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ancestry.com photos won't load!

Unread post by imaginejl » 2022-12-08, 22:31

There are no error codes. No photo/media loads but I can see thumbnails but when clicking the thumbnails, it won't load. So far that's the only problem I see on this browser? Is there a fix for this or is this ancestry.com's end?

P.S. Also I apologize ahead if this is the wrong place to ask this? FYI I have Autism, etc.

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Re: ancestry.com photos won't load!

Unread post by Kris_88 » 2022-12-09, 23:31

Try useragent override.
Go to the "about:config" page, create string preference
with the name: "general.useragent.override.ancestry.com"
and value: "Mozilla/5.0 (%OS_SLICE% rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0"

At least thumbnails on this page work for me.
https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/35/

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Re: ancestry.com photos won't load!

Unread post by imaginejl » 2022-12-31, 08:56

Sorry but that's way over my head..too advanced for me to understand what you're talking about. Is there a video tutorial on how to do that? Thanks anyway though.

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Re: ancestry.com photos won't load!

Unread post by jobbautista9 » 2022-12-31, 11:49

Here's my screen recording:
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Re: ancestry.com photos won't load!

Unread post by vannilla » 2023-01-02, 15:57

You can also use sasuga or PermissionsPlus to do the same with a dedicated GUI, if you don't want to deal with dragons.

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Re: ancestry.com photos won't load!

Unread post by jobbautista9 » 2023-01-03, 03:25

User Agent Status is also a good add-on for this ;)
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Re: ancestry.com photos won't load!

Unread post by vannilla » 2023-01-03, 10:57

jobbautista9 wrote:
2023-01-03, 03:25
User Agent Status is also a good add-on for this ;)
Off-topic:
True, I forgot about it. I should update my standard reply to SSUAO issues. :lol:

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