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Friday, January 6th, 2023 11:56 AM

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Xfinity home page is blank under Google Chrome

Every time I try to bring up the home page, it flashes for a second, then is completely white under Chrome using Win 11.  Edge displays the page properly. What setting(s) in Chrome do I need to change to make the home page show up?

If the home page is not compatible with Chrome, this is a major issue for me

Thanks

Mike (Personal Information)

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2 years ago

Good morning, @Mike_AG, and thanks for reaching out through our Community Forums page for help with your browser experience today with the Xfinity page. I use Google Chrome as my primary browser for work, and would definitely fumble a bit with Edge since I never use it! You've reached the right team to help get this resolved.

 

Have you checked to make sure you don't have a popup blocker keeping the page from opening, cleared cache and cookies already and opened a fresh browser window, or tried to open the page in Incognito mode to see if it would load? 

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@XfinityMacey​ The AdBlock extension has been turned off for this site, and I added xfinity.com to the popup blocker in Chrome as an exception but it doesn't seem to work

Mike

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2 years ago

Opening a new page, clearing cache and cookies were ineffective.  However incognito mode worked

????

This is a start...Mike

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2 years ago

Interesting... 

Do you see this issue on multiple devices, or isolated to one device?

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@XfinityMacey​ I haven't tried it on my Android phone but as that is a different platform, it's not likely to have the same issue.  This is my only laptop

Mike

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@XfinityMacey​ Just for winks I brought up xfinity on my Android phone and it came right up.  Since running incognito worked, that is the place to start, but clearing cookies and cache didn't work, so that's evidently not the answer

Mike

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@Mike_AG we appreciate you taking so much time troubleshooting this, I know your time is valuable and we are glad you reached out to us here. Can you verify on your Android device, which web browser did you use to load the page? 

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@XfinityJessW​ The Android version of Chrome

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Pk great. can you take a look at the settings on your Chrome app on your Android device, and see if the pop-up settings are the same on both? 

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2 years ago

I have attempted to post here 3 or 4 times and even though it comes up as posted successfully, I never see it listed.  

The issue is one of page rendering.  On my system there is HUGE amount of white space at the top of the page, and at the bottom of the page, the following appears

GPC Signal Detected
This device/browser has now been opted out of third-party cookies. Please use the link below to provide us with your identifying information to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information.
This is a likely rendering issue where the third party cookies are suppressed, and the page doesn't like it.  Please pass this along to your developers.  This is an obvious bug
Regards
Mike (Personal Information)

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I'm sorry it took a couple of tries to post on the page. But I'm glad you were able to message us back,@Mike_AG.I did some digging and found that the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal allows an individual to control their preferences on a single browser so that participating websites can automate privacy browsing preferences across the web from a single place. So, it looks like it has to do with your data privacy preferences. Based on the third-party cookies' error, we might want to enable that on the browser. I found this LINK that might help with enabling third-party cookies on your Chrome browser. Would you mind trying those steps? Let me know if that helps. 

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This page is out of date.  Evidently what I have to do is add the Xfinity home page to a list of exceptions, even though I don't like third party cookies that have content I can't control

Not a very good solution in my book.  But let's see if that works

Mike

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I have tried this and it doesn't work. The problem might be related to the rerouting that takes place if you use xfinity.com - it always reroutes to either xfinity.com/overview or xfinity.com/auth.  There seems to be no way to fix that.  I tried putting both in as targets and all it does is change it back to xfinity.com, which is not really right.

Your developers don't seem to be on the ball about how most people think of third party cookies.  They can be a security risk

Something to think about....Mike

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We certainly understand where you're coming from but this would be the only solution. Let us know if it works?

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Access Denied

You don't have permission to access "http://www.xfinity.com/" on this server.

Reference #18.15934e52.1673208606.a26b7fcd

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2 years ago

SAme with Brave or Chrome.

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2 years ago

Looks to be entirely new website from the ground up.  Looks stupid as well

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After doing some digging, @user_a392c4. I also found that the Global Privacy Control (GPC) (https://globalprivacycontrol.github.io/gpc-spec/) signal allows an individual to control their preferences on a single browser so that participating websites can automate privacy browsing preferences across the web from a single place. So, it looks like it has to do with your data privacy preferences. Based on the third-party cookies' error, we might want to enable that on the browser. I found this link, https://support.panopto.com/s/article/How-to-Enable-Third-Party-Cookies-in-Supported-Browsers, that might help with enabling third-party cookies on your Chrome browser. Would you mind trying those steps? Let me know if that helps. 

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Once again, I tried posting this 2x and it never showed up.  So here goes - the link supplied is out of date.  To get to the cookies, you go to 'settings'  then 'privacy and security' on the left, then select 'cookies and other data'.  Go down about 2/3 of the way to 'sites that can always use cookies'.  And here is the problem - entering xfinity.com doesn't seem to work because it reroutes to either xfinity.com/overview or xfinity.com/auth.  If you try to put those URLs in it routes back to xfinity.com when it is stored.

Grrr...your developers have no idea how to test before they release to the world, do they?  Very annoying.  There aren't that many well known browsers out there, and at a minimum changes should be tested with each one until they all work the same

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Thank you, I'll be sure to share this information with our leadership and developers. I'd like to create a ticket to have this investigated further. Can you send a direct message with your first and last name and service address? To send a direct message click the "Direct Messaging" chat icon in the top right corner of the page, then click on the pen and pad icon and enter "Xfinity Support" in the "To" section of the chat.

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@XfinityChe​ This has been done

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2 years ago

Not sure if this helps, but I am having the same problem on a new MacBook Air I just booted up yesterday. I tried all of the steps above and nothing really worked. When I pull the xfinity tab to it's own Chrome window, the problem goes away. It only blanks out when I have it open as a tab inside a Chrome window with multiple browser tabs open. You might test this in your environment.

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I don't have a Mac, so no help for me here but maybe for other Mac users, so thanks

I'm willing to bet that all the testing for this page was done on smartphones....typical...

Mike

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(MacBook Air macOS Monterey 12.6.2) I get the blank page with Google Chrome and Brave browsers.  Turned off ad-blockers, same result.  Attempted to reply to this thread using Firefox (the page rendered), and this box that I'm typing in would not allow me to enter any text (completely greyed out).  I finally made it with the Safari browser (which is not an acceptable solution).

This must be a cruel joke that the xfinity developers are playing.

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Thank you for letting us know that's happening, @kaytu! Have you also tried with these browsers in private or incognito mode?

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2 years ago

I also get this problem in Brave, but NOT in Chrome (on Windows 10).  When I load Xfinity the page appears to be completely white.  I didn't realize until I read the posts above that the page is there if I scroll down far enough.  Before the page starts, this message appears: 

"GPC Signal Detected
This device/browser has now been opted out of third-party cookies. Please use the link below to provide us with your identifying information to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information."
I disabled the cookie blocking as a temporary experiment but it changed nothing.  I cleared all cache, history, and site data.  No change.  I rebooted.  No change.  

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Thanks for letting us know about the trouble you're having, @user_c54ec2. We never want you to have trouble getting to our site. Have you already attempted any of the other troubleshooting steps listed on this page? There are a few that we've seen work. Please let us know if you're able to access the page after trying. We're still here to help.

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2 years ago

Same here on newest version of Firefox Browser in Win11.  Posting on Edge, which seems to work fine.  I get a blank page when trying access Xfinity account on Firefox.

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2 years ago

This is still broken?? It's been half a year, I just bought sim cards and I'm already regretting this...
Tried every web browser, on Windows, Linux, and MacOS. All broken. 


To anyone who sees this thread the mobile apps seem to work so far, and really the sim card cards should communicate this instead of pointing users to the broken website Xfinity has no intentions of fixing. The app still points to the website to login so youll have to close and reload it once it hangs on the "gathering information" page. Key seems to be the /login route requires some sort of key (literally starts with "key." lol) in the URL that the regular login from the home page has no way of redirecting with. Really bizarre. I'd offer more diagnostics but that's as far as I've gotten. Bad first impression. I don't know the circumstances the web developers are under but it must be awful over there. If I wasnt so desperate to save some money I'd have thrown these sim cards away.

Also posting a comment before logging in throws out the comment, Why let someone type it out without logging in then??? Good thing for copy/paste history. Add that to the Jira board

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@nmcavoy​ 

Have you tried clearing your cache and cookies?

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