[PLUG] Using Firefox to view listings for Xfinity

[Tomas Kuchta]

My unfounded guess would be that Comcast checks for some DRM not available
or disabled in (your) linux/browser.

If that is the case, you will not be able to work around with user agent.

-T

On Sun, Jul 13, 2025, 21:18 King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at linuxgalaxy.org>
wrote:

> On 7/13/25 17:22, Dick Steffens wrote:
> > On 7/13/25 16:44, Michael Ewan wrote:
> >> How about the developers console in the browser and look for what
> >> Xfinity expects to see, it used to be that you could fake all kinds of
> >> stuff in the browser to fool the IE only sites.
> >>
> > In Firefox, clicking on the hamburger icon > more tools offers Browser
> > Console. That brings up the following:
> >
> >
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 1752452115816 addons.xpi WARN Force scan SCOPE_PROFILE
> > (app-system-addons location missing from XPIStates)
> > 1752452115819 addons.xpi WARN Checking
> > /snap/firefox/6495/usr/lib/firefox/distribution/extensions for addons
> > 1752452115820 addons.xpi WARN Checking
> > /snap/firefox/6495/usr/lib/firefox/distribution/extensions/locale-en-US
> > for addons
> > HTTPS-First Mode: Upgrading insecure speculative TCP connection
> > “http://www.jigzone.com/ <http://www.jigzone.com/>” to use “https”.
> >
> > WebGL context was lost. 2 Troubleshoot.sys.mjs:727:17
> >
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > That looks like something that could be useful, but I have no idea what
> > to do with it. Recommendations?
> >
> >
>
> Jigzone.com is a jigsaw puzzle game.  I wager its its trying to load a
> plugin or advertizement ?
>
> The WebGL issue could be that you have webgl disabled or javascript
> disabled.  You can check by opening
>
> about:config
>
> These days a bunch of stuff breaks on the web unless you unleash the
> horror that is javascript.
>
> -Ed
>
>
>