EasyList causes buttons to be disabled on Google Groups

[richfeit]

Sometime recently EasyList started causing buttons in Google Groups to be disabled when they should be enabled. Here is a way to reproduce:

- Install AdBlock/Chrome with only EasyList enabled.
- Sign in with any Google account and join this group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/richf-public/join.
- Go to https://groups.google.com/d/topic/richf ... qPNfGRzMUE (or any topic in the group) and click the "Set as duplicate" button.
- Type "test" in the search box and choose any topic from the list.

If you have Adblock+EasyList installed, the "OK" button will be disabled (incorrect). Without AdBlock installed, or with EasyList disabled, the button will be enabled (correct). I can send screenshots of both situations if that's helpful. It's happening throughout Google Groups in various cases. Can you help me figure out what's going wrong here?

Thanks,
Rich

[crazyskeggy]

Just a note: the OP originally reported this on the AdBlock support site.

You can see the discussion here: http://support.getadblock.com/discussio ... gle-groups

I am posting this to save you asking the same questions I did.

[fanboy]

I don't see any filter in Easylist touching that site, Easyprivacy? sure.

When I do search for a duplicate, its grey'd out unti I finish the word. When I finish typing "Test" for example a auto-complete menu comes down and then the button shows "Ok" fine.

/Tested in Firefox.

[richfeit]

Thanks for trying it out. I should have mentioned that this is reproducible in Chrome on Mac and Linux (I don't have access to a Windows box to check whether it's reproducible on that OS).

[richfeit]

fanboy, do you have any insight into why EasyList would be breaking Google Groups in Chrome?

[Matti Nescio]

This has been going on since early April , but only on Chrome.

Not using the element hiding rules (ie. using EasyList without element hiding rules) is enough to fix the problem.
As is of course whitelisting GDF.

[richfeit]

fanboy, do you have any insight into why EasyList would be breaking Google Groups in Chrome?

There's also a simpler question: are you able to whitelist groups.google.com and productforums.google.com? Neither of those sites serves ads or shows ads.

[fanboy]

Not really the cause of the issue, from what I saw.. infact from what I saw Adblock plus didn't touch any filters on that site. (in Firefox)