NoScript and Firefox v52.0 breaks ebay / paypal checkout

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Re: NoScript and Firefox v52.0 breaks ebay / paypal checkout

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Having the same problem with FF v52 and NoScript. For me it seems (for whatever reason) like the fedsignin.ebay link does not load. Using HttpFox to copy the whole link and manually load it inside another Tab takes me to the PayPal checkout, where i am able to finish the payment.
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According to this bug comment it should be a conflict with Avast SafePrice. Can you confirm?
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When I looked (not that I know what I'm looking at or what to expect with ebay/paypal), I had a Warning that mentioned, fedsignin.ebay.

Morpheus_79 also mentions, fedsignin.ebay.

I have no Avast (nor anything else).


(Don't remember which browser/Profile I looked with? Likely SeaMonkey, likely my regular Profile, so regular extensions, settings...? As in I probably did not check with a clean Profile & only NoScript 5.0.3 installed.)


New, clean...

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I believe the same happens with NoScript 2.9.5.
SeaMonkey 2.49 ~= FF 52.
Did not test with < FF 52 or other combo's.
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Giorgio Maone wrote:According to this bug comment it should be a conflict with Avast SafePrice. Can you confirm?
No, I haven't AVAST running.
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Me neither.
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Hi from Berlin,

I can confirm the problem - exactly as described by the others. I'm using Norton Internet Security, not Avast.

Right-clicking the popup window mentions something about "Clear-Click". I've unchecked the Clear-Click for trusted sites in NoScript, but it hasn't helped.

By the way, when my EBay account is linked to my PayPal, it works as expected. The problem only occurs when I have EBay set so that I have to log in to PayPal before I can pay.
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JoeG wrote: By the way, when my EBay account is linked to my PayPal, it works as expected. The problem only occurs when I have EBay set so that I have to log in to PayPal before I can pay.
Oh, thank you for this bit. So the best way to test it is using a brand new ebay account, correct?
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No. You just have to have ebay set so you have to log into paypal each time you want to pay, rather than having the two linked.
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Right.

This is an option you can choose.
If the Ebay and Paypal accounts are linked, you can unlink under "my ebay - my account - paypal account".
Else you can link the accounts on this site (or at the next checkout via Paypal).

For my opinion it in an unsafe option to link Ebay and Paypal.
I have not linked, so I have the trouble every time I use the checkout...
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TS wrote:... For my opinion it in an unsafe option to link Ebay and Paypal ...
I have mine linked :oops: , and so does a good friend of mine who's a programmer and has worked for IBM in that capacity for years, but my wife refuses to do it. Actually, she's the person who discovered the NoScript problem.

To get back to the long details of what's going on, besides the options (1) having the EBay and PayPal accounts linked (when there's no NoScript problem), and (2) having them unlinked and using the standard EBay/PayPal checkout procedure (which involves clicking a button, having a popup window open, entering your PayPal username and password, and having yet another popup window open - which is where the NoScript problem occurs), there's a third option, where there's also no NoScript problem. (I'm sure screen shots would help here, but in order for the problem to occur, you have to purchase something via EBay, and at the moment, we don't need anything :shock: ).

Anyway, the third option is that at the moment when you're offered the "Pay via PayPal" button that opens the popups which initiate the problem, there's also a text-based option to the left of the button that says "Go directly to your PayPal account" or something like that. If you choose this, you bypass the popup windows and (I think) a new tab opens in which you're taken to the main PayPal page. Here you can log in with no problem.

So to summarize, the EBay/PayPal/NoScript problem ONLY occurs when the buyer doesn't have EBay and PayPal linked and chooses the "Pay via PayPal" BUTTON option, which launches the two popup windows.

The first of these, in which you enter your email address and PayPal password, appears to work correctly: When you enter the required info and click OK, it launches a second popup window (which replaces the first) that has a spinner (activity indicator) that spins and shows you're waiting for your email address and PayPal password to be accepted by the PayPal login server.

At this point, the text "Logging into PayPal" (or something like this), which is in the middle of the second popup window (the first one is no longer visible), sort of slides up to the top of the new popup window, and the spinner (activity indicator) stays in the middle and just keeps spinning and spinning. This is the point where the problem occurs, i.e., NoScript is somehow breaking the PayPal login process between the time you enter your email address and password and the time the PayPal server tries to accept it.

I hope this makes things a bit clearer. The next time we buy anything, I'll try to remember to make some screenshots - or to film the process with my digital camera.

Oh, and just for the record, the problem began with Fx 52, but it's still present with the current beta, Fx 53, and with the Nightly, Fx 55.

Thanks for your follow-up Georgio.

Best regards,
Joe
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JoeG, your explanation is good, but it may depend on the global site of ebay where you are buying.

There is no alternative option to login PayPal on MY checkout site... :o (ebay.de)
Only "add message" or "change address" (and alternative payment without PayPal).
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TS wrote: ... There is no alternative option to login PayPal on MY checkout site... :o (ebay.de) ...


I've just tried it again, and for some weird reason, the link we saw last night is gone!!! :o :o :o :o :o There is no "alternative option"!

Anyway, I've just filmed the whole thing, and now it's pretty easy to see exactly what happens.
http://edu-net.net/media/noscript_sm.mp4 The movie is 13.5mb.

I don't think this will be nominated for an Oscar, but you never know. :roll:
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Exact as my bug.
At the end the spinning wheel disapears and the popup stays empty (until forever...).

BTW OT: Bengal mix? Nice! :D
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TS wrote: ... Bengal mix? Nice! :D

:D Nope, "pure" silver Bengal.
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:D

Well, I have found an "workaround" :oops:

Direct after enter the PayPal login, and the popup frame changes to the "lonely wheel", immediately right click in this frame and choose "actual frame - open in new tab".
There you will gone on.....
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