RequestPolicy is a Firefox extension that gives you control over cross-site requests. --- Be sure to look at the dev-1.0 branch as that's where all of the interesting work is happening. See also: https://www.requestpolicy.com/1.0.html
With 0.5-x (0.5.27 in this case) about:blank is not allowed as a source to request everything.
If there isn't a reason for this to be the case, I request to allow about:blank as a source by default.
The reason for this request is the add-on "Tor Flashproxy Badge" which builds on "Flash proxy" and aims to help censored people via the use of WebSockets. The requests normally made by a website are made by the add-on using about:blank to connect to a unknown client and server.
The reason for about:blank being used is that a DOM-tree is required to access Window.WebSocket.
You can look at issue #1 (here on Github) for some information.
The add-on just doesn't work while RequestPolicy is active.
With 0.5-x (0.5.27 in this case) about:blank is not allowed as a source to request everything.
If there isn't a reason for this to be the case, I request to allow about:blank as a source by default.
The reason for this request is the add-on "Tor Flashproxy Badge" which builds on "Flash proxy" and aims to help censored people via the use of WebSockets. The requests normally made by a website are made by the add-on using about:blank to connect to a unknown client and server.
The reason for about:blank being used is that a DOM-tree is required to access Window.WebSocket.
You can look at issue #1 (here on Github) for some information.
The add-on just doesn't work while RequestPolicy is active.