That WordPress glitch?

Seems it's not just WordPress.  My main bank's site now hangs if I try to log on using Chrome (either the current version or the outdated and non-updateable one on the old workstation).

I suppose some widely-shared JawaScript library has developed a Chrome allergy.  (Is that a thing?  Hexavalent chrome is carcinogenic or something, but allergenic...?)

Or perhaps it's an incompatibility with some browser extension I have installed... like some script hangs if it can't get to something that's blocked by Ublock Origin, maybe?

I didn't try turning off any extensions.  I did try using an entirely different browser, and all went as expected.

... I remember dire warnings on a jar of ammonium dichromate, back in the day - and I don't think they even included cancer.  They did include something about not setting it on fire, which is of course what people did with it back then.  Volcano!

Update:  The b0rkage has now spread to Typepad.  I think it's something to do with jQuery.  I can't get to my own comment page, while logged in, even if I disable Ublock for the site... which says either it's some other extension or jQuery doesn't get along with Chrome any more.  Definitely time for another Great Browser Migration (the last one was from Firefox to Chrome, several years ago, when Firefox was showing signs of being both technically and politically untrustworthy).

Comments

[Eric Wilner]

OK, so it's some extension I have installed. If I switch to a different identity, with only the Google Docs stuff installed, I can log in and comment.
Most of the extensions I have installed for the primary identity aren't currently enabled... which maybe narrows it down, or maybe installed-but-disabled extensions can still do weird stuff?

[Eric Wilner]

Well, I turned off "Search Params Remover" and "Return YouTube Dislike", and that seems to have de-broken whatever was going on. The Web is increasingly weblike, with extreme interconnectedness, which leads to vast unpredictability. (This is not case of connections adding redundancy, but of everything being dependent on all the connections, which adds fragility as well as unpredictability.)