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I seem to be unable to view the blog post in Firefox, it automatically goes to https which doesn't load.

Maybe netflix messed up their HSTS settings at some point in the past?

I'm also experiencing the same (also using HTTPS everywhere). Disabling the extension doesn't seem to work.

If you get a solution, please let me know.

I found that Noscript was causing it.

The best solution is to go into Noscript options > advanced > HTTPS and add .netflix.com to "Never force secure".

The other way is to go into about:config and set noscript.httpsDefWhitelist to false. But that's less secure.

Ahhh! Thank you! That was my problem as well. I didn't even know NoScript was doing that. >:-(

Are you using HTTPS Everywhere? The Netflix blog post defaults to http for me. If I manually change to https, then it fails to load, as you describe.

No, I don't have it installed. But by testing addons, I figured out that Noscript is causing it.

It's weird because in its settings, there is nothing in the "force https website" list, and the "forbid http" section is set to never.

I just installed NoScript and I can reproduce the problem you see. :(