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Hi there,

I've been trying to recover my no script icon. I did check the FAQ in regards to going to customize menu and finding the icon in the toolbar setting. It's not there. I can tell that it is working in the background, but I can't for the life of me find an icon or keyboard command to get the toolbar to come up. I removed and downloaded the extension again, as well as closing and restarting Firefox to begin with. I'm using Firefox 26.0 if that helps any. Should I delete Firefox and start anew? I am at a loss since the pages I've been looking at all seem to say the same thing. I'm rather frustrated.

Where are you looking for the icon? Addon bar? Status bar? Context menu?

I've tried the add on bar and the status bar. I am not sure what the context menu is, so I am going to guess that is a no. (yes, I am user stupid, but I do try) I saw another post about removing files, but I am rather afraid to do that as I am afraid of making the problem worse.

try Standard Diagnostic

The context menu is what you get by right-clicking on the page.

By the way, you can launch the NoScript menu with Ctrl+Shift+S.

Barbaz thanks for the link. I will read it in a few minutes.

Thrawn I did the shift control S and got a window that appears to be a debugger box? It's not what I generally see with No Script. I typically see the little sub menu that has the temporarily allow <url here>. Is that a window I should be seeing? It's been years since I have turned my hand to playing with HTML scripting (assuming that is what it is) It's not something I've seen in the Faq's I've Googled up. Should I be looking that up somewhere? I do appreciate you taking your time with me on this.

nvm

Hecuba,

I went through that and what I did was remove all extension except noscript. It still didn't work. I had deleted the add on and reinstalled it back when I first started having problems with it. For the record, the add ons I use are: Adblock plus, AVG do not track, Microsoft.net framework assistant, No script, Categorian and HTTPS everywhere.

I disabled everything in safe mode with the exception of no script. Noscript still didn't work when I did the restart. I did a delete and reload on no script again, and it still didn't work. So, I backed up my bookmarks and deleted FF and reloaded it. It's working now, but I wish I knew what caused it and why so I don't do it again. Perhaps FF got corrupted? Thoughts or suggestions?

Beki wrote:For the record, the add ons I use are: Adblock plus, AVG do not track, *Microsoft.net framework assistant*, No script, Categorian and HTTPS everywhere.

(emphasis mine)

It's likely that's your problem, see https://adblockplus.org/blog/the-return ... -assistant
(yeah I know that blog entry is old but we're also still running win xp computers that try to install that addon)

nvm

Barbaz and Hecuba,

Should I have said I use XP Pro as an OS? I know it's supposed to be going away. I much prefer it over Win 8, and running a 10+ year old laptop, I'm not sure it could handle upgrading to Win 7. I have heard that they are going to keep XP pro a while longer. I'll have to wait and see though.

I've tried deleting the .net update thing early days when it populated since I never added it to begin with. I never have been able to fully get rid of it, so I figured it was a micro$oft thing. I don't enable it, but i couldn't get rid of it either.

If I am reading correctly, the article that Barbaz linked to says that there is an Adblock work around to get rid of the extension. However, I don't see much more than that. My version is one that is much more recent than the one talked about in the article, so maybe I am missing something. I always have to look up how to block something since I don't do it often enough, so I am sure that its something that I am missing.

Thanks for all of your help though! I do appreciate it

nvm

We use Ubuntu exclusively at home - and having it "just work" is a requirement.