NoScript on Firefox suddenly causing multiple video/streaming sites to not be able to load.

[ms1993]

Hi all, new poster but have had NoScript for years and no issues until the last day or two. I noticed suddenly that a lot of sites I frequent were having errors:

Crunchyroll was throwing an Error when I tried to play any videos
DirecTV stream was just not loading videos
Amazon Music was having issues loading
HBO Max wasn't loading videos
Twitch wasn't loading videos
Disney+ was also not loading videos
ChatGPT was not allowing me to upload files, only text.

I checked all of my Firefox settings with performance and video, and none of them fixed it, so my next try was to boot Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode, and this worked, which meant my extensions had to be the problem. So I disabled and enabled every combination until I was able to isolate the issue to NoScript alone. I enable NoScript, none of my video players function. I disable it, everything is normal. I'm not 100% sure what update caused this, whether it was a Firefox Update or a NoScript Update, but something is throwing things all out of whack.

[WFSR]

Yeah, I can confirm this at least on Twitch, as I don't use the other websites you listed.

Some basic functionalities aren't working on Twitch, mainly revolving around little context pop-ups, like the little "Okay, got it!" pop-up that you need to click in order to start chatting, or emotes, or channel points, or the profile dropdown when you click the avatar up in the corner, etc etc. I can't even properly login; the login popup doesn't show up, except when I navigated to the Twitch main page, in which case it showed up, but it was stuck behind all the video thumbnails and nothing on it was clickable. Whitelisting some websites that weren't already enabled didn't help anything.

I ended up opening up Waterfox, where I didn't have any extensions installed yet, and Twitch worked properly. Upon installing NoScript, the website broke in the same way as over on Firefox. So yeah, something broke on NoScript when it comes to this "pop-up" functionality on various websites, it seems.

[barbaz]

This is confusing. Are the two posts here the same issue? ms1993 (OP) seems to have multiple issues with things not loading, whereas WFSR seems to have an issue with in-page "pop-ups" being too much behind other things to use?

In both cases: What happens if you "Disable restrictions for this tab"?

@ms1993

Amazon Music was having issues loading

What issues?
Does this require login and/or an Amazon Music subscription, or can you reproduce this e.g. on an Amazon Music page for purchase a MP3 download?

Twitch wasn't loading videos

Unable to reproduce this on a random live stream. Can you give a specific URL where you can reproduce this without login?

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@WFSR

it was stuck behind all the video thumbnails and nothing on it was clickable. Whitelisting some websites that weren't already enabled didn't help anything.

How have you configured your TRUSTED preset?
Is there anything on the page that might be blocked & getting a NoScript placeholder?

If you don't want to disable NoScript placeholders entirely nor allow the thing they're displaying for, you could try this user script - viewtopic.php?p=104621#p104621