Re: Retrieving a webpages shows a blank screen when a 4xx HTTP status is returned. Not helpfull.

On 20 Jan 2021 at 17:35, R.Wieser wrote:

> Wolf,
> 
> > I suppose you've disabled security extensions to see if one them is 
> > messing with download?
> 
> 1) no (security) extensions.  Just two add-ons.  Neither of which are 
> security related.
> 
> 2) not a download, just a regular webpage.
> 
> I thought of asking you how either of them would be able to mess with 
> /displaying/ the HTTP status code, but I don't think you would know either ...
> 
> > Could also be that it's time to ditch both XP and FF52. Just sayin'.
> 
> Personally I think its a waste of good money to ditch something that still does
> everything I need it for just because there is something newer.   Oh well, the
> sign of the bling-bling/gadget generation, amirite ?   :-)
>
My approach exactly, which is why I use those two, too. I doubt if my 
13-year-old machine could cope with any more recent version of Windows even if 
I wanted it. If/when I need to change I will probably have to make the effort 
to learn some flavour of Linux, although which would be best I don't know - 
possibly Tails if it isn't a difficult one to use and enables me to in some way 
continue to use certain existing applications. It won't run on my 32-bit 
machine so I can't try it out yet.

Jim Fisher