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There's a number of times when a page will be blocked, "Firefox prevented this page from automatically redirecting to another page." I understand this is a noscript function, right? Problem is, it seems to be somewhat unpredictable. While some pages will follow through just fine, others don't.

For example, an auction site I'm trying to use goes to another screen to confirm the bid, a secure one. It's blocked, and I don't even get the little "allow" button. Refreshing brings it up, but then I takes me back to the original page, without letting me do anything on the secure page.

This forum actually seemed to do it too--after logging in, it blocked the site from going from the login page to the index page. I gather this is more a feature than a bug, but there must be a way to tell it to allow a website to allow such transfers--they're pretty important to the way the net works, and some sites already seem to not have trouble with it.

I have FF3.0.17 on Linux Mint.

There are several methods for redirection. Meta-Refresh, Javascript and HTTP 3XX are worth mentioning.

For the first one there is an about:config setting: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Accessibility ... utorefresh
(additionally, NoScript brings a option prevent these types of redirects inside of NoScript elements, this prevents NS users from being redirected to a error page)

For the second one, there is NoScript. (and a less know about:config method for constraining what JS can do on certain sites)

And for the last one, there is the add-on NoRedirect.

kunkmiester wrote:there must be a way to tell it to allow a website to allow such transfers--they're pretty important to the way the net works, and some sites already seem to not have trouble with it.

- Uncheck Firefox Tools > Options > General > Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page
- Uncheck NoScript Options > Advanced > Untrusted > Forbid META redirections inside <NOSCRIPT> elements