[SOLVED] Firefox and website menus

[aguador]

I have searched a bit on the forum, but must confess that I am not sure what keywords to search so please tell me if this has been covered in another post.

Using Firefox 24 under Mageia 3 KDE on a 64/bit Asus A53S I find that I am not able to get drop-down menus to function, for example, the airport lists and calendar at http://www.usairways.com. These menus function with Firefox 26 running under Linux Mint on my netbook and under Solydx and Solydk running Firefox 25 on the Asus from a Live USB. All configurations have OpenJDK installed and all versions of Firefox have the flash plugin.

I might also add that I also visited a site with access to TV series and was unable to view them in Mageia while all the other OSs work without problem. (Note that normal flash video DO work properly in Mageia.)

What am I missing in the Mageia configuration?

[doktor5000]

Using Firefox 24 under Mageia 3 KDE on a 64/bit Asus A53S I find that I am not able to get drop-down menus to function, for example, the airport lists and calendar at http://www.usairways.com.

Neither flash nor java are required for the dropdown menus. Do you have any other addons installed, or did you maybe disable javascript?
Try again with firefox in safe mode: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tr ... -safe-mode
Also, did you import old firefox settings or did you create a fresh profile?

I might also add that I also visited a site with access to TV series and was unable to view them in Mageia while all the other OSs work without problem. (Note that normal flash video DO work properly in Mageia.)

What am I missing in the Mageia configuration?

If you don't provide a link to that site to reproduce the issue, probably nobody can tell.

[jiml8]

Those drop-down menus will be javascript. If they are not working, you either have javascript disabled, or you are blocking scripts from running via a plugin.

Speaking for myself, I never allow any scripts to run by default, and I enable them one by one as necessary to permit the site to function. I do this with the noscript plugin in Firefox.

[aguador]

Many thanks to you both. I am a bit redfaced as I should have known enough to check the plugins.

I am running the Ghostery extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/) which I love for its blocking of trackers. Given its function, it should have been the first thing I looked at.

Although the US Airways menus may be done without Java (which would explain why sites such as http://www.renfe.es work without problems), the site does state that Java is needed -- so perhaps theirs ARE written in Java. (I recall now that the menus refused to work on a Win7 system where Java was not installed.) Whether Java or not, Ghostery manages to block something more than the one of two trackers it lists for the site. Pausing Ghostery solved both the menu and the video issues mentioned in the original post.

Again many thanks -- and double apologies from someone who should have known where to look and how to solve the "problem"!

[doktor5000]

Java != Javascript.