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NoScript is blocking the JavaScript used inside of the TidyRead add-on in Firefox. This disables some of the TidyRead functionality. I can tell the TidyRead functions (the buttons bar at the top of the TidyRead display) are implemented in Javascript, because that's what the Firefox status bar shows when I hover mouse over the TidyRead buttons.

If I tell NoScript to allow the site I'm viewing, then the TidyRead functions become active. But this has the BAD side effect of violating the security NoScript is offering.

It seems to me the JavaScript within TidyRead should be considered to be local to my computer (a "Chrome Zone"?), and hence not blocked by NoScript.

I have no idea whether this is best considered a problem with NoScript, or a problem with TidyRead. Or perhaps it's my ignorance - maybe there is some setting I can change to fix this?

Looking forward to getting this resolved. Thanks, all!

--FLM

I also see the same problem. For all the sites, only once i give some level of permissions (temporary or otherwise) to the base domain does the tidyread overlay (or whatever it is called) is activated.
It would be amazing if these two (of my favorite) FF plugins could work together.

~mataal

If the buttons/scripts are injected inside the page, this is

1. potentially a security problem
2. surely the cause of them not working if you don't allow the page (they get the same permissions)
3. completely unneeded and fixable in a Firefox add-on: the developer should just wire the click handlers from chrome, rater than injecting hardcoded JavaScript

Therefore this issue should be fixed by the TidyRead developers, as explained in #3.

Thanks Giorgio, I won't say i understood all of your answer, but I think I get what you are saying overall. The main feature that is auto-blocked by NoScript is basically not a button, but an auto-load of the TidyRead overlay if it recognizes the site has 'reading material'.

Will raise it in the TidyRead support forum and point them here if they need clarity I guess.

~mataal