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1.9.6.5 & yahoo.com & page advanced on its own


Don't ask me if it is repeatable, don't ask me how I did it, but ...
URL: http://www.yahoo.com/

Allow Scripts Globally
Adblock Plus disabled

Next thing I know the page is advancing to http://finance.yahoo.com/.
So I click back-arrow (to http://www.yahoo.com).
After a second or two, yet again, I'm at finance.yahoo.com.

Now initially I went to yahoo.com & everything appeared OK.
I left-clicked a news article (second block down, under News), then back-arrowed.
Clicked another news article, then back-arrowed.

Then I clicked World (next to News).
And nothing seemed to happen.
So I clicked Local.
Again nothing seemed to happen.
Yet it should have.

It was around that time, that I started automatically being forwarded to finance.yahoo.com

Pretty much full lockdown in Plugins. ABE enabled.

If I revoke Allow Scripts Globally (& at that point yahoo.com not Allowed), then this does not happen.

I'll try another Profile.

URL: http://www.yahoo.com/

Allow Scripts Globally

News displays by default.
Click World.

Watch the fun.

Lets simplify:

NoScript Options Reset

Load URL: http://www.yahoo.com/

Watch the fun.


The Error Console message in the first post may be immaterial to this problem?

Note the URLs of News | World | Local ...
With yahoo.com Allowed they are like; http://www.yahoo.com/r/nb | http://www.yahoo.com/r/1a | http://www.yahoo.com/r/n4
With yahoo.com Forbidden they are like;
http://www.yahoo.com/_ylh=X3oDMTFkNGE3b2s0BF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEcGlkAzEyNDgxMzc5MTcEdGVzdAMwBHRtcGwDaW5kZXgtbA--/r/nb
http://www.yahoo.com/_ylh=X3oDMTFkNGE3b2s0BF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEcGlkAzEyNDgxMzc5MTcEdGVzdAMwBHRtcGwDaW5kZXgtbA--/r/1a
http://www.yahoo.com/_ylh=X3oDMTFkNGE3b2s0BF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEcGlkAzEyNDgxMzc5MTcEdGVzdAMwBHRtcGwDaW5kZXgtbA--/r/n4

Disabling noscript.inclusionTypeChecking makes no difference.

I cannot reproduce the "fun", even on a clean profile, but I worked around the issue reported by your console in NoScript 1.9.6.6.
Can you give it a spin?

Easily reproducible for me, different browsers, different systems.

The first time after rebooting the browser (err, restarting) after loading http://www.yahoo.com, you may have to give things a little nudge by initially clicking the World or Local link. (And observe that nothing happens.) But a moment later, you will find that the page advances, so you hit the back arrow, only to have the page advanced again on its own. So you hit the back arrow ... fun .

After the first time, if you then open a new Window & load http://www.yahoo.com, you should see that it then on fully automatic mode .

(The above only works with 1.9.6.5.)


Anyhow, 1.9.6.6 looks to have resolved that issue .