by Pansa » Fri Dec 01, 2017 8:44 pm
jrw32982 wrote:barbaz wrote:NoScript is a WebExtension, so it can't operate on Firefox internal pages like the new tab page. So it opens the NS Options page instead.
It doesn't normally work that way. When I click on the NS button, it opens a dropdown menu of JS items on the current page. But when I open a new tab and then click on the button, why doesn't the button work the same way (as I would expect it would)?
Because the new-tab isn't a page that no-script can interact that way with.
If it catches an XSS warning it originates not from about:newtab but from [...] because about newtab isn't a webpage in that sense.
Basically it isn't allowed to work like that.
If you want to change options for webpages prior to visiting them you have to go via the addon options of FF.
jrw32982 wrote:Several problems I've noticed.
- I'm unable to visit the site trustedid.com and have anything displayed. The little thumbnail image that shows up in the tab looks good, but the page is blank. Clicking on the NS button, takes me down the path described above (the NS Options page comes up, rather than just the page-specific whitelist) and I ultimately have to restart FF (and I have to use Chrome to visit trustedid.com).
In FF
http://trustedid.com doesn't resolve to anything, it just times out for me.
Are you trying to visit the website of the equifax service?
That would be
https://www.trustedid.com
trustedid.com has an ip, but apparently no webserver running there. So I don't know what you are trying to accomplish. (While firefox is trying to connect though it still is on it's own internal site though, and the above about Noscript tiggering the options is the reason.)
edit: Interesting sidenote: If you wait for trustedid.com to timeout, if you press the NS icon afterwards it doesn't open the options but asks if you want to reload the tab instead, because it realises that the side is not loaded.
[quote="jrw32982"][quote="barbaz"]NoScript is a WebExtension, so it can't operate on Firefox internal pages like the new tab page. So it opens the NS Options page instead.[/quote]
It doesn't normally work that way. When I click on the NS button, it opens a dropdown menu of JS items on the current page. But when I open a new tab and then click on the button, why doesn't the button work the same way (as I would expect it would)?[/quote]
Because the new-tab isn't a page that no-script can interact that way with.
If it catches an XSS warning it originates not from about:newtab but from [...] because about newtab isn't a webpage in that sense.
Basically it isn't allowed to work like that.
If you want to change options for webpages prior to visiting them you have to go via the addon options of FF.
[quote="jrw32982"]Several problems I've noticed.
[list]
[*] I'm unable to visit the site trustedid.com and have anything displayed. The little thumbnail image that shows up in the tab looks good, but the page is blank. Clicking on the NS button, takes me down the path described above (the NS Options page comes up, rather than just the page-specific whitelist) and I ultimately have to restart FF (and I have to use Chrome to visit trustedid.com).
[/quote]
In FF http://trustedid.com doesn't resolve to anything, it just times out for me.
Are you trying to visit the website of the equifax service?
That would be https://www.trustedid.com
trustedid.com has an ip, but apparently no webserver running there. So I don't know what you are trying to accomplish. (While firefox is trying to connect though it still is on it's own internal site though, and the above about Noscript tiggering the options is the reason.)
edit: Interesting sidenote: If you wait for trustedid.com to timeout, if you press the NS icon afterwards it doesn't open the options but asks if you want to reload the tab instead, because it realises that the side is not loaded.