Most or all such users seem to be using Firefox, but it wasn't verified for all of them.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Peachey88 | T112069 Instability on fr.wikiversity project | |||
| Declined | None | T112110 Various resources reported to load intermittently (due to Avast antivirus program?) |
We found out that the problem seems to be Avast! antivirus program. At https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=174202.15 had instructions to disable HTTPS scanning (avastUI > Settings > Active Protection > Web Shield > Customize - disable HTTPS scanning) or alternatively add an exception for not scanning https://*.wikipedia.org/* and such sites. It was reported on fiwiki that those instructions did help to solve the problem.
(Reduce tag overload. This is not a problem with JavaScript code, the ResourceLoader framework, website performance, or backend data replication "availability").
I propose to close this task as resolved - no new reports lately that I am aware of.
That thread unfortunately does not tell whether the original reporter uses Avast. :(
It's unclear if this is still a problem (and no further information has been provided whether Avast is involved). This task might get closed without further information and if this cannot be reproduced anymore.
I stopped using Avast in October because of this bug, but a few weeks later I made a note (in order to comment here but then my navigator crashed and I forgot) that on this version of a user page I could not see images 1 and 2 and on all of these three pages I only saw text instead of the image even after ?action=purge, then 10 minutes later a new ?action=purge brought things back to normal.