Unable to access seekingalpha.com using Firefox today for first time ever but can using Chrome

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Maddog77
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Can't access the website on Firefox browser but can on Chrome.  This is the first time it has ever happened and I don't know of any changes to settings that I might have made that would cause this.  I accessed it without any problems yesterday.  I get an error message that says "Yikes Something went wrong" and it asks where do I want to go.  I clicked on Trending articles with no result then clicked on Market News which worked, then I clicked on "My Portfolio" and it returned to the same error message.

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NEOobserver

I am experiencing the same problem. I tried clearing cache, cookies and history, but that didn't seem to make any difference. I can access seekingalpha in a Firefox private window without problem. On the chance that it's relevant, I am running Ghostery on Firefox.

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Maddog77
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I am experiencing the same problem. I tried clearing cache, cookies and history, but that didn't seem to make any difference. I can access seekingalpha in a Firefox private window without problem. On the chance that it's relevant, I am running Ghostery on Firefox.

Thanks for the reply.  I am also running Ghostery.

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NEOobserver

I just disabled Ghostery in Firefox Add-ons and Themes. (I should have tried that before posting before, but didn't think of it.) The problem seems to have gone away. I also noticed that Ghostery doesn't seem to be active when I open a Firefox private window. It appears that some sort of interaction between Ghostery and seekingalpha may be the issue.

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Maddog77
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I just disabled Ghostery in Firefox Add-ons and Themes. (I should have tried that before posting before, but didn't think of it.) The problem seems to have gone away. I also noticed that Ghostery doesn't seem to be active when I open a Firefox private window. It appears that some sort of interaction between Ghostery and seekingalpha may be the issue.

Thanks!  I went to settings in Ghostery and made seekingalpha.com a trusted site and that solved the problem.

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NEOobserver
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Thanks!  I went to settings in Ghostery and made seekingalpha.com a trusted site and that solved the problem.

I've changed my Ghostery settings as well and I'm now good. Thanks!

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Investor Professor

I don't have ghostery and I can't login.  The login page says it can't login with Facebook.  But I don't login with Facebook.  It simply won't accept my email and pw.

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Investor Professor

Just found the problem.  Facebook Container (fence icon shown in toolbar) hides sites from Facebook to prevent Facebook tracking.  Click on the fence icon and allow FB to track SeekingAlpha.  Now can login.

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anonymous
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Just found the problem.  Facebook Container (fence icon shown in toolbar) hides sites from Facebook to prevent Facebook tracking.  Click on the fence icon and allow FB to track SeekingAlpha.  Now can login.

Can you tell me more exactly you mean by Facebook Container

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Bulbman

Believe the problem was a change in code to the script Facebook Connect  located at https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js.

Never used to be a problem and I don't want FB tracking me. Please fix it so I can return.

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Investor Professor
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Can you tell me more exactly you mean by Facebook Container

Facebook Container is an extension on Firefox.  Check your extensions under settings to see if you have it.  On my Firefox toolbar it appears as a fence icon. Other than that, I know nothing about it.