# What could be wrong with this website?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-be-wrong-with-this-website/621250>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 8, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-be-wrong-with-this-website/621250 "2012-05-08T05:20:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-be-wrong-with-this-website/621250/1 "2012-05-08T05:20:42Z")

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I’ve been trying to log onto a website I frequent, but I have a problem. They use a captcha to log in, but there IS no captcha there. When I click the “Audio” link, nothing happens. When I click “New Code,” a blank image placeholder appears, then immediately disappears.

They use javascript for both (javascript:xcap.refresh\_image(); and javascript:xcap.play\_audio()), and I have NoScript, but as far as I can tell, NoScript isn’t blocking anything on the site (I’ve logged in with my settings exactly this way before, and when I turn on script blocking notification, it doesn’t show anything).

I’m using Firefox 3, and would kind of prefer to keep using it, but if this is gonna be a problem that’s replicated on other sites, I may have to bite the bullet and update. But this is so sudden, I can’t imagine that’s the problem.

Anyone have any ideas I can try? Their support is kinda… slow.

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-be-wrong-with-this-website/621250/2 "2012-05-08T10:44:32Z")

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Sincere question: what’s the problem with upgrading? Set a restore point before you do it and you can always go back.

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-be-wrong-with-this-website/621250/3 "2012-05-08T11:29:37Z")

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Firefox 3.0? Seriously, no one has tested with that in a while. There’s no limit to the number of things that won’t work properly. It was released 4 years ago.