Firefox does not send request for some (cached?) pages? - firefox

We are working on a Java EE project for some time now and recently we have experienced a problem where suddenly on some clients the pages wouldn't load.
Using firebug we saw that some Javascript resources didn't load (the attached pic) and then by testing via Wireshark we found out that Firefox doesn't send a request for these resources.
The interesting part is that after deleting the local Firefox cache on a client that page loads as normal, therefore it seems there is a problem with resources that are cached locally.
As we have never experienced this until recently could it be due to a bug in newer versions of Firefox (28+) as we have never experienced this on something like Chrome? Any help would be much appreciated

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See these questions on how to test sites in different browsers:
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after onSuccess and also the overall request processing is not happening as expected.
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Please take a look at this code:
http://3wcloud-com-provisioning-qa.appspot.com/testAjaxDojo
Just tab off the "domain" input field to try to make the Ajax run.
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When running in Firefox 3.5, I get "dojo not defined" on the dojo.xhrGet statement.
It works fine in IE7 and Chrome browsers, and one friend tested on Firefox 3.0 and it worked.
1) Is there something wrong with Firefox 3.5 not properly getting the dojo javascript from the CDN? Possibly a caching issue?
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Finally found the problem. It was the add-on called "No-Script". Even though I had set No-Script to allow scripts globally, something in that tool was causing the issue. I upgraded to new version of No-Script and still had problem. If I disable the add-on (from the Tools/Add-ons screen), then Dojo loads perfectly from the CDN and life is good again.
I probably lost 6-8 hours on this stupid issue. Hope this posts saves someone else the time. Please "vote-up" the answer if it does.
As I stated in my comment, on Firefox 3.5 (mac) works fine. Try to do the following on your Firefox browser, insert the dojo library url in the url bar:
http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/dojo/1.3.2/dojo/dojo.xd.js
Usually it helps to solve any cache problems and forces Firefox to fetch the file.
If it still doesn't work, just store dojo in your server and use it locally.
It's working fine here with NoScript enabled.
I just needed to allow both "3wcloud-com-provisioning-qa.appspot.com" and "ajax.googleapis.com".

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