# OK, XP Home (go ahead, giggle) SP2, Mozilla - Howcome javascript don't work?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-xp-home-go-ahead-giggle-sp2-mozilla-howcome-javascript-dont-work/272124
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 31, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-xp-home-go-ahead-giggle-sp2-mozilla-howcome-javascript-dont-work/272124 "2004-10-31T04:25:55Z")
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### Author:  [@DantesTenth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DantesTenth)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-xp-home-go-ahead-giggle-sp2-mozilla-howcome-javascript-dont-work/272124/1 "2004-10-31T04:25:55Z")
OK,
Mixed messages in the OP/browser - I decided to go with SP2, but abandoned IE over security issues. Also have PC-cillin and “Pop-up Stopper Free Edition” running.
Whenever I click on many, many links, I get a completely-blank, white window, with the immediate message of ‘done’. I Googled, checked the “Computer Q” sticky, got “develop and/or hack protected pages” and nothing, respectively.
So - before I turn off the firewall (just as soon as the proverbial ice is a foot thick) or the pop-up killer, what do I do?
(and: no, holding CTL while clicking the link does not solve the problem).
I do mainframe, and can stumble through PC and C/S, but this is such an obvious thing, I can’t easily find the problem.
TIA
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### Author:  [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-xp-home-go-ahead-giggle-sp2-mozilla-howcome-javascript-dont-work/272124/2 "2004-10-31T10:54:35Z")
I can’t find anything reported in [Bugzilla](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org). What version of Mozilla are you on? I’m on 1.8 rc2 and have had no SP2 problems.
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### Author:  [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-xp-home-go-ahead-giggle-sp2-mozilla-howcome-javascript-dont-work/272124/3 "2004-10-31T14:03:26Z")
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- SP2 turns off a bunch of things that reasonable people leave turned on. First of all, go into the “edit”-\>“preferences” of Mozilla and check the “advanced” section, in the “scripts and plugins” and see that Javascript is enabled for web browsing. SP2 didn’t turn this off on me, but just to make sure.
- Then go into “my computer”, “internet options”, hit the “advanced” tab and scroll down to the second section “Browsing” and there’s a checkbox that says something like “Enable third-party browser extensions”. You need that checked.
- If you cannot view Flash or javascript files saved on your own computer or on a CD, then go back into “my computer”, “internet options”, hit the “advanced” tab and scroll down to the bottom section and there’s two checkboxes. One says “allow active files to run on My Computer” and another that says “allow active content to run off of CD”.
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### Author:  [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-xp-home-go-ahead-giggle-sp2-mozilla-howcome-javascript-dont-work/272124/4 "2004-10-31T14:07:48Z")
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- It is also my opinion that MS’s firewall and popup blocker already sucks. If you want a firewall then use ZoneAlarm, it tells you _everything_ where the MS one only stops non-MS programs getting through and sooner or later hackers will figure out how to get through the MS one _because of that reason_. …And Mozilla has its own built-in pop-up blocker that works just fine, you won’t need anything else.
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-xp-home-go-ahead-giggle-sp2-mozilla-howcome-javascript-dont-work/272124/5 "2004-10-31T14:08:13Z")
Why giggle? XP Home and XP Pro are among the most stable and powerful general use OSes ever released.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-xp-home-go-ahead-giggle-sp2-mozilla-howcome-javascript-dont-work/272124/6 "2004-10-31T14:41:04Z")
> [@DougC](#):
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> - SP2 turns off a bunch of things that reasonable people leave turned on. First of all, go into the “edit”-\>“preferences” of Mozilla and check the “advanced” section, in the “scripts and plugins” and see that Javascript is enabled for web browsing. SP2 didn’t turn this off on me, but just to make sure.
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> - Then go into “my computer”, “internet options”, hit the “advanced” tab and scroll down to the second section “Browsing” and there’s a checkbox that says something like “Enable third-party browser extensions”. You need that checked.
> - If you cannot view Flash or javascript files saved on your own computer or on a CD, then go back into “my computer”, “internet options”, hit the “advanced” tab and scroll down to the bottom section and there’s two checkboxes. One says “allow active files to run on My Computer” and another that says “allow active content to run off of CD”.
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Would these settings affect the OP’s Mozilla? I suspect they only apply to using IE.
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### Author:  [@DantesTenth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DantesTenth)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-xp-home-go-ahead-giggle-sp2-mozilla-howcome-javascript-dont-work/272124/7 "2004-10-31T16:42:45Z")
> [@DougC](#):
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> - SP2 turns off a bunch of things that reasonable people leave turned on. First of all, go into the “edit”-\>“preferences” of Mozilla and check the “advanced” section, in the “scripts and plugins” and see that Javascript is enabled for web browsing. SP2 didn’t turn this off on me, but just to make sure.
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> - Then go into “my computer”, “internet options”, hit the “advanced” tab and scroll down to the second section “Browsing” and there’s a checkbox that says something like “Enable third-party browser extensions”. You need that checked.
Couldn’t find any reference to 3rd party extensions
> [@DougC](#):
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> - If you cannot view Flash or javascript files saved on your own computer or on a CD, then go back into “my computer”, “internet options”, hit the “advanced” tab and scroll down to the bottom section and there’s two checkboxes. One says “allow active files to run on My Computer” and another that says “allow active content to run off of CD”.
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I checked the “allow active content on my computer” (“allow active content on CD” was already checked) - Let’s see.
Thanks!