New York Times TimesMachine Won't Display in PM Topic is solved

[dfleiss]

The New York Times has converted its archive from PDF copies of each article to a "TimesMachine" that lets readers see the full pages of past issues. Unfortunately, the TimesMachine won't load for me in Pale Moon, but it loads in IE 10.

I can load the main TimesMachine page, but when I click on anything I get a blank page. If I find a news article from the archive (this one, say) and click on the link to the TimesMachine, I get a blank page. As I wrote, it loads in IE.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

(A user ID and password are required to access past issues in the TimesMachine. If somebody thinks they can help but needs access, please let me know by private message and I will arrange a temporary user ID.)

Thank you.

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Operating system: Windows 7
Browser version: 27.9.3
32-bit or 64-bit?: 64
Problem URL: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser
Theme: Default
Installed extensions: [TEST] HTTPS Everywhere 2017.10.24, About:about Button 1.1.2.1-signed, about:config Buttons 1.1.3.1-signed (Disabled), Adblock Latitude 5.0.1, Add Bookmark Helper 1.0.3, Add-ons Button 1.1.2.1-signed, All Menus Button 1.1.3.1-signed, BackTrack Tab History 0.6.1.1-signed, Bookmark Manager Button 1.1.1, Classic Add-ons Archive 1.1.2, Classic Password Editor 1.0.3, Copy Plain Text 2 1.6, Download Manager (S3) 4.13, ErrorZilla Plus 1.2.4.2, Expose Noisy Tabs 1.1.0, Extension List Dumper 2 1.0.2, FaviconizeTab 1.1.0, Fire IE 0.4.6.2 (Disabled), FireFTP 2.0.32, Go Parent Folder 2.9.1.1-signed.1-signed, Greasemonkey for Pale Moon 3.31.1, Imagus 0.9.8.52, Moon PDF Viewer 1.0.2, Moon Tester Tool 1.1.6, Navigate Up 3.1, Open about:config 1.2, Open Google Contacts with toolbar button 0.2.1-signed.1-signed, Options Button 1.1.1, Pale Moon Commander 2.0.2, Pocket 3.0.6, Roomy Bookmarks Toolbar 1.4.4.1-signed, S3.Google Translator 5.35, Show my Password 2.0.1, Slim Add-ons Manager 10.1-signed, Tab Mix Plus 0.5.0.4, Tab Scope 1.6.1.1-signed.1-signed, Toolbarize Menu Button 1.1.1, URL Link 2.04.5
Installed plugins: Shockwave Flash 30.0.0.113, Silverlight Plug-In 5.1.50907.0

[Sajadi]

Does also not work in Pale Moon 28 - The reason is that page does not like the Pale Moon user agent. Using a Chrome/IE user agent override for this page makes it work in 28 Alpha - so perhaps that works also for the stable Pale Moon version as well.

[therube]

Yes, it does appear it will be a UA issue.

[dfleiss]

Thank you both. I set up a preference called general.useragent.override.timesmachine.nytimes.com with the following value and now the TimesMachine works.

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.9) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.9 (Pale Moon)