Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's up with Firefox?

[Kevin Thompson <phlux@ewnix.net>]

On Jul 4, 2013, at 10:29, Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:

> Sorry to be a nuisance but I can't think of where else to ask.
> 
> On the website I run I have a link to our Twitter profile (or whatever it's 
> called). This is the link:
> 
>    https://twitter.com/TideswellMVC
> 
> If I examine the page using the web host's file editor I see exactly that, 
> yet if I press CTRL-U in www-client/firefox-17.0.7 it shows this:
> 
>    https://twitter.com/#%21/TideswellMVC
> 
> and if I click the link in the main window I'm asked for a login and 
> password.
> 
> Trying the latest Windows version of Firefox in an XP virtual box I get the 
> unaltered link. I can't tell what version that is because "About Firefox" 
> merely checks, then tells me I'm up to date.
> 
> Incidentally, I have a web server running on my LAN with an identical copy 
> of the site. Using that as the target, rather than the public version, gives 
> the same results.
> 
> I haven't used JavaScript anywhere.
> 
> What's going on here?
> 
> -- 
> Peter
> 
> 

What architecture are you running this on? What USE flags are enabled with Firefox?