[PLUG] Using Firefox to view listings for Xfinity

[Vince Winter]

Check your time and date, Internet sites break in weird ways if your time
and date are significantly off.

Try clearing cookies and site data. I have to do this all the time with
appleTV streaming sites(I get it free from my phone service provider). It
breaks on the login cookie after a day.

What was the output in the dev console for the page?

Vince Winter, Technology Sorcerer of the Adept Circle

On Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 9:42 AM Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
>