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

Dave Royal<[email protected]> Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:04:23 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
R.Wieser <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... but I think I found the reason, and you probably wont believe it : I 
> always, in about:config, disable JavaScript (I simply don't want to run 
> active content from random websites).    But on a hunch I re-enabled it. 
> And what do you know, the background script started to work (I saw some 
> 'console.log( )' messages appear in the the ctrl-shift-j 'Debugging 
> Window').
> 
> I'm trying to figure out if its simply a bug, or a "that looks like a good 
> idea" but they forgot to tell anyone about it ...
> 
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1329731>

I would expect disabling js to disable GM scripts as well as content
scripts.
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