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When I go to answers.microsoft.com, whether from a search engine or by opening a tab and typing the site data, I get a redirect that keeps repeating, with tabs opening for each redirect. I can stop this by shutting down the tabs more quickly than the redirect can respond. Each redirect seems to have different data (see below this paragraph for one of the URLs. Apparently I can't add another without triggering the spam filter.) Needless to say, I can't log into the site this way or even see what's on it. I can't swear that NoScript is causing this, but if seems likely that it is. Does anyone have any thoughts on what might be happening?

https://login.microsoftonline.com/commo ... er=7.6.0.0

I'm unable to reproduce this. In a new Firefox profile with only NoScript installed and all default settings, if I try to go to answers.microsoft.com, I do get redirected there after setting microsoftonline.com, msauth.net, and microsoft.com to Temp. TRUSTED.

In my main Firefox profile, if I visit the link you posted, I get a chain of redirects that ends on the main page of answers.microsoft.com. But I did have to allow a XSS warning dialog in the middle of the redirect chain (I think it's likely a false positive). Do you have any related XSS choices listed in NoScript Options > Advanced?

Figured it out, I think. In addition to NoScript, I'm using the Temporary Containers add-on. Disabling it allows me to reach answers.microsoft.com (after giving NoScript permission to a seemingly infinite number of M$-related sites). I twigged to this after noticing that each of the redirect tabs was in a different container. So, answers.microsoft.com is looking for a cookie? Dunno. But this does seem to fix the problem.

Ladislav wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2024 10:09 am each of the redirect tabs was in a different container.

Yup, that would definitely cause this issue (both making the redirects open in new tabs, and making them endless). Thanks for reporting back