ABP breaks clock - and I don't know why

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chewey
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ABP breaks clock - and I don't know why

Post by chewey »

Use ABP with banner_bigsize as only filter and visit http://www.uhrzeit.org/atomuhr.html.

The clock doesn't advance. Disable the filter rule, and the clock counts the seconds.

I don't get why this happens: The blocked frame only loads a bunch of ad-tracking
scripts and seems to have nothing to do with the clock.

The error console says (only with the filter rule active, so this is somehow related):

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error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x805e000a [nsIDOMHTMLIFrameElement.src]"  nsresult: "0x805e000a (<unknown>)"  location: "JS frame :: http://www.uhrzeit.org/atomuhr.html :: onload :: line 1"  data: no]
What is happening here? Is this a Gecko bug?
Wladimir Palant

Post by Wladimir Palant »

No, not a bug. The page does this before starting the clock:

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document.getElementById('adtop').src='/inc/banner_bigsize.inc.php';
This fails because the address is blocked and the page never comes to starting the clock.

PS: I added the filter "|http://ad-track.de/*" and it works fine.
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