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Could NS somehow be blocking Google Street View from working? It works fine in IE8 but not in FF 3.6.8.

When I click on "street view" nothing happens.

Are both google.com and gstatic.com allowed?

Giorgio Maone wrote:Are both google.com and gstatic.com allowed?

Yes they are.

I opened up the error console and when I click "Street View", I get this error below. Is it meaningful?

Warning: Unknown property '-moz-opacity'. Declaration dropped.
Source file: about:blank
Line: 98

I also have Firebug and Web Developer add-on's installed here if they could produce any useful info.

gmodules also needs to be whitelisted, and then, got any blocked Flash objects listed in your NS context menu?

allow flash wrote:gmodules also needs to be whitelisted, and then, got any blocked Flash objects listed in your NS context menu?

Nothing is blocked. I checked the whitelist and do not see any entry for gmodules. I can try and add this. Is it google.com/gmodules? Or what?

URL: Google Maps: 678 7th Avenue

I had googlesyndication.com & gstatic.com in my Whitelist.
google.com was not. Allowed google.com & "street views" worked.

If you have Adblock Plus or other "blockers" (HOSTS file) disable & try again.

PS: If you want to try it, gmodules.com.

Maybe a screenshot would help better here.

Check out:
http://www.fototime.com/EA359D4EAD1F85E/orig.jpg

Note that when I put the mouse cursor over "Street view", I see that all it contains is "javascript:void(0). Which usually means that someone is removing something necessary. When I use Firebug to inspect this element, I see this:
AddBlock Plus says it is not blocking anything on this page.

Jojo999 wrote:I see that all it contains is "javascript:void(0). Which usually means that someone is removing something necessary.

Nope. "javascript:void(0)" just means that the web author put "javascript:void(0)" as the href attribute, in order to avoid HTML navigation to interfere with a JavaScript event handler.
If JS is allowed for the page, the handler will just work.

Furthermore, as far as I can see you've got nothing blocked in NoScript, so pending extensions conflicts, Street View should work for you as it works for me and anybody else in this thread.
The most obvious culprit here is some different extension. Could you try disabling all your extensions except NoScript and check whether it works?
If it does, Standard Diagnostic should help you.

This is what I was looking at:

#1, initial
#2, street view "shows", but is blurred
#3, Blocked Objects, had to allow shockwave-flash@http://maps.gstatic.com

Didn't need to do that yesterday.
Though in the interim I did update Flash to the latest, 10.1 r82 & also NoScript to 2.0.2rc2.
Don't know if either of those changes made a difference?

(I've "un-linked" the pics. Didn't realize they were kind of large.)

#1 http://i33.tinypic.com/k2n6ty.jpg

#2 http://i34.tinypic.com/hx0vir.jpg

#3 http://i33.tinypic.com/np2ys9.jpg

Giorgio Maone wrote:

Jojo999 wrote:I see that all it contains is "javascript:void(0). Which usually means that someone is removing something necessary.

Nope. "javascript:void(0)" just means that the web author put "javascript:void(0)" as the href attribute, in order to avoid HTML navigation to interfere with a JavaScript event handler.
If JS is allowed for the page, the handler will just work.

Furthermore, as far as I can see you've got nothing blocked in NoScript, so pending extensions conflicts, Street View should work for you as it works for me and anybody else in this thread.
The most obvious culprit here is some different extension. Could you try disabling all your extensions except NoScript and check whether it works?
If it does, Standard Diagnostic should help you.

What I've discovered today is that if I double-click the "Street view" link, a little man icon in orange appears on the map. If I drag that icon around, I can see street views in little windows (maybe 100 x 100 pixels?). But there doesn't seem any way to expand those views.

But in IE8, I don't see that orange man icon at all.

How can I disable NS for a particular site, like Google.com to do some testing?

It's Flashblock.
According to their site https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433/,
you must add maps.google.com to the FlashBlock whitelist..
This solved it for me.

Flashblock?

To install a second Flash blocker (besides NoScript) looks like carelessness.
To install Flashblock in particular http://noscript.net/faq#qa1_3 ... could be regarded as a misfortune

Ernest Bunbury wrote:It's Flashblock.
According to their site https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433/,
you must add maps.google.com to the FlashBlock whitelist..
This solved it for me.

Cool! That worked for me also.

Don't know why I had to whitelist it though. Why doesn't it just show the Flashblock symbol as always and then I click on the symbol to see the Flash?