Home Page has lightbox-like link-blocking overlay

[jennyp]

When I come to the macrumors.com home page in Safari, and click on either the buyer's guide or forums link, the window gets a slight cast over it, like I invoked a lightbox or some similar page overlay, and from thereon I can't click on any link on the page. A page refresh appears to bring things back to normal, but then the same thing happens.

The only way I can get to the forums or buyer's guide link is to right-click on it straight away and select "Open Link in New Tab" from Safari's contextual menu.

 

[Weaselboy]

I'm not seeing that here. Can you get a screenshot of it?

 

[theluggage]

I'm not seeing that here. Can you get a screenshot of it?

Hi, I've seen this too on the iPad - I think its being caused by the modal EU cookie policy pop-up: for some reason the dialog sometimes isn't appearing but the click-blocking translucent grey overlay is. You might have to clear your "cookie consent" cookie to reproduce.

 

[sman789]

I'm not seeing this either. I've tried on the iPad and MacBook with the updates.

 

[theluggage]

I'm not seeing this either. I've tried on the iPad and MacBook with the updates.

I'm not seeing it now. However, it was definitely the sort of click-blocking translucent layer that you use for a modal dialog so I'd give good odds that it was the modal cookie policy dialog misfiring - and I haven't seen that again either (even after clearing browsing data) so I suspect that you'll need to trigger that somehow to reproduce the bug.

If MacRumors doesn't have a modal cookie policy dialog then something altogether more interesting is afoot...

(Also, 2004 called and wants its animated-marquee "Congratulations, you are our 1,000,000th visitor" ad back, but since I've apparently been the 1,000,000th visitor for over a week now times are obviously hard so I guess MacRumors needs the ad revenue )