NoScript and Paypal via MacMall

[radunn]

I bought an item at macmall.com and chose paypal as the payment method. When I click the paypal link (box) Firefox freezes and I do not get to the option for entering paypal information. The only way I can get the Paypal link to work is to disable NoScript completely. I thought AdBlock Plus was causing it but indeed, it's NoScript. Is there a NoScript configuration needed? A few other sites have this issue as well. Perhaps we can kill two birds with one stone. In advance thanks!

[Giorgio Maone]

Are paypal.com and paypalobjects.com allowed?
Does your Error Console (Ctrl+Shift+J) show any NoScript-related or Paypal-related message when this happens?

[therube]

> A few other sites have this issue as well.

What sites?

[radunn]

> A few other sites have this issue as well.

What sites?

Are paypal.com and paypalobjects.com allowed?
Does your Error Console (Ctrl+Shift+J) show any NoScript-related or Paypal-related message when this happens?

Paypal.com and paypalobjects.com are not on NS menu at macmall.com site; they're present only when I log on to paypal via my bookmarks.
I ran error console before clicking the paypal icon at macmall.com resulting with this:

Timestamp: 3/6/2013 11:52:08 AM
Error: ownerDocument.defaultView is null
Source File: jar:file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Nathann/Application%20Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/l7lbud99.default/extensions/%7B7f57cf46-4467-4c2d-adfa-0cba7c507e54%7D.xpi!/components/mafContentPolicy.js
Line: 87

Timestamp: 3/6/2013 11:52:12 AM
Error: ReferenceError: op_stop is not defined
Source File: http://www.macmall.com/n/Shopping-Cart/macmsc-cart
Line: 1

Timestamp: 3/6/2013 11:52:18 AM
Error: ReferenceError: postamble is not defined
Source File: http://www.priceblink.com/iframe/toolbar.html
Line: 159

Timestamp: 3/6/2013 11:53:22 AM
Error: ReferenceError: postamble is not defined
Source File: http://forums.informaction.com/posting. ... =7&p=50008
Line: 588

[radunn]

> A few other sites have this issue as well.

What sites?

Walmart.com is one to mention. It frequently freezes (shown at Firefox Status bar) at "rich....something".walmart.com. When these errors happen I resort to IE that is successful.

[Giorgio Maone]

OK, I just tried to checkout to Paypal from MacMall and succeeded.
Notice that I do have both paypal.com and paypalobjects.com in my whitelist, and had whitelisted macmall.com to add a MacBook Pro deal to my shopping cart before checking out.
Please check whether your problem persist in a clean profile with NoScript installed and the whitelist entries mentioned above (one of the error messages you reported is from another extension).

[radunn]

OK, I just tried to checkout to Paypal from MacMall and succeeded.
Notice that I do have both paypal.com and paypalobjects.com in my whitelist, and had whitelisted macmall.com to add a MacBook Pro deal to my shopping cart before checking out.
Please check whether your problem persist in a clean profile with NoScript installed and the whitelist entries mentioned above (one of the error messages you reported is from another extension).

Paypal.com & paypalobjects.com were both in NS whitelist; I added macmall.com, tried again and still a no-go. Did you click at the "Proceed to checkout, pay with Amazon and Paypal" section? This is where I do not get the Paypal login window (freezes here); not until I disable NS or select Allow Scripts Globally.

[therube]

At that point in time, is there anything else able to be allowed, or anything relevant in Recently blocked sites?

check whether your problem persist in a clean profile with NoScript installed and the whitelist entries mentioned

Did you?
That might determine if you have something blocked - either through NoScript or some other extension, that is also wanted?

[Giorgio Maone]

Did you click at the "Proceed to checkout, pay with Amazon and Paypal" section? This is where I do not get the Paypal login window (freezes here).

Yep, that's what I did with no freeze. Could you try on a clean profile?

[radunn]

Did you click at the "Proceed to checkout, pay with Amazon and Paypal" section? This is where I do not get the Paypal login window (freezes here).

Yep, that's what I did with no freeze. Could you try on a clean profile?

I missed the important step; clean profile! Actually it wasn't a clean profile (I've a few created/saved from a while ago) that I tried and it worked at paypal (reloaded FF/site to be sure). Most (if not all) of my addons were installed in the additional profile; so apparently the profile used causing the paypal conflict was corrupt.?

Question; when you create a new profile do you have to reinstall addons or should you? I use Mozbackup to backup/restore but the "other files" section is confusing. As of late I uncheck everything there (other files - Mozbackup). I know this isn't a backup forum but perhaps you might be familiar. Again, thanks for your time and support.

[Thrawn]

Most (if not all) of my addons were installed in the additional profile; so apparently the profile used causing the paypal conflict was corrupt.?

It happens, which is why it's part of a standard diagnostic here. You can export your NoScript preferences and import them into the new one, so you shouldn't have too much difficulty migrating.

Question; when you create a new profile do you have to reinstall addons or should you?

Yes, to both. A new profile is a clean slate. You can even run them in parallel if you want.

I use Mozbackup to backup/restore but the "other files" section is confusing. As of late I uncheck everything there (other files - Mozbackup). I know this isn't a backup forum but perhaps you might be familiar. Again, thanks for your time and support.

Never used it myself. But if you think that your old profile is corrupt, then I don't recommend migrating anything except NoScript settings using a backup tool. You might copy whatever is corrupted by accident. Manual reinstall is safer.

[radunn]

I guess I spoke to soon. The profile that worked no longer works after a reboot and back to the same site..... same issue

"Something's" causing it to break.... lol