Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] LibreJS: even when whitelisted, tv.nrk.no does not play

[Mart Rootamm]

Marco,

with NoScript, I found out the following domains that tv.nrk.no uses:

static.nrk.no
innlogging.nrk.no
psapi-ne.nrk.no
dc.services.visualstudio.com

With these unblocked, the Flash player launched, and a trailer for a
new tv show played. Though I don't use LibreJS.

With Network Inspector, I got a few more:

az416426.vo.msecnd.net — a Microsoft Azure domain. The important part
is vo.msecnd.net
nrk-od-08.akamaized.net — video stream

-M.


2018-01-28 17:00 GMT +02:00, Marco van Hulten <address@hidden>:
> Bill—
>
> Thank you for your response.  I think I can roughly interpret it as
> that it would be best to wait until the FFv57+ equivalent of IceCat has
> arrived to GuixSD and/or Parabola before using LibreJS again on those
> systems.
>
> Je 28 jan 07:20 skribis bill-auger:
>> this is probably not related to icecat but a bug in librejs itself -
>> unless you can show that the same behavior is not present using a
>> different browser such as firefox or iceweasel, then this is actually an
>> issue for the librejs mailing list -
>
> On my Debian 9.3 (stretch) laptop with Firefox 52.6.0 with LibreJS
> 6.0.13, videos on https://tv.nrk.no/ do play when I add tv.nrk.no to
> the whitelist.
>
> The same version of LibreJS with IceCat 52.3.0 (on both GuixSD and
> Parabola) does not work when tv.nrk.no is added to the exception list.
> However, I now found out that it does when I add *.nrk.no to that list.
>
> In short, there appears to be difference between the system with
> Firefox and the systems with IceCat, but it may be too minor or unclear
> to report on this at another place.
>
>> although there is little point in
>> reporting it now as the version of librejs in the current version of
>> icecat has been obsoleted by mozilla starting with v57; so that librejs
>> development is now entirely focussed on the new FFv57+ compatible
>> version - what this means unfortunately for now is that it is highly
>> doubtful that the version of librejs in icecat will ever be upgraded or
>> have any bugs fixed - so whatever problems you have today with librejs
>> will remain until the next release of icecat; which should be compatible
>> with the new version of librejs
>
> On my Ubuntu 16.04 laptop I run Firefox 58.0.  There I could not
> install LibreJS 6.0.13.  On the Mozilla Add-ons site there is a newer
> version of LibreJS 7.11 available.  It is where the GNU website links
> to, so it should be an official version, but this is puzzling [1]:
>
>> The LibreJS source files can be found via HTTPS:
>> librejs-6.0.13.tar.gz (462K). Or FTP: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/librejs/.
>> It can also be found on the GNU mirrors. This link will automatically
>> select a mirror for you. LibreJS is also available at the Mozilla
>> Add-ons site. Due to Mozilla's review process, the version of LibreJS
>> available at the Add-ons site is often outdated. This isn't in our
>> control.
>
> [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/
>
> It appears that it is outdated on the official website, or at least
> that GNU only offers the pre-FFv57 version of LibreJS.
>
> With LibreJS 7.11 the issue was more or less the same as for LibreJS
> 6.0.13 (on other systems): the video did not play (whereas it does
> when the extension is disabled).  But now, after removing and
> installing the extension again from Mozilla, it does work, even without
> adding domains to the whitelist.  Furthermore, the LibreJS button is
> an empty icon; I found it by hovering over an apparently empty space at
> the top-right of the window (next to Adblock Plus and so on).  When I
> click on it, nothing happens.  All seems fine and thus according to
> LibreJS 7.11 on this Ubuntu system at this point in time does not use
> any non-free JavaScript.
>
> I realise that all this information can be confusion.  I was not sure
> what was important to mention, so I decided to report all my findings
> here.
>
> —Marco
>