Firefox prevented this page from automatically reloading

[chris]

I just upgraded to v1.9.9.81, the latest, and suddenly, Firefox is showing messages such as:

"Firefox prevented this page from automatically reloading"

"Firefox prevented this page from automatically redirecting to another page"

Under Tools > Options > Advanced, "Warn me when web sites ..." is turned off, yet I see these messages.

Could it be related to NoScript?

[Giorgio Maone]

Yes it is.
Refreshes are automatically blocked for background (non focused) tabs which are not whitelisted.
This is meant to prevent scriptless tabnabbing variants, see http://noscript.net/changelog#v1.9.9.81

[chris]

I understand.

Perfect, I like the feature.

Needless to say, if I click ALLOW it will go in the whitelist and I won't be asked again for that particular domain.

Correct?

[Giorgio Maone]

Needless to say, if I click ALLOW it will go in the whitelist and I won't be asked again for that particular domain.

Nope. Currently you can add sites manually, in the noscript.forbidBG.exceptions about:config preference.
However, the automated behavior you're describing is actually desirable and will be probably added in a future release (this feature has been implemented in less than 1 day).

[Giorgio Maone]

Notice: this feature is probably going to be much less invasive and more automated in next release, follow the discussion here: http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopi ... 662#p18662

[Kex]

Currently you can add sites manually, in the noscript.forbidBG.exceptions about:config preference.

How? Obviously just adding a space and then the URL of the site doesn't do the trick.
Whenever I click "allow", it'll do the refreshing as long as I keep the tab focussed. As soon as I leave, I get that damn bar again, for a site which I do not want to put on any other whitelist. All I want is the frequently updated title for that tab, which I don't get if that thing isn't allowed to refresh.

So, how do I make this exception list work?

[Alan Baxter]

There's a typo in the pref's implementation. It should be fixed in the next release. Until then use noscript.forbidGBRefresh.exceptions instead.

[Kex]

Thanks, that did the trick.

I'm somewhat glad that things like this (making a typo go productive) don't only happen to me ...

[Alan Baxter]

You're welcome.

I'm somewhat glad that things like this (making a typo go productive) don't only happen to me ...

I always say: "Thank goodness for our customers, i.e. beta testers."

[Dirk S]

I was not aware, that a page can refresh without the intervention of scripts. Nevertheless. The new forbidRefresh function has impacts on the active focus. I always see the blocking message, when I for example click into the navigation bar of news.google.de. I tried the values 1 and 3 for noscript.forbidBGRefresh without success. Only the value 0 is working. But here the complete function is disabled.

I'd like to get the complete refresh disabled on any tab without any notification. And it tooks me a long way to focus out, what the message "Firefox has blocked..." exactly means. Could this be changed in "NoScript has blocked...", to better identify the source for this problem?

[Alan Baxter]

I think it may work differently in NoScript 1.9.9.82, Dirk. Could you try 1.9.9.82 and let us know what you think about it?
http://noscript.net/getit#devel

[Dirk S]

Version 1.9.9.82 is much better. Now the focus tab automatically reloads without a notification. Good work, Alan

[Dirk S]

Ups. Now there is another problem with version 1.9.9.82. If I am on news.google.de and enter another address in the link field, I temporary switch to the new site, bus shortly after this I get the google page back.

[Giorgio Maone]

Ups. Now there is another problem with version 1.9.9.82. If I am on news.google.de and enter another address in the link field, I temporary switch to the new site, bus shortly after this I get the google page back.

Please check latest development build, thanks.

[Dirk S]

Now the focused tab only reloads when I switch to it (without notification) and I gan also access other sites in this tab.

But: If I enter a word instead of a complete address, e.g. "kjsahdfkjsahkd", it will not be used as a search criterium and the old page refreshes. When I use noscript.forbidBGRefresh=0, I get the results of google. If I enter a word, that I used before, it seems to work, maybe, because it's in the search focus of firefox itself.