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Slate.com commenting failure

Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 9:29 am
by Jojo999
I am unable to comment at Slate.com any longer and I suspect that NS has something to do with this.

I believe that the problem might have started occurring when I downgraded from FF 43.x to the v38.5.2 ESR release because I am tired of being an effective beta tester for Mozilla's stupid experiments with FF.

My ability to comment works fine in Chrome.

When I try to comment in FF, I get this rather useless error: "An error has occurred. Please try again".

I tried disabling Adblock Plus but that did not fix the problem.

I wanted to play around with NS scripts but I noticed something strangeness. I don't believe that I ever allowed ALL scripts to run in Slate, so when I noticed that there was no red bar through the NS "S" icon, I suspected something was wrong. When I moused over the "S" icon, I ONLY SEE ONE SCRIPT enabled, which is "Slate.com". All the other myriad other scripts that Slate throws at the user are missing! However, I can see them all under the Untrusted label. How they got under that label is a mystery to me.

See screenshot here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3aloI ... pudEE/view

Any help appreciated.

Edit: Updated with corrected link

Re: Slate.com commenting failure

Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 2:58 pm
by barbaz
Screenshot link just returns this:

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<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Not Found</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000">
<H1>Not Found</H1>
<H2>Error 404</H2>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Something got corrupted in your settings anyway. Check the value of about:config > noscript.forbidImpliesUntrust?

Do you have cascading permissions enabled? (NoScript Options > Advanced > Trusted)
If not, and if those entries in Untrusted show as "Allow [...]" and/or "Temporarily allow [...]": I would also suggest you go to NoScript Options > Whitelist and export the whitelist (as backup - this also exports your Untrusted list). If anything looks "off" in that Untrusted list, reset about:config > noscript.untrusted (it should go empty), and try again... does the problem recur?

Re: Slate.com commenting failure

Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 7:23 pm
by Jojo999
barbaz wrote: Something got corrupted in your settings anyway. Check the value of about:config > noscript.forbidImpliesUntrust?

Do you have cascading permissions enabled? (NoScript Options > Advanced > Trusted)
If not, and if those entries in Untrusted show as "Allow [...]" and/or "Temporarily allow [...]": I would also suggest you go to NoScript Options > Whitelist and export the whitelist (as backup - this also exports your Untrusted list). If anything looks "off" in that Untrusted list, reset about:config > noscript.untrusted (it should go empty), and try again... does the problem recur?
I fixed the link in the original post. Sorry.

"about:config > noscript.forbidImpliesUntrust" = False

"Do you have cascading permissions enabled? (NoScript Options > Advanced > Trusted)" - Yes

Unclear what, if anything, I can change in NS settings.

As I said, everything was working fine until recently. I made no changes to NS in any way, shape or form. Only change I can recall was the change from FF 43.x to ESR 38.5.2.

Re: Slate.com commenting failure

Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 10:11 pm
by Thrawn
Jojo999 wrote:How they got under that label is a mystery to me.
That's because you have cascading permissions enabled (Options-Advanced-Trusted-Cascade top document's permissions to 3rd-party scripts). It means that if the top-level domain is enabled, everything is enabled, unless specifically marked as Untrusted.

If that's not what you intended, then you should probably switch it off.