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Did you open it in a new tab? In an existing tab, it loads fine.

On reflection, it’s also quite possible this is a platform-specific bug. I’m on Linux. I think I experienced it in Windows a few years back, but the memory is fuzzy.

… hmm, apparently if I start a blank Firefox profile this doesn’t happen either. Though I know I’ve encountered this with at least two completely distinct Firefox profiles over the years. This bears closer investigation.

Anyway, it’s still indicative of the disrepair of this feature set. It’s still used widely enough that I don’t think it’ll be torn out, but honestly on technical robustness grounds it could warrant being removed.

It works fine for me, with a current FF on Linux (Ubuntu), opening in a new tab. I have lots of extensions enabled.

But I do share your frustration: the modern web seems unusable, unless you have a collection of extensions that block ads, annoying consent forms and the likes. But once you have these extensions installed, you basically lose all support.

Sometimes stuff breaks, and it works in a new profile even with the same extensions installed... and then what? You're supposed to throw away your profile with bookmarks, CAs, years of history etc.?

>But once you have these extensions installed, you basically lose all support.

Its gotten to the point where I have multiple browsers as fallback. FF with lots of essential extensions > Brave with just a few > Unextended Chromium. A necessarily ridiculous state of affairs, but there you have it.

Same for me, but without Brave as a middle ground. I think Firefox even without extensions is less and less supported, sadly.

Maybe try disabling your extensions?

Firefox is sometimes weird that way. I too have seen issues (with other stuff, not this particular xslt page) that randomly seem in only some profile.

It works for me if you open in a new tab, a new window, or a new private window. FF122.0 on windows.

works fine for me in a new tab also on chrome/ubuntu.

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