Annoyance

[aesmael]

    I have been having a very frustrating problem the past few months, in which some of my favourite blogs redirect to Twitter - something I never want to see again in all my life - making it impossible for me to read them. Just spent an afternoon testing my extensions on another computer and could not recreate the problem, so, does anyone have any thoughts on how I might solve this? I will try asking on a dedicated community once I have the energy to find one and be detailed.

    This is Firefox, by the way, and the computer having the problems is running (K)Ubuntu. The one I could not replicate it on uses Windows XP.

Comments

[taraxoxo.livejournal.com]

Computers are annoying, aren't they?

[open-other-end.livejournal.com]

Sample link?

[aesmael.livejournal.com]

This is one of the sites affected: http://www.badastronomy.com/
This is what it turns into: http://twitter.com/

I noticed today that he actually has a twitter plugin in his blog, which I could not see with this computer because it never lasted long enough (there is a very fine line of timing stopping loading between being unable to read and being sent to twitter). Perhaps it is a problem with Wordpress and that plugin. Should point out also I have NoScript installed and it provides no defence.

[lost-angelwings.livejournal.com]

Yus :\ I think it's the plugin. :O Is there a way you can get Firefox not to run plugins? :o

[open-other-end.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's a Flash or Java thing. I don't have a Flash/Java plugin (none exist for 'BSD). Sorry.

[aesmael.livejournal.com]

Flash! That could be it. I have been meaning to uninstall the non-functioning 'official' plugin and try gnash instead for a while now. I had better take care of that semi-immediately. Thank you.