HTML sizes broken on Fx 3.0.x and below, NS 1.9.9.36

[hewee]

NoScript v1.9.9.36 is making the font bigger at some sites.

http://forums.techguy.org/
and
http://www.calendarofupdates.com/update ... p=calendar

I tested to see if it was v1.9.9.36 by disabling it and it was.
Went back to v1.9.9.35 and all is OK.

May be other sites also effected but I did not go around checking other sites.

[therube]

Seeing no difference here?
You're on FF2, lets see ...

With JavaScript blocked, no change.
Allow JavaScript & the font size increases. And 1.9.9.35 does not cause this.

So, confirmed.

[Alan Baxter]

To further confirm and clarify.
- Blocking JavaScript without NoScript: nochange.
- Allowing JavaScript in Firefox and NoScript 1.9.9.36 simultaneously: font size increases.

By the way, I still use the most current version of NoScript on my Windows 98 SE computer running Fx 2.0.0.20. It would not upset me at all if at some time newer versions of NoScript don't support Fx 2. Seems like working around regressions in Fx 2 could get problematic eventually. It doesn't have a large enough user base to keep it from getting too buggy.

[Guest]

therube,

Yes I have Firefox 2.x

Alex,

I got Firefox 2.0.0.20 also on XP Pro but from what you posted it seems Firefox 2.0.0.20 and NoScript v1.9.9.36 is what is doing this to the font.

I know more and more add-ons are not working or being updated for Firefox 2.x and that's to bad because I like it better the Firefox 3.x
But guess I will have to change some time because I get no updates for AdBlock Plus

[dwane]

Hello,

I have the same font problem. Firefox 3.0.17 and NoScript v1.9.9.36 with JavaScript enabled via Firefox.

Is there any way to solve this apart from roling back to a previous version of NoScript?

THank you.

[Giorgio Maone]

Incredibly enough, it seems to be caused by the anti-popunder surrogate. I still can't figure out why, though (it has nothing to do with fonts and is not causing any error on those pages, so it must be a subtler Gecko < 1.9.1 bug).
You can work around by setting the noscript.surrogate.popunder.sources about:config preference to an empty string for now, or by adding the malfunctioning domains to noscript.surrogate.popunder.exceptions.

[EDIT]:
it turns out not being even popunder-specific: any page-level surrogate execution causes this font increasing on those pages. The mystery deepens...

[hewee]

Very odd one for sure.

I just went back to the older v1.9.9.35.

Wishing you the best on find out what's going on.

[dwane]

Hi,

I forgot to ask: How to I get back to the version 1.9.9.35. I cant find any donwload on the main site.

Thank you

[Giorgio Maone]

http://noscript.net/feed

[Guest]

hi i have same problem, after update i have huge font size in forums

[Guest]

and x.37 didnt fix the problem, i had to uninstall noscript...

[Giorgio Maone]

and x.37 didnt fix the problem, i had to uninstall noscript...

You can either upgrade Firefox, or downgrade NoScript, or use the other work-around I already suggested, until a fix is found.

[kirys]

It's not only an issue of larger fonts, on some site there are also some issue on element sizes (for example on youtube the search box became really thin).

[Bender]

It's not only an issue of larger fonts, on some site there are also some issue on element sizes (for example on youtube the search box became really thin).

Yep, this is not only a font size problem, but a block or image bug too.

Here an example with NoScript 1.9.9.36 enabled on Firefox 3.0.17 :

the search box is cutted.

An when NoScript disabled :

[Giorgio Maone]

Update: seems a bug in how older Gecko versions compute em to pixel conversion, triggered by early script execution.
However how it happens and how to work around preserving page-level surrogate scripts is still to be found.