its time evaluating a regex. Which is weird because Chrome uses the same regex engine. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1845775

It loads a page with a large heading and no content in my Firefox. I'll just assume an empty page is Google's take on security in general.

Loads for me just fine on Firefox 116, on Linux.

Doesn't load for me (FF on Linux).

Are you using an ad blocker? Maybe try disabling your add-ons and reloading.

The site loads fine for me in Firefox 117 (Nightly) on macOS.

Doesn't load for me (115, macOS), but I do have uBlock Origin, which blocks two domains and some "3rd party" scripts. Google will always be Google, and I'm not going to unblock those.

Here's a mirror: https://archive.is/U8YTo

Same issue, doesn't load on vanilla Firefox.

Took a while to load in mobile Safari as well, but it did eventually when I waited a while. Interestingly it works almost immediately in desktop Safari?

Loaded fine first time for me

Goog must not. E acknowledging other browsers anymore.

It works fine for me on Android

It loads on Firefox on my Samsung phone.

It seems fine on my machine -- albeit a hair slow. Do you have JS enabled? I think it's required.

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