When I am in private browsing, one of my saved websites will not open. It will open when I am not in private browsing.
This has never happened before with this particular website. I am not sure why the page comes up blank in private browsing, but will appear when not in private browsing. It is a large, well-know company website.
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A couple versions ago, Firefox added a Tracking Protection feature in private windows. This will affect some sites in strange ways when they use various third party companies in the rendering of their page (for example, using tracking scripts on the links in the page). If you see a "shield" icon to the left of the address, then tracking protection is being applied to the page. Please see the following article for more information about this feature and making exceptions for sites: What happened to Tracking Protection?.
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Hello,
To find the correct solution to your problem, we need some more non-personal information from you. Please do the following:
- Use ONE of these methods to open the Firefox Troubleshooting Information page:
- Click the menu button , click on help and select Troubleshooting Information.
- Type about:support into the Firefox address bar and press the enter key.
- At the top of the Troubleshooting Information page that comes up, you should see a button that says "Copy text to clipboard". Click it.
- Now, go back to your forum post, right-click in the reply box and select Paste from the context menu (or else click inside the reply box and press the Ctrl+V keys) to paste all the information you copied into the forum post.
If you need further information about the Troubleshooting information page, please read the article Use the Troubleshooting Information page to help fix Firefox issues.
Thanks in advance for your help!
الحل المُختار
A couple versions ago, Firefox added a Tracking Protection feature in private windows. This will affect some sites in strange ways when they use various third party companies in the rendering of their page (for example, using tracking scripts on the links in the page). If you see a "shield" icon to the left of the address, then tracking protection is being applied to the page. Please see the following article for more information about this feature and making exceptions for sites: What happened to Tracking Protection?.
Thank you - I believe you are correct about the tracking thing. I tried disabling it and the website appeared. But I wonder why it has never happened before - I have been blocking tracking for a long time.
Hi susanjock, maybe the tracking list was updated and now blocks a third party service that is especially important to this particular site? Unfortunately, Tracking Protection doesn't let you pick and choose which tracking services to block individually.