I'm losing Custom every time
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2019 12:38 pm
I just moved Firefox (FX) from 61.0.2 to 64 and YouTube performs differently, so I believe I want to use Custom now. Oddly, the past few months youtubes would run on FX v61 even with all of these as Default (most restrictive) - youtube.com, google.com, googlevideo.com. Even more odd you could comment on YouTubes; before the last few months, you at least had to give some trust to google.com and gstatic.com to comment on a video. Anyway, I assume that this was due to some change YouTube made.
So I was able to leave every youtube page-related domain as Default on 61.0.2. When I started or restarted FX, every page would load, and would have a window caption visible to alt-Tab in Windows, but they wouldn't PLAY until I hit the little play button. That was very useful, because I sometimes carry 20 youtube windows in my FX session. If they didn't require me to hit the little play button, all 20 would start playing instantly, a great loud mess that would take a lot of time to deal with on every FX restart.
Well, new FX version 64 is different. If I leave youtube.com as Default, the only thing that loads is a nearly entirely white page and there are no window captions. But if I fully trust youtube.com then every youtube immediately plays when I restart FX64. So what I found to solve this is to go custom on youtube.com, with everything clicked except Media. Then when I restart FX64 every page loads and their caption is visible to alt-Tab, but they don't begin playing yet. Then when I am ready to hear a youtube, I could just temp trust youtube.com, and that window only would play. The others would remain silent until I alt-tabbed over to them and hit F5.
This will work for me but when I restart FX64 youtube.com shows Default and I'm back to nearly 100% white pages with no window captions for YouTube windows in my Firefox session. Shouldn't it resume as Custom with everything checked except media? (And I'm sure Temporary Trust was what I clicked).
So I tried another way: setting custom as desired (everything checked except Media), closing the NoScript interface, reopening it, clicking Custom for youtube.com, clicking the little clock enlarging it, then clicking Media (so all are checked now). My understanding was that by enlarging the little clock, my change to turn on Media would be gone when I restarted FX64 and Custom would be back to everything except Media. However, when I restart FX64 after this, it drops to Default, just like it did when restarting following using temp trust. Is this contrary to normal function, or am I just misunderstanding how temporary trust and temporary custom work?
So I was able to leave every youtube page-related domain as Default on 61.0.2. When I started or restarted FX, every page would load, and would have a window caption visible to alt-Tab in Windows, but they wouldn't PLAY until I hit the little play button. That was very useful, because I sometimes carry 20 youtube windows in my FX session. If they didn't require me to hit the little play button, all 20 would start playing instantly, a great loud mess that would take a lot of time to deal with on every FX restart.
Well, new FX version 64 is different. If I leave youtube.com as Default, the only thing that loads is a nearly entirely white page and there are no window captions. But if I fully trust youtube.com then every youtube immediately plays when I restart FX64. So what I found to solve this is to go custom on youtube.com, with everything clicked except Media. Then when I restart FX64 every page loads and their caption is visible to alt-Tab, but they don't begin playing yet. Then when I am ready to hear a youtube, I could just temp trust youtube.com, and that window only would play. The others would remain silent until I alt-tabbed over to them and hit F5.
This will work for me but when I restart FX64 youtube.com shows Default and I'm back to nearly 100% white pages with no window captions for YouTube windows in my Firefox session. Shouldn't it resume as Custom with everything checked except media? (And I'm sure Temporary Trust was what I clicked).
So I tried another way: setting custom as desired (everything checked except Media), closing the NoScript interface, reopening it, clicking Custom for youtube.com, clicking the little clock enlarging it, then clicking Media (so all are checked now). My understanding was that by enlarging the little clock, my change to turn on Media would be gone when I restarted FX64 and Custom would be back to everything except Media. However, when I restart FX64 after this, it drops to Default, just like it did when restarting following using temp trust. Is this contrary to normal function, or am I just misunderstanding how temporary trust and temporary custom work?