washingtonpost.com home page

[RichardB]

When Adblock Plus 1.0.2 is enabled in Firefox 3.0.10, the bottom half of the home page at http://www.washingtonpost.com/ is rendered incorrectly. That part of the page gets a blue background when it should get a white background. The page looks fine when Adblock Plus is disabled. Any suggestions?

[reepicheep]

When Adblock Plus 1.0.2 is enabled in Firefox 3.0.10, the bottom half of the home page at http://www.washingtonpost.com/ is rendered incorrectly. That part of the page gets a blue background when it should get a white background. The page looks fine when Adblock Plus is disabled. Any suggestions?

With ABP 1.0.2 and FF 3.0.10 on Mac OS X that page looks fine to me. Using (the late Rick752's) EasyList and EasyPrivacy subscriptions with a few personal filters.

[Wladimir Palant]

Some tips for investigating this issue: http://adblockplus.org/en/getting_start ... -positives

[RichardB]

Thank you, Reepicheep and Wladimir. I'm using just EasyList but I'm on Windows XP, so maybe that's why reepicheep and I get different results.

I found that the rule causing the problem was /wp-srv/ad/* and I fixed it by adding an exception for http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/ad/ad_v2.js .

I'm posting a note on the EasyList False Positives forum.

[Wladimir Palant]

It looks fine for me even though that script is blocked. Maybe washingtonpost.com serves different content to US visitors or something like this...

[RichardB]

Maybe washingtonpost.com serves different content to US visitors or something like this...

Bingo! The problem occurs with the local version of the home page. (I'm in the Washington area.) If I click the link at the top of the page for the U.S./World Home Page, there's no problem. The Washington Home Page shows the problem.