Re: Facebook links

On 10 Oct 2015 as I do recall,
Chris Dewhurst wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> It used to be the case that when you clicked on links to external
> websites (e.g. when somone shares a BBC News story) it would stop at a
> blank screen and I used to have to manually edit the URL to get there.
>
> It seems the URL is now correctly parsed by Netsurf. I'm not sure what
> version this took effect from (I'm on Cl#2963) but I remember I
> mentioned the problem a couple of years ago.

My experience is that a small percentage of the time, for no obvious reason,
Facebook links work without JavaScript enabled. (You get sent to a
redirection screen instead of just getting a blank page full of JavaScript.)
On any given session, if they work then they continue to work until you log
out.

However, it's perfectly possible to log in again half an hour later from the
same computer running the same instantiation of Netsurf and find that they
have stopped working again. I've never been able to spot anything
specific that triggers it, and vaguely assumed that it depended which server
you got sent to at the other end....

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