Loading local (file://) mathjax scripts sometimes fails

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jdg
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Loading local (file://) mathjax scripts sometimes fails

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I have been packaging some software for Debian GNU/Linux, and Firefox with NoScript has difficulties with some of the local webpages. I am using the Debian Firefox package, version 94.0-2, and NoScript version 11.2.11. An example of a package with the problem is python-py-stringmatching-doc, version 0.4.2+git20201204.6a7fb57-4. The HTML page BagDistance.html (/usr/share/doc/python3-py-stringmatching/html/BagDistance.html) was generated by Sphinx and begins as follows:

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html class="writer-html5" lang="en" >
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8" /><meta name="generator" content="Docutils 0.17.1: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/" />

  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
  <title>Bag Distance &mdash; py_stringmatching 0.4.2 documentation</title>
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="_static/pygments.css" type="text/css" />
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="_static/css/theme.css" type="text/css" />

        <script data-url_root="./" id="documentation_options" src="_static/documentation_options.js"></script>
        <script src="_static/jquery.js"></script>
        <script src="_static/underscore.js"></script>
        <script src="_static/doctools.js"></script>
        <script async="async" src="file:///usr/share/javascript/mathjax/unpacked/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML"></script>
    <script src="_static/js/theme.js"></script>
This is version 2.7.9 of MathJax, and I've modified the page to use the unpacked version of MathJax.js for debugging purposes; the behaviour is identical with the packed version.

With NoScript disabled, everything works fine. But with NoScript enabled, even with file: marked as Trusted, things go wrong and the console logs two error messages:
Loading failed for the <script> with source “file:///extensions/MathMenu.js?V=2.7.9”.
Loading failed for the <script> with source “file:///extensions/MathZoom.js?V=2.7.9”.

Tracing the execution shows that things go wrong at line 3137 of MathJax.js:

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  var scripts = (document.documentElement || document).getElementsByTagName("script");
When NoScript is not running, "scripts" gets all 7 <script> elements in the HTML, but when NoScript is running, "scripts" only gets the first element:

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        <script data-url_root="./" id="documentation_options" src="_static/documentation_options.js"></script>
And at this point in the JavaScript, document.documentElement has innerHTML value (according to the Web Developer tools, split over lines for clarity):

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"<head>\n
  <meta charset=\"utf-8\"><meta name=\"generator\" content=\"Docutils 0.17.1: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/\">\n\n
  <meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0\">\n
  <title>Bag Distance — py_stringmatching 0.4.2 documentation</title>\n
      <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"_static/pygments.css\" type=\"text/css\">\n
      <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"_static/css/theme.css\" type=\"text/css\">\n  \n
        <script data-url_root=\"./\" id=\"documentation_options\" src=\"_static/documentation_options.js\"></script></head>"
So it appears to have lost most of the webpage.

Worse than this, though, the behaviour is not consistent. For example, the python-abydos-doc package has a very similar webpage, /usr/share/doc/python3-abydos/html/abydos.distance.html, also generated by Sphinx, and this renders perfectly: the innerHTML value is the whole webpage, and getElementsByTagName returns all 7 script tag elements.

I cannot understand what NoScript has done here or why. Any suggestions would be most welcome!

Thanks, Julian
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