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This is a bit weird, but I'll try to describe it as precise as possible. I'm using the latest Firefox Version 13.0.1 on Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit. All add-ons should be up to date as well, I've just made sure today, so it's NoScript 2.4.8 and ABP 2.1.1. But NoScript and Adblock Plus definitely interfere (in fact it was the same before with older versions of both, unfortunately I don't remember the version numbers, but for ABP I think it was 2.0.something). I've started FF with all add-ons disabled except Noscript: everything ok. I've enabled on add-on after the other and checked after each: no problems until I enabled ABP again. If I only enable ABP it works fine on all pages and shows its button in the add-on toolbar. As soon as I also enable NoScript this is what happens: obviously ABP not working any more (ads back on the pages, no button in toolbar) and (and this really seems strange to me) I can't access the settings dialogue of NoScript anymore. The dialogue seems to be called but doesn't show up. I'm quite sure about that because when I try to kill FF through the Win Task Manager I'll get a message that some user action is awaited and klicking somewhere in the FF window only results in a short sound indicating that the focus must be somewhere else. As soon as I disable ABP and restart FF I'll get the NoScripts Settings back. Any idea what's going on there and what to do to get rid of this weird behaviour? I'll be happy to provide any other information that might be necessary.

Thanks everybody!

Maybe a conflict involving 3 extensions rather than 2?
Did you actually try to keep just NoScript and ABP?
What about a clean profile with both?

After disabling and enabling add-ons some more times, it seems that I'm now at least able to access the NoScripts settings all the time. No idea, what went wrong there. And I've set up a fresh profile with only the two addons and it seems to work. Ok, so it doesn't seem to be a general interference. But in fact, I'm not especially happy by thinking about transfering everything to a new profile just to make it work. Is there any other possibility to get down to the conflicting setting?

Thanks,
Aldawen

Aldawen wrote: Is there any other possibility to get down to the conflicting setting?

You may try to use the "Export" (for later reference) and the "Reset" button in NoScript Options.

Wladimir posted (or noted) some bugs dealing with "restartless" extensions (like Adblock Plus) that you may have run into?

Bug 770669 - Update from classic to bootstrapped extension doesn't update metadata, the extension is treated as a classic extension

Bug 744833 - extensions.bootstrappedAddons gets out of sync when an addon's location changes

Giorgio Maone wrote:You may try to use the "Export" (for later reference) and the "Reset" button in NoScript Options.

Tried it, but didn't make any difference.

therube wrote:Wladimir posted (or noted) some bugs dealing with "restartless" extensions (like Adblock Plus) that you may have run into?

Thanks for this. Could be that part of my problems now results from the points mentioned there, but there were some inconsistencies in the add-on behaviour with NoScript and ABP 2.0.something on my profile before (like missing accessible settings). But I didn't care too much about it as long as the add-ons work as expected. By now, I've found a workaround for me. After a restart of FF I'll deinstall ABP, restart FF once again, re-install ABP and have everything up-and-running until next FF shutdown. As I don't do this that often it's not nice but I can live with it. Perhaps I should walk over to the other side and explain my problems there, might be interesting for Wladimir ...

Thanks everybody for your efforts!