Firefox and NoScript??

Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com
Fri Dec 14 15:53:51 UTC 2012


On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:23 AM, scott <redhowlingwolves at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> On 12/14/2012 10:17 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:01 AM, scott <redhowlingwolves at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12/14/2012 09:42 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:35 AM, scott <redhowlingwolves at nc.rr.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/13/2012 10:55 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As far as I know, the site has to try loading JS for the site to see
>>>>>> its turned off.  This has always worked.  Now it isn't.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm running FireFox among other things.  I've used NoScript with it
>>>>>>>> for years.  Suddenly I notice that some sites see Javascript is
>>>>>>>> turned
>>>>>>>> off, and the usual controls for allowing it are missing.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The only thing that worked was going Tools->AddOns etc and manually
>>>>>>>> entering the URLs.  What's up with that?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If the sites don't try to load any JS, then NoScript wont know which
>>>>>>> domains you may wish to whitelist, and so can't populate a list of
>>>>>>> them.
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>>>>>>> Avi
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>> Sometimes I temporarily allow the top level domain and a few of the
>>>>> others
>>>>> that are familiar to me, like akamai, cloudfront, etc and then I'll get
>>>>> more
>>>>> that may be needed for certain functionality on that site. Does the
>>>>> NoScript
>>>>> S show up at all?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nope.  No "S" at all.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Kevin O'Gorman
>>>>
>>>> programmer, n. an organism that transmutes caffeine into software.
>>>>
>>> What version of Firefox are you using? I'm using 17.0.1 with no issues.
>>> Have
>>> you tried reinstalling NoScript?
>>> Scott
>>
>>
>> Also 17.0.1
>> I just reinstalled, and I'm looking at my gmail with no "S" to be seen
>> anywhere.  You can't tell me Google isn't using Javascript in its
>> interfaces.
>>
>>
> Is your navigation bar visible? Seems like I had that problem before and it
> was because the navigation bar was unchecked in firefox.

You mean the one where the URIs and search go?  It's there.

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Kevin O'Gorman

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