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Firefox breaks NOAA graphical display

Bill3 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:03:30 GMT

The NOAA site graphical display now disappears when zoomed in. site: cnrfc.noaa.gov/

Re: Firefox breaks NOAA graphical display

dftf — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:38:32 GMT

@Bill3 : is that definitely the correct website address? I've tried going to it on two different devices, and they both come up with a "DNS error, server not found".

According to onlineornot, their test servers from around the world all report it as being down too:
https://onlineornot.com/website-down-checker?requestId=PgEVKZoUBXySwzO_TQIL7&url=https://cnrfc.noaa.gov

Can you perhaps check the address is correct, or check this isn't an internal website only people within your company, or connected remotely via a VPN, can access.

Re: Firefox breaks NOAA graphical display

Bill3 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:47:57 GMT

I'm using ver. 115.43.1esr (64-bit) This website is active and loads. Here's the entire url https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/?product=none

Re: Firefox breaks NOAA graphical display

dftf — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:29:27 GMT

Thanks: as I'm not familiar with that site, didn't know "www." would be needed before the rest.

Using the latest Firefox 158.0.1 on Windows 10 22H2, it seems fine at different zoom-levels, from what I can tell (as I say, I've never used that site before to know what "normal" would be):

I'd suggest one of a few things you could try:

First, make sure an extension isn't causing this issue. Tap ALT to show the old menu-bar, then click the Help menu and look for either "Safe Mode" or "Troubleshoot Mode". Test the site in there and if zoom-in and zoom-out work correctly, an extension in your usual mode is causing the issue.

Second: tap ALT then on the "View" menu, make sure "Page Style" is set to "Basic Page Style", then on the "Zoom" option, by-default "Zoom Text Only" should not have a checkmark by it. However, you could try turning that on, and see if that helps (then only the text will get bigger, not graphics).

Third: if nothing helps, it may just be that the site has code too-new for Firefox 115 ESR to support; remember the ESR versions only get security-updates, but no engine updates, so eventually sites will stop working in them. As the 115 ESR is currently set to only get updates until late-March next year (unless Mozilla announce another extension), then you might want to look into "Supermium", a port of fairly-recent Google Chrome versions back to Windows 8, 7, Vista and XP:
https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/releases

There's also Pale Moon, which looks like a very-old version of Firefox, and thesedays uses
a different engine (so may cause issues on some sites -- but it has a "portable version", so
you can unzip it to a folder, and so easily test it without doing an install):
https://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml