[PLUG] Using Firefox to view listings for Xfinity

[Vince Winter]

Also update your user agent version number. Current (for my system) is
139.0.1, latest not from package manager is 140.0.4.

Vince Winter, Technology Sorcerer of the Adept Circle

On Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 10:14 AM Vince Winter <thine.technocrat at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>