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Bug in input form (Names not showing up only attribute or occupation)

So, this is happening on one of my machines running Windows 10 and Chrome. I restarted Chrome to no effect. I'll try and reboot the machine. It works on my laptop running Windows 10 and Chrome.

Edit: Rebooting the machine did not change this behavior. No idea what is going on. Both machines are similar and both Chromes are setup nearly the same.

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@adrian  Sorry about that. On which title(s) is this happening?  Does it happen if you open an incognito window and login there? 

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@Col_Needham​ So far it has been on every title that I've tried. Turning off ad block works on one title Better Call Saul's Waterworks. It hasn't worked on two episodes of The Ancient Magus' Bride: Forgive and Forget and Any Port in a Storm.

I was just getting ready to try an incognito window on it.

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Using an incognito window did not work either.

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Microsoft Edge on the same machine appears to be fine.

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@adrian​ Does your ad blocker have access to incognito windows? The most likely cause here is that the ad blocker has already blocked some of the scripts or data required for the page to function properly, and now things are in a bad state in the cache.  Things to try:

  1. A forced reload (hold the SHIFT key and click the reload icon in Chrome)
  2. Another browser on the same system (preferably one without an ad blocker)
  3. Clearing your browser's cache and cookies for IMDb 

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@Col_Needham​ 

The ad blocker is not running in the incognito window. I started Chrome with the "--disable-extensions" so that nothing extra is running. I still have the same problem.

Replies to other:

1) You cannot reload the contribute form. It gives an error. This has been happening for a while and is quite annoying

2) Edge works okay.

3) I can try and clear the cache and cookies. (Though I'm not sure you can selectively clear the cache.)

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@adrian​ for #3 visit chrome://settings/siteData?search=cookies and you can use the search form in the upper right to narrow-in on imdb.com only. 

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It appears that clearing the cache (using the debugging tools) worked. The Ancient Magus' Bride episodes where I never could see names for Sound Department now is populated. Very odd.

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@Col_Needham​ Yeah. That works for cookies. The only way I found to selectively clear the cache was to using the web developer tools. That seemed to work for now.

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I renabled Ad Blocker and it is still working. I'll update if it breaks again. I may just have to run it with the web developer tools open so I can disable caching.

Also, of note, this was working as of about 12:30 am this morning but stopped working when I tried it around 9:00 am.

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@adrian​ Glad it is back working. 

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Just for info, I have been facing the same problem for the past 48 hours or so (I consistently use Firefox and really don't want to change browsers for reasons I won't get into), although I have yet to try the fixes mentioned in this thread. I've only updated two titles in that time period that didn't have any populated info yet.