On 2/22/2016 4:17 PM, Alexandre Yudenitsch wrote: > I've used PrefBar in SM since V3 at least, and have allowed JavaScript > for most options in the browser (not mail/news). More recently, I > started using AdBlockPlus, and it seemed to work well, with no ill effects. > > For a few months now I noticed problems with sites which apparently used > javascript for some functions, like showing videos or processing > requests -- but, since I use Win XP SP3, I thought that might be the > cause, and considered that migrating to Win7 might solve this. I did try > to disable AdBlockPlus (on the offending page, and even on the site, and > overall) with no visible effect. > > Now, since last week, one local search site I use for planning pay-TV > use stopped accepting clicks on links (clicking on the link does > nothing, but entering the link URL as an address opens that page). I > tried disabling ABP (AdBlockPlus) again, because it (ABP) WAS blocking > several ads on that site, and I thought that might cause this, with no > result once more; I even completely uninstalled the ABP extension and > all leftovers, with no result on this front. > > It's possible the site's coding had been changed (they do that a lot), > but I then tried to think of this as a possible javascript problem: As I > said, JS was (and is) enabled for the browser, with all possible 'script > actions', so I looked at my PrefBar -- and noticed I didn't have an > option for that! So, I created a 'JS(tab)' checkbox, but that also > didn't have any effect. > > I went so far as installing a copy of FireFox (also with PrefBar and > ABP) and opened that page there -- and the links work fine in FF! > > Remembering a warning, many years ago, that uninstalling PrefBar with an > option unchecked might 'lock' that option so that, even if PrefBar were > reinstalled, it would still be 'frozen', I tried uninstalling PrefBar in > SM, afterwards deleting any and all 'leftovers', but that didn't help, > either. > > I also tried going back to SM 2.35 (because I saw a post in a forum > about someone having a similar problem after installing SM 2.39), but > that didn't help either, so I'm back on SM 2.39. > > I now use the "open with" extension to open problematic pages with FF, > and that workaround has been... well... 'working' -- but it's still an > 'ugly' solution, and I still don't know where to look for the cause of > this problem (which is not restricted to this site, but seems mostly > local, although a few functions on Amazon seem to affected too). > > Could it be some 'leftover' in one of the many SM Profile configuration > files (perhaps even "preferences.js")? Maybe some cookies or > 'super-cookies' are responsible, and the problem will go away when they > expire (this because, even after I totally uninstalled ABP, and rebooted > several times, all the ads on the 'problem page' still do not display)? > Could this be due to the OS I'm using? Or what?!? > > I decided to post this here, to see if anyone would find this conundrum > interesting, and might have ideas and suggestions about the causes (and, > of course, any solutions). >
I noticed that certain Web sites appear to use JavaScript in a way that PrefBar's "Javascript (Tab)" checkbox does not really accomplish what I expect. The most blatant is the Canadian news site <http://www.thestarphoenix.com/> for the StarPhoenix of Saskatoon. The top of each page there has a navigation bar that does not scroll with the rest of the page. Since I do not ever use that navigation bar, I find its waste of browser "real estate" quite annoying. For that site and similar Web sites, PrefBar's global "JavaScript" checkbox suffices. I renamed the latter "Overall JavaScript". -- David E. Ross While many tributes to the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia now fill the news media, his legacy was not necessarily positive. See my "What Price Order, Mr. Justice Scalia?" at <http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_scalia_wrong.html>. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
