[RESOLVED] Yahoo search ALWAYS lead to a blocked redirect!

[Yahoo searcher]

Am I the only guy who uses NoScript and Yahoo Search? Everything I search for produces a page of results; when I open one of them in a new tab, it takes me to Yahoo and then Yahoo redirects me to the real page. NoScript blocks that redirect EVERY TIME.

I supposed I could add an individual "it's OK to redirect" from yahoo.com to every site in the Internet -- but I'd prefer to just add one from yahoo.com to "anywhere". NoScript doesn't seem to have that option.

It's been this way for weeks or months -- I figured somebody else would notice and fix it -- but nobody has, so I'm finally reporting it.

[Giorgio Maone]

Does this problem persist with latest version, 1.9.9.87?

[Yahoo Searcher]

Yes, it fails with the very latest one on this web site 1.9.9.87 (beyond what Mozilla offers).

[therube]

Is "Yahoo Search" an extension or are you simply typing something into the search box at http://www.yahoo.com ?

Like: http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=Av_ ... =yfp-t-701

As a test, if you create a new, clean Profile, does the problem persist?

If you do a Reset in your current Profile (backup your NoScript settings first if needed), does the problem persist?

[whatever]

It blocks the redirect both when I go to http://www.yahoo.com and type into the search box, and when I go into the upper right corner (the "google" search box, which I have set to Yahoo searching instead) and type. I get the page of search results, but clicking on any of them leads to an almost-empty page with a banner at the top: "This webpage has asked to redirect to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics [Options][Allow][Deny]". The Options button pops up a menu saying "Allow requests from yahoo.com to wikipedia.com / Temporarily allow requests from yahoo.com to wikipedia.com".

If I make a brand new Firefox profile, I don't get this behavior.

If I make a brand new Firefox profile and install NoScript into it, I don't get this behavior.

I went back to my original profile, brought up NoScript preferences and exported them, then hit Reset. It still gives me the trouble.

Ah -- I'm also running RequestPolicy -- and that's what is blocking this. (I never understood why it takes two extensions to prevent third party inclusions from running.) I figured out how to add yahoo.com as an allowed Origin and now it works. Thank you for the help -- especially because it wasn't your extension that caused this.