Version 2.6.9.36 update kills local links
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 8:50 pm
This is complicated... I currently use NoScript to enable loading images via a plug-in (Alternatiff) that is activated when the browser invokes an html or php web page.
The test code is:
Under both Windows and OS X operating systems, there is no native handling of TIFF image files. The MIME "image/tiff" designates the type of file referenced at the path "file://///192.168.1.0/Images/000000150.tif" This is a network attached storage device, or SMB file server.
Thus, the local browser plug-in "Alternatiff" is invoked when the file "000000150.tif" at the path "file://///192.168.1.0/Images/" is read, and the plug-in renders the graphical TIFF image in a HTML table cell. The first and second instances in the sample HTML above render TIFF images in an iframe and an embedded table cell, while the last instance pulls a JPEG file from the same path at the NAS and uses the native JPEG rendering capability of the Firefox browser to render the image in a HTML table cell.
This worked flawlessly until the 2.6.9.36 update.
After applying the update, Firefox will no longer load any images that are accessed via so-called local links.
If I revert to the previous version of No Script, all is well, everything works as expected.
I noticed in the release notes that there was a fix as follows:
x [e10s] Fixed MozBug 1196477 (crash with allowLocalLinks)
The issue I've detailed above may be related to this fix.
I have screen shots of the behavior described here, but need to upload images to a Internet image server before integrating the images.
Please advise...
The test code is:
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" />
<title>TIFF Test (NAS)</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" width="100%">
<tr>
<td><iframe vspace="4" hspace="4" width="700" height="340" src=
"file://///192.168.1.0/Images/000000150.tif" type="image/tiff"></iframe></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><embed vspace="4" hspace="4" width="700" height="340" src=
"file://///192.168.1.0/Images/000000150.tif" type="image/tiff" alt=
"file://///192.168.1.0/Images/000000150.tif" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="file://///192.168.1.0/Images/front_page_96_dpi.jpg" alt=
"file://///192.168.1.0/Images/front_page_96_dpi.jpg" vspace="4" hspace="4" width=
"700" height="320" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>Thus, the local browser plug-in "Alternatiff" is invoked when the file "000000150.tif" at the path "file://///192.168.1.0/Images/" is read, and the plug-in renders the graphical TIFF image in a HTML table cell. The first and second instances in the sample HTML above render TIFF images in an iframe and an embedded table cell, while the last instance pulls a JPEG file from the same path at the NAS and uses the native JPEG rendering capability of the Firefox browser to render the image in a HTML table cell.
This worked flawlessly until the 2.6.9.36 update.
After applying the update, Firefox will no longer load any images that are accessed via so-called local links.
If I revert to the previous version of No Script, all is well, everything works as expected.
I noticed in the release notes that there was a fix as follows:
x [e10s] Fixed MozBug 1196477 (crash with allowLocalLinks)
The issue I've detailed above may be related to this fix.
I have screen shots of the behavior described here, but need to upload images to a Internet image server before integrating the images.
Please advise...
