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You know what the error message means, you've decided to use a non-fully-featured browser to visit their webpage. It's like taking the wheels off of your car and then complaining that your immobile vehicle isn't eligble for the drive-thru lane at a restaurant.

They have a print edition that you're welcome to buy from any local store that sells newspapers.



I'm sorry, I'll tell Mozilla that Firefox is non-fully-featured right away.

HN doesn't seem to mind it, I don't see why showing me a bunch of text is such an insurmountable technical challenge for a website.

Also, to continue the car analogy, it's more like turning your headlights off and the drive-through complains that your car is nonstandard and won't let you order.


Why would you tell Mozilla that? Their firefox browser works just fine with WSJ, both to display articles and to subscribe to their digital offerings.

As is nearly always the case: the user is at fault.

To fix the car analogy that you maliciously broke, it's like a car that you took the engine out of, and then complain that it doesn't drive. But if anyone asks why your car is broken, you weirdly pretend that you didn't take the engine out of it, and make asinine statements about how "it has wheels, why doesn't it roll" knowing full well why it doesn't.


You don't even know anything about my browser, yet you insist that it's somehow broken for accessing websites. Whatever.


That's false. I know several things about your browser based on what you've said:

- You get errors saying that your browser doesn't support javascript.

- You're using Mozilla Firefox, which fully supports javascript

- The WSJ website works with up-to-date Mozilla Firefox out of the box

This means you've broken or tampered with Firefox using an extension or setting, or perhaps have some other strategy to disable javascript.

So what's happening here? It's either:

1. You know exactly what is happening: you disabled javascript and you're wasting everyone's time with a weird game where you pretend to be stupid

2. You are very low-skill in this area and have no idea what you've done or why

I assumed "1" because "2" is pretty unlikely for a user on this forum and quite mean to assume.




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