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Re:Firefox 50.0 by hprotagonist on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @01:59PM (#12961080)
Breaks NoScript on launch day. That was an unpleasant surprise this morning...
Re:Firefox 50.0 by meZee on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @02:05PM (#12961127)
Any reason you prefer NoScript to uBlock Origin's script blocker? Just curious...
Re:Firefox 50.0 by a1a on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @02:18PM (#12961234)
I don't think they are comparable. I run both. NoScript is a security suite – besides blocking java, webgl, flash, silverlight, javascript, etc – it has additional defenses against XSS, ABE, clickjacking etc.

uBlock was to my knowledge never developed to securely stop scripts and deter drive-by attacks etc. It should be used for adblocking, not for security.

Re:Firefox 50.0 by nine_k on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @02:09PM (#12961169)
...or uMatrix with its fine-grained control.
Re:Firefox 50.0 by noisem4ker on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @11:08PM (#12964462)
The fact that NoScript supports script surrogates might be a reason. That means less websites will break when not enabling scripts that are expected but not really necessary.

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/24/noscript-script-surrogates-...

>When you visit a site in Firefox that loads the Google Analytics script on page load, NoScript intercepts that request and replaces it automatically with the replacement instructions (which basically tell the site that the Analytics script was loaded fine but does nothing in regards to user recording).

Re:Firefox 50.0 by cpeterso on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @03:47PM (#12962064)
Does Firefox 50 break NoScript on all sites or a specific case? Can you share steps to reproduce the regression?
Re:Firefox 50.0 by ladzoppelin on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @06:21PM (#12963229)
The update for Noscript last week fixed this issue.
Re:Firefox 50.0 by dmm on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @02:44PM (#12961490)
I'm on the Aurora channel currently running 51.0 and NoScript works fine for me.
Re:Firefox 50.0 by elkos on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @04:52PM (#12962591)
I'm on the Nightly channel running Firefox v 53.0a1 (2016-11-15) (64-bit) on a Linux box. NoScript works for me too