I browse same as you: Firefox & NoScript, very few sites on by default. My experience matches yours with one other thing you didn't mention: When I get a blank

I browse same as you: Firefox & NoScript, very few sites on by default. My experience matches yours with one other thing you didn't mention: When I get a blank page, I do: View Page Style No Style usually fixes things quite well. E.g. seattletimes.com is blank by default but turning off Page Style gives me both text and images. Just not formatted very well, but I'm willing to accept that tradeoff.