[UNRELATED] Getting website comments to display

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Hurlyg

[UNRELATED] Getting website comments to display

Post by Hurlyg »

Is the only way to get the comments section to display on the following political discussion website to use the "allow all this page"? Seems like there should be a tighter way to do it.

www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2011/12/dismay-at-the-times-108797.html
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Alan Baxter
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Re: Getting website comments to display

Post by Alan Baxter »

Golly, what a mess of scripts. I can get the comments to display in my NoScript test profile if I allow:
politico.com
facebook.com
fbcdn.net
connect.facebook.net

You may have to manually reload the page to have it show both of the current two comments.

Firefox 9.0.1 on Windows XP SP3
NoScript 2.2.5rc3 with its default whitelist and settings plus the four additional Allows listed above.

Notes:
- I already had facebook.com and fbcdn.net in the permanent whitelist of my daily browsing profile to avoid problems like this.
- I've now added connect.facebook.net to my permanent whitelist.

Hope this helps.
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Purgu

Re: Getting website comments to display

Post by Purgu »

Yes, it was a facebook problem. Apparently they store their comments on facebook. Thanks!
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Alan Baxter
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Re: Getting website comments to display

Post by Alan Baxter »

You're welcome.
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John Hart

Re: [UNRELATED] Getting website comments to display

Post by John Hart »

The blog problem needs fixing! If the blog page is loaded with NoScript disabled, then NoScript is enabled, it works correctly. If the blog page is loaded with NoScript enabled, disabling NoScript won't fix it, the page has to be loaded with NoScript disabled for it to work. The problem arises because NoScript doesn't detect/report what it's blocking so the user isn't given an chance to allow it.
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Guest

Re: [UNRELATED] Getting website comments to display

Post by Guest »

More information on the blog problem. If Firefox is invoked from an email link, the blog it doesn't work. If Thunderbird is running and the slite is invoked from history the blog works, even with NoScript enabled. Another problem that may be unrelated showed up. I found a site that kept reloading until it was added to the white list. NoScript used to stop when a site was blocked and would reload everything after permission was added. I think the latest version of NoScript is broken.
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Guest

Re: [UNRELATED] Getting website comments to display

Post by Guest »

The blog bug may be in Firefox, not NoScript. In tabs opened from Firefox NoScript works correctly. In tabs opened from Thunderbird by clicking on an email link, NoScript doesn't work right. The page reloading problem above showed up in a tab opened from Thunderbird.
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Tom T.
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Re: [UNRELATED] Getting website comments to display

Post by Tom T. »

John Hart wrote:The problem arises because NoScript doesn't detect/report what it's blocking so the user isn't given an chance to allow it.
NoScript always tells you what it's blocking. Open the main menu. Blocked scripts are shown. You may also have to point to "Recently blocked sites" and "Blocked Objects", but all blocks and allow-choices are there.
Guest wrote:The blog bug may be in Firefox, not NoScript. In tabs opened from Firefox NoScript works correctly. In tabs opened from Thunderbird by clicking on an email link, NoScript doesn't work right. The page reloading problem above showed up in a tab opened from Thunderbird.
Does indeed sound like this should be posted to Thunderbird support, thanks.
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