Problem with adblock plus and noscript with blackboard

student · Post by **student** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:00 am

My university uses Blackboard (http://access.blackboard.com/us/index.Bb) for courses to communicate. It used to work fine but I seem to be running into problems now. It seems to be since Firefox upgraded to 2.0.0.8.

The problem is that when I post a message a Java applet (I think, at least the Java icon appears in the system tray) starts up, which seems to be a rich text editor. It is always hanging now. When I disable Adblock and Noscript it works fine, but enabling one or the other causes problems.

I'm getting around it at the moment by firing up IE, as it is quicker to do that than to disable the 2 addons, restart FF, make my post, re-enable them again and restart.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:13 am

Does it help if you whitelist the site?

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@@http://*.blackboard.com/

tremby · Post by **tremby** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:06 am

i have the same problem (whether Adblock Plus has any filters and subscriptions or not) and it is not solved by whitelisting the site. i've tried with all extensions disabled except ABP, and with no filters at all, and with no filters except the relevant whitelist -- i still get the hang. bit of a pain -- i can't even quickly load IE since i'm on Linux.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:22 am

Have you allowed the scripting for that site to run in NoScript?

ABP should do nothing without filtering unless it has something to do with the "Show tabs on Flash and Java" option being 'on' in ABP's OPTIONS. Try turning that off if it is on.

tremby · Post by **tremby** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:32 am

i don't have Noscript at all, and the option you mention is switched off. if there's something i can do to help debug, i'm willing if i'm talked through the process.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:42 am

I just realized that you are not the OP.

If this didn't fix your problem, then you'll have to wait for Wladimir on your problem.

@ student:
Did anything that I mentioned work for you?

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:19 am

Nothing that I can do about it - the usual Java issues. The fact that NoScript causes it as well proves it. This is something that can only be fixed in the browser - and was indeed fixed, in Firefox 3 Beta 1. There is a slight chance that a Java upgrade will help but I wouldn't bet on it.