bmazak wrote:One of the major problems I have seen is something in the blacklist is often required to run things on the page such as an input field or search fields. It is hard to know which of these sites on a page that has been blocked is the one for the input field or search. Any help there?
Sometimes it *is* trial-and-error, temporarily allowing one script at a time until it works. If you have specific sites in mind, please post them.
There may be clues in the script names. Please see
NoScript Quick Start Guide, and find the section with the
bold notation, "
Updated 25 Jan 2012:", for information on recognizing a site's secondary servers and their scripts.
The
JSView add-on will give you the full names (full file paths) of the scripts that are running on a page. Even if you cannot read Javascript itself, these full names may give more information about the purpose of each individual script. You can access this by clicking on the JSView icon, or by right-clicking on the page, click "View Page Info", and the JSView tab will be visible. Click it to see the list.
As for eBay, if you can post the exact steps needed to reproduce what you described, then perhaps we can indeed find a way to work around it, or create a surrogate if needed. Do you have to have an account there to produce this issue?
You may also find the
RequestPolicy add-on useful in blocking pop-ups, third-party offers, etc. that originate outside the site. But will Firefox's built-in pop-up blocker not work on the eBay pop-ups themselves? (
Firefox Tools > Options > Content > check "Block Popup Windows".)
Side note: I think I'll remove the addendum to the OP about intending to lock this topic, as it seems as good a place as any to discuss surrogate-related issues.
If there are objections from users, other Mods, or, of course, Giorgio, such posts can always be split off into new topics. But the threads on
disappearing icons and
Why must I "Temporarily allow all this page" REPEATEDLY? seem very useful for centralizing those discussions, and for users to search them before posting. Any objections?
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