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What a curious page; just blank-white in Firefox 46.0 on Linux with this output in the console:

"You have google analytics blocked. We understand. Take a look at our privacy policy to see how we handle your data."

You need to have JavaScript enabled to use the site

That may be, but the error is still terrible.

Huh... I'm on Chrome in Windows 10, and I have Google Analytics blocked, and the rest of the page loads fine for me.

Yeah, the site is templated client-side using Ampersand (though lmorchard keeps threatening to rewrite it in React as a weekend project). Should work fine with tracking disabled, but won't work at all without JS.

Oh wow, this is one of the simple designs which only needs HTML and CSS, no JS at all to work, I wonder why they chose to do it this way.

As do i, so i reported it as a bug: https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot/issues/774

It looks simple, but it actually does a lot of communication behind the scenes via JS with an add-on installed in the browser. Also, someday, this whole web app may end up embedded in Firefox itself.

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