Difference between revisions of "Amazon.com Firefox Incompatibility"

Revision as of 13:10, 22 June 2015

ISSUE: images-amazon.com when enabled in NoScript cause Firefox slow to browse Amazon.com, constant refreshing, memory consumption increase, and instability.

From Amazon.com Forum

By Mr BigSpender, 17-Apr-2015 13:45 PDT

I'm now doing most of the online shopping on other websites because browsing through Amazon is a pain.The page keeps refreshing itself after it's completely loaded.The RAM usage spikes.A single Amazon page slows down the whole browser.I tried refreshing Firefox and using a new profile without addons but still had the issue.

• http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/forums/ref=cs_hc_g_tv?ie=UTF8&forumID=Fx1SKFFP8U1B6N5&cdThread=TxVL73574K2NOD

• Thank you J. Mackey ! I installed NoScript addon and blocked "images-amazon.com". I don't see images on the homepage now, but the images on other pages work just fine. I can search for products without an issue. The site is very quick now. No more buffering and constant loading. Thanks again !!!

• This appears to have been caused by an incompatibility in certain Firefox versions. I just updated from 38.0.1 to 38.0.5 and the problem immediately went away. I'd recommend anyone having trouble with loading javascript to try updating and see if it helps. It wasn't mentioned in the Firefox release notes but it appears to have fixed the issue. You still get the crazy, rapid page re-loading, but it doesn't continue indefinitely (it lasts about 5 seconds for me). Also, the browser doesn't slow to a crawl.

NOTE: Updating from 38.0.1 to 38.0.5 does not resolve issue. Once "images-amazon.com" is allowed in NoScript, every page begins to refresh constantly and browser slows down.

When images-amazon.com is blocked, the site is not fully functional. Wishlists no longer work correctly. Additional product images no longer work.

Enabling ssl-images-amazon.com is harmless, does not cause the refreshing issue. However, does not enable those broken features.