Ancestry downloads

[Davo]

First, as a newbie, many thanks for NoScript
The most useful add-on I have yet found!http://forums.informaction.com/posting. ... e=post&f=7#

Just one hitch

I cannot download census info on Firefox, it crashes due to ?XSS cross script?
Is it possible to get round this as I hate using other browsers

cheers

davo
Yorkshire, England

[Tom T.]

What is the URL of the site from which you are attempting to download?

Cheers,
Tom T.

[Davo]

TomT

just an example
this is a secure site for which subs are paid

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss ... sbo=0&ne=3


davo

[Giorgio Maone]

When you get the XSS warning, you should also find one or more [NoScript XSS] lines in Tools|Error Console.
Could you copy them here, so I can see what's going on and fix it or give you a work-around?

[Tom T.]

@Giorgio:

Note that the URL given by OP redirects to a secure, https site (when OP said "secure site", it rang an alarm bell with the http: prefix).

Could that possibly have anything to do with NS regarding this as a "cross-site" issue? Didn't think so, but thought it wouldn't hurt to mention it.
After creating an account or logging in, you are back to insecure http site.

Also, once you create an account (I made one for test purposes), you get another page written *entirely* in JS, with the usual blank page, NS block-logo, and a list of js-source URLs. Allowing all from the site produced another blank page. Whitelisting it in ABO produced a proper page.

Attempting a search loads another script that must be allowed. Also, to do a search, must allow google-analytics and yahooapis.com.
Of course, more advertising agencies continue to try to load at each step of the process, including yieldmanager.

I tried a search for Joseph P. Kennedy (patriarch of the US's Kennedy dynasty), born in Boston, USA but of Irish ancestry. I received a list of possible results, but could go no farther without signing up for a 14-day free trial, giving a credit card #. So, could not reproduce OP's issue, but here is some more information for you to work with about the process and what objects are required, etc. Hope it helps.