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Twitter problems?

Unread post by pmBill » 2021-04-02, 20:33

Today Twitter isn't loading their page and is giving me the error message:

"Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot."

with a Try Again button. It's not working. (worked last night)

I tried it on latest Firefox and it works fine.

29.1.1 32b on 64b WIndows 10

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Re: Twitter problems?

Unread post by Plume » 2021-04-02, 20:39

I had the same problem suddenly occur, and it was fixed by changing the useragent override for twitter.
In about: config find general.useragent.override.twitter.com
I changed it to this value:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

which works for me. It was a string i had listed for another site, I have no idea if it's a good one or if there are better ways of solving the problem. But it worked for me.

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Re: Twitter problems?

Unread post by Morten79 » 2021-04-02, 20:51

I had the same issue with twitter today, fortunately the solution was simple. Thank you very much Plume.

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Re: Twitter problems?

Unread post by Moonchild » 2021-04-02, 21:25

And for the third thread in an hour...

Apparently more Live A/B testing
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Re: Twitter problems?

Unread post by pmBill » 2021-04-03, 07:15

Thanks.

Changed it from: Mozilla/5.0 (%OS_SLICE% rv:86.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/86.0

To: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

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Re: Twitter problems?

Unread post by timw7 » 2021-04-03, 10:03

Plume wrote:
2021-04-02, 20:39
I had the same problem suddenly occur, and it was fixed by changing the useragent override for twitter.
In about: config find general.useragent.override.twitter.com
I changed it to this value:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

which works for me. It was a string i had listed for another site, I have no idea if it's a good one or if there are better ways of solving the problem. But it worked for me.
Thank you; this worked perfectly for me.

Can someone explain why it works.

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Re: Twitter problems?

Unread post by Corrine » 2021-04-04, 22:40

Thank you, Plume, for the about:config change.
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Re: Twitter problems?

Unread post by BlakeyRat » 2021-04-05, 00:00

pmBill wrote:
2021-04-02, 20:33
Today Twitter isn't loading their page and is giving me the error message:

"Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot."

with a Try Again button. It's not working. (worked last night)
I noticed the same thing but I don't use Twitter very much so I just thought Twitter might be down. 2 days later I was still getting the same error, so I tried Firefox and it worked fine. Apparently Twitter did something that breaks Palemoon?

As someone else pointed out, you can fix the problem by adding a useragent.override

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Re: Twitter problems?

Unread post by coffeebreak » 2021-04-05, 00:21

fix the problem by adding a useragent.override
See also here.

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