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Noscript blocking Facebook games

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 8:10 pm
by bettei
I have used Noscript for several months and played the Scrabble game on Facebook with no problems. However, since the last update I did with Noscript, I cannot get the game to fully load, no matter what I do. I have even tried "temporarily allow all this page", and still it won't fully load.

So I wondered what what so different about this latest update that changes how I play games on Facebook? Scrabble is from EAmobile, so if you could give me instructions on how to change settings on Noscript to allow me to play this game it would be appreciated.

To play it now I have to disable Noscript, and that has never happened before. thanks!

Re: Noscript blocking Facebook games

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 8:42 pm
by Giorgio Maone
I managed to start the game as soon as I allowed all the following:
  1. facebook.com
  2. fbcdn.net
  3. eamobile.com
  4. scorecardsearch.com
  5. google.com
If that doesn't work for you, please show me a screenshot of your NoScript menu on the Scrabble page.
Thanks

Re: Noscript blocking Facebook games

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:00 pm
by bettei
I can only get the game to load to 75%, even with those things approved. I even tried "allow this page". I do not know how to make a screen shot, but noticed that at the "become a fan" box of the Scrabble game, a "clear-click" warning appears. And it says something about a possible click-jacking attempt.

Can you tell me how to get around this? Like I said, the game worked with Noscript until I did an update on it. And the game works if I disable Noscript completely too. So I am confused ...
Thanks

Re: Noscript blocking Facebook games

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:05 pm
by Giorgio Maone
Do you get any error message in Tools|Error Console?
Does downgrading actually help?

Re: Noscript blocking Facebook games

Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 12:00 am
by bettei
I tried downgrading to the last two updates. Little changed, and I still can't get the game to load fully. In the "tools/errors" there is this..."uncaught exception-component returned failure code 0X80004002.

Your icon with the blue snake with the red circle around it appears in the box where you click to "become a fan of Scrabble". I can't seem to get around this blocking by Noscript, and do not know what to change.
Thanks

Re: Noscript blocking Facebook games

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:27 pm
by Guest
I am having a similar problem playing FarmVille on Facebook, but my problem is XSS-related. I AM a bit of a geek but unfortunately I am unable to work out how to properly format Anti-XSS Protection Exemptions. The character strings used as examples do not cover the type of site I'm having trouble with (i.e.: http://api.connect.facebook.com). I wish there were somewhere to get help with formatting these exceptions other than the extremely limited samples that are provided in the Options window. I have recently tried to construct two exception lines based on what I could interpret from an example given:

NS Anti-XSS Protection Exemptions Example from Options Window: ^http://[\w\-\.]*\bsearch[\w\-\.]*\.ebay\.(?:com|de|co\.uk)[\/\?]
Lines constructed: ^http://[\w\-\.]*\api.connect[\w\-\.]*\.facebook\.(?:com)[\/\?] and
^http://[\w\-\.]farmville\.com[\/\?]

However, I have absolutely no confidence that these lines will work. My wife is experiencing even more instances of this problem on her machine and I would like to be able to fix it. Unfortunately I cannot unravel the proper command structure and there is no detailed explanation of the elements and how to format them. Is there any way to get help? Not that it really matters, but I have donated to NoScript in the past because I think it's probably the most important addon there is for Firefox.

Thanks for any assistance.

Re: Noscript blocking Facebook games

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:28 pm
by phlashlite
I am having a similar problem playing FarmVille on Facebook, but my problem is XSS-related. I AM a bit of a geek but unfortunately I am unable to work out how to properly format Anti-XSS Protection Exemptions. The character strings used as examples do not cover the type of site I'm having trouble with (i.e.: http://api.connect.facebook.com). I wish there were somewhere to get help with formatting these exceptions other than the extremely limited samples that are provided in the Options window. I have recently tried to construct two exception lines based on what I could interpret from an example given:

NS Anti-XSS Protection Exemptions Example from Options Window: ^http://[\w\-\.]*\bsearch[\w\-\.]*\.ebay\.(?:com|de|co\.uk)[\/\?]
Lines constructed: ^http://[\w\-\.]*\api.connect[\w\-\.]*\.facebook\.(?:com)[\/\?] and
^http://[\w\-\.]farmville\.com[\/\?]

However, I have absolutely no confidence that these lines will work. My wife is experiencing even more instances of this problem on her machine and I would like to be able to fix it. Unfortunately I cannot unravel the proper command structure and there is no detailed explanation of the elements and how to format them. Is there any way to get help? Not that it really matters, but I have donated to NoScript in the past because I think it's probably the most important addon there is for Firefox.

Thanks for any assistance.