the browser/s missing a script/plugin ?

[Member number698]

hi, when viewing some news websites, the reader-comments section does not load, just shows a rotating cog.

fresh USB install,
16.3 works fine, loads/show the websites WITH reader-comments.
17.1 and 17.3 do not ???

• This topic was modified 6 days, 18 hours ago by number698.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

Which sites?

Maybe try with the adblock set to off (It is in the control centre)

• This reply was modified 6 days, 17 hours ago by anticapitalista.

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

[Member number698]

comments missing on all news stories from this site,
https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/

adblock was not set to block anything by default on my fresh USB live installs.

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

Might be a need to install JRE kinda problem.

Live does not come with JRE installed.

Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
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How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

JRE = Java runtime environment.

Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
Linux Registered User # 475019
How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

[Member skidoo]

(shouting because mentioned previously, both in replies posted to various topics, AND via repeated PMs)

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JRE aka JAVA is ______________NOT_____________ javascript (AKA ECMAScript)

.
“JAVA” APPLET CONTENT, BACK IN THE DAY, WOULD HAVE BEEN LOADED INTO THE BROWSER VIA A PLUGIN COMPONENT
(SAME AS EMBEDDED “SHOCKWAVE” CONTENT REQUIRED A PLUGIN)

THE LAST SURVIVING PLUGIN IS/WAS “FLASH”
CURRENT MAINSTREAM BROWSERS DO NOT PROVIDE, NOR SUPPORT, A PLUGIN NECESSARY TO DISPLAY EMBEDDED JAVA CONTENT

[Member number698]

NB: installed ‘openjdk-8-jre’ plus dependencies (MX-antix includes this – and the website comments show in MX-antix)

But this has not solved it in Antix 17.xx

also installed ‘default-jre’ plus dependencies, no change.

• This reply was modified 5 days, 18 hours ago by number698.

[Member skidoo]

cat /etc/hosts | wc

On this machine (without adblock entries present), the outupt is:

9 ___ 26 ___ 243

If that first number (9) is is significantly higher on your machine, you hosts file probably contains extra lines added by adblock ~~ regardless of the current state (enabled or not) of the adblock tool, an entry within the hosts file still may be blocking requests to the 3rd-party server providing content for the “comments” section of the affected webpage(s).

[Member number698]

antix 17.xx

$ cat /etc/hosts | wc
156827 320073 5257825

MX=antix 17.1

$ cat /etc/hosts | wc
10 26 236

if this sheds any light on the problem, it’s now beyond me.

• This reply was modified 5 days, 15 hours ago by number698.

[Member number698]

Hmmm, but antix 16 works OK, and its output is –

$ cat /etc/hosts | wc
29277 64556 864387

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

Disable antiX adblock – as I posted in my first reply – and then tell us if it makes any difference.

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

[Member skidoo]

In case, for some reason, adblock was interrupted and wasn’t to properly cleanup…

Manually running the following commandline will hopefully restore the original file:

sudo stat /etc/hosts.ORIGINAL && mv /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.bak && mv /etc/hosts.ORIGINAL /etc/hosts

[Member number698]

OK, solved – thanks.

FYI : sudo stat /etc/hosts.ORIGINAL && mv /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.bak && mv /etc/hosts.ORIGINAL /etc/hosts

failed – with output,

File: /etc/hosts.ORIGINAL
Size: 239 Blocks: 1 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 700h/1792d Inode: 1180 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r–r–) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2018-03-17 16:20:56.000000000 +0000
Modify: 2018-03-17 16:20:56.000000000 +0000
Change: 2018-03-17 16:20:56.000000000 +0000
Birth: –
mv: cannot move ‘/etc/hosts’ to ‘/etc/hosts.bak’: Permission denied

So then tried/fixed with,

su (my password/ENTER)
stat /etc/hosts.ORIGINAL && mv /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.bak && mv /etc/hosts.ORIGINAL /etc/hosts

with output,

File: /etc/hosts.ORIGINAL
Size: 239 Blocks: 1 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 700h/1792d Inode: 1180 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r–r–) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2018-03-17 16:20:56.000000000 +0000
Modify: 2018-03-17 16:20:56.000000000 +0000
Change: 2018-03-17 16:20:56.000000000 +0000
Birth: –

[Member number698]

skidoo wrote:

In case, for some reason, adblock was interrupted and wasn’t to properly cleanup…

Manually running the following commandline will hopefully restore the original file:

sudo stat /etc/hosts.ORIGINAL && mv /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.bak && mv /etc/hosts.ORIGINAL /etc/hosts

OK, that fixed it, thanks shidoo. (with adblock in firefox unticked too)

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