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The NYTimes has a feature where when you highlight a word in an article a "question mark" will appear above the word. Clicking on the "question mark" opens a new window with the word's definition. This works with Firefox 5.0 but something in Firefox 7.0 has broken the feature (it was working about a month ago). In FF7.0 the "question mark" still appears but clicking does nothing. Disabling Noscript restores the functionality.

I created a new profile and installed the latest NoScript development build (2.1.1.2rc8). No other extensions installed. With NoScript disabled the feature works. Enabling NoScript breaks the feature. I have tried setting "Disable scripts globally", disabling XSS and ABE with no effect. There are no NoScript messages in the error console.

It's this Firefox bug.
To work-around, you can temporarily disable the popunder surrogate by setting the noscript.surrogate.popunder.sources about:config preference to an empty string.

Thanks Giorgio. Are you searching for the regression window?

Jim Too wrote:Thanks Giorgio. Are you searching for the regression window?

I cannot ATM. Would you?

According to the thread they have now found the possible culprit.