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Is there a way to quickly enabled blocked content (e.g. a video) without having to allow scripts on the entire page? For example, I'd like to enable the video on this page (http://www.confreaks.com/videos/659-rub ... ck-objects) without allowing the page's other content.

Currently, I have to enable one site at a time until the desired content loads. It would be great if I could right click the content and choose "allow blocked content temporarily".

There is no such feature, and I don't think it's techically possible anyway.

The closest you could get to the end result you're looking for is to copy the relevant JS into surrogate script(s); however, that would take a lot more time than figuring out the needed permissions.

NoScript isn't a general-purpose content blocker. If you trust confreaks.com enough that you're willing to run MP4 content from them, then you should trust them to run JavaScript too, from a security standpoint.

If you want nuisance-blocking, then Adblock Plus or a similar tool may be helpful. Someone recently mentioned Policeman, but I haven't yet tried it myself.

Isn't that particular clip going to play without allowing anything (perhaps after clicking a placeholder) - once you get it to actually "play" in FF - IOW having a proper codec (which perhaps OpenH264 is not yet?) or setting particular Prefs in about:config?

or setting particular Prefs in about:config

No need to allow anything.
Toggle the Pref: media.peerconnection.video.h264_enabled
Play your clip.

(That will work in Windows, probably anything > XP. Mac/Linux might be different?)

> No need to allow anything.

True.

> Toggle the Pref: media.peerconnection.video.h264_enabled

And now not even that is needed.
(I thought it odd when I tried it earlier.)

Something changed on the website?
Now I'm getting Flash, the other day I was not.
Perhaps the Pref may have helped the other day, but now with Flash, no need for anything.