My javascript stopped working today when viewing my C Drive content, but still OK once at website
I use javascript:change_frames extensively on my websites to map a thumbnail to 2 or 3 different iframes and it has always worked in all browsers ios, android - everything. But just now it will not work in Firefox as I try to test my pages prior to FTP to my hosting, although it DOES work once on the www. It this caused by some new version and can I revert to a version that does not zap my javascript? Thanks in advance as this is driving me crazy (and to Chrome or Edge after 24 years using Mozilla stuff)
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Hi childsupport, could you check for messages in Firefox's Web Console. You can open the Web Console in the lower part of the tab using either:
- "3-bar" menu button > Web Developer > Web Console
- (menu bar) Tools > Web Developer > Web Console
- (Windows) Ctrl+Shift+k
Then navigate around as you usually do and check for error or security messages. Something new you might see in Firefox 68 would be along the following lines:
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at file:///... (Reason: CORS request not http)
This is caused by a security patch to prevent untrusted local files from reading files in the same folder or subfolders: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/#CVE-2019-11730
If you need to roll back the patch:
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful or accepting the risk.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste uniq and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the privacy.file_unique_origin preference to switch the value from true to false
To mitigate the vulnerability: If you save pages from untrusted sites in a separate folder, e.g., Downloads\Untrusted, then it would be difficult for an attacker to find any valuable content using local file links.
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தீர்வு தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்டது
Hi childsupport, could you check for messages in Firefox's Web Console. You can open the Web Console in the lower part of the tab using either:
- "3-bar" menu button > Web Developer > Web Console
- (menu bar) Tools > Web Developer > Web Console
- (Windows) Ctrl+Shift+k
Then navigate around as you usually do and check for error or security messages. Something new you might see in Firefox 68 would be along the following lines:
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at file:///... (Reason: CORS request not http)
This is caused by a security patch to prevent untrusted local files from reading files in the same folder or subfolders: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/#CVE-2019-11730
If you need to roll back the patch:
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful or accepting the risk.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste uniq and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the privacy.file_unique_origin preference to switch the value from true to false
To mitigate the vulnerability: If you save pages from untrusted sites in a separate folder, e.g., Downloads\Untrusted, then it would be difficult for an attacker to find any valuable content using local file links.
Thanks a million, so back to using firefox again and forget the rest