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Firefox gets wide!
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 5:23 pm
by rayeshman
Here's what happens when I open some sites (here for example:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/calculus1)
I first tried with latest stable version and then with latest devel version, both gives the same.
Re: Firefox gets wide!
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 6:35 pm
by barbaz
Do you have a HOSTS file (or similar) blocking facebook?
Re: Firefox gets wide!
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2016 12:54 pm
by rayeshman
barbaz wrote:Do you have a HOSTS file (or similar) blocking facebook?
NO, but actually yes!
I live in Iran so, it is blocked by the government/ISP.
If it is that, please do something for your Iranian users.
Re: Firefox gets wide!
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2016 7:04 pm
by barbaz
IMO they are doing you a favor blocking Facebook, but judging by that ABE message it seems their method of blocking is... suboptimal. Can you please open a Terminal, run
and post here its output? Thanks.
Re: Firefox gets wide!
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 12:53 pm
by rayeshman
barbaz wrote:IMO they are doing you a favor blocking Facebook, but judging by that ABE message it seems their method of blocking is... suboptimal. Can you please open a Terminal, run
and post here its output? Thanks.
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<<>> DiG 9.9.5-3ubuntu0.5-Ubuntu <<>> www.facebook.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 64623
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.facebook.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.facebook.com. 842 IN A 10.10.34.36
;; Query time: 50 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.1.1#53(127.0.1.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Feb 15 16:22:49 IRST 2016
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 61
Re: Firefox gets wide!
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 8:17 pm
by barbaz
Thanks.
That is not what I expected to see... I'm not sure enough details of your network setup to say what the real fix is here, so I'll post two possible fixes and let you pick the one you think is best. Please let us know, thanks.

Possible fix #1 - just allow these requests to happen:
NoScript Options > Advanced > ABE > SYSTEM
add at the very top

Possible fix #2 - continue to block the requests, but suppress the notification for subdocuments (which is a bug:
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=18996):
change the SYSTEM rule (same SYSTEM as above) to read
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# Prevent Internet sites from requesting LAN resources.
Site LOCAL
Accept from LOCAL
Deny INC
Deny
Re: Firefox gets wide!
Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 11:08 am
by rayeshman
Forget about your first solution because one of the most useful usage of NoScript is stoping THAT site from redirecting :/
But the second one seems to be working; though I expect you to fix it up in the next version so all the Iranians wouldn't have to change NoScript default settings and be unable to see notifs.
Thanks for your awesome addon

Re: Firefox gets wide!
Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 9:34 pm
by barbaz
(On behalf of Giorgio too) You're welcome!
