We teach CMS and DMS using ConcreteCMS for tech students. Since January 1st, we’re unfortunately locked out from participating in the Forum due to imcompatability with Firefox ESR and Discourse.
User profiles from over 30 students and faculty members are affected. Reason: We’re not allowed to update or install new american software on our workstations in our computer lab due to a decision that was made by the school administration one year ago.
Now what? We’re concerned.
Any thoughts?
Stef
Hi Stef, thanks for flagging this, and sorry you’re running into it.
Just to clarify one important point up front: we don’t run or maintain Discourse itself. The forum software, browser compatibility, and ESR support are all handled by the Discourse project, not by Concrete CMS. You can post on their support forum here: https://meta.discourse.org/
What we do control is the Concrete CMS website and the community space we host on top of that software. If you’re having any issues with that please let us know.
Thanks Jess for your response.
I adressed my topic not to Concrete. I just wondered if we are the only ones here and if there are ideas how to participate despite the circumstances.
I am NOT an expert in any of this but could you block Discourse’s ability to detect your browser version with something like uBlock Origin? I have used it on other sites to solve JS issues. I added this line to uBlock’s filter
https://forums.concretecms.org/assets/browser-detect-*
thank you michael for your input. i will pass this info to our sys administrator to look into. i’ll be posting back if successfull.
It works with uBlock as @mhawke posted. Make sure uBlock ist installabled.
It works limited with @CoDa_ZRH’s sys login. Some quirks persist.
We’re still on it and try now with the users setup on the terminals.
I think we fixed it with following settings:
In tab «Filter List», this must be active
and
@mhawke’s rule goes into «My Filters»
we’ll check with now with users profile.
Filters will be applied on all machines running Firefox 115.32.0esr
Yippieh! Problem solved. Now it works on all machines. Thank you Michael, for your tip,
and @CoDa_ZRH and Marco D. for their assistance here.
very nice! works great on my old mac air at home. but on lab terminals we’re not able to install uBlock, therefore no proper view of the forum.
All perfect here. Forum shows as expected.
Thanks Marco for installing gorhill’s uBlock.
BTW: a canadian software
