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).
Are you blocking referers? If a site will not respond to clicks on
links, that could be the problem. If you are using RefControl, you can
make exceptions to blocking for particular sites.
Another workaround would be to right-click the link, choose "Copy Link
Location", and paste that into the address bar.
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