IE aborting plugin script causes JQuery problems on site

Question

I am working on a https website and a plugin totally unrelated to my site (requesting http elements) was causing security problems.

I have disabled (Windows) Internet Options -> Security -> Mixed Mode (so that we cannot fetch http resources from a https site).

With this restriction in place IE9 will abort a script run by the plugin requesting http elements whenever I'm on a https site (in this case the offending plugin is http://www.freemake.com/ video downloader). Console output: SEC7111: HTTPS security is compromised by http://download.freemake.com/images/arrow.png -link to my https site- SCRIPT16388: Operation aborted This abort happens after/end-of $(document).ready(...).

What happens next however is causing me some headaches... SCRIPT438: Object doesn't support property or method 'cookie' This is refering to the $.cookie function (it also happens with many other jQuery functions).

Various functions of jQuery are seemingly disabled or removed. I run some console logs before the above abort operation: LOG: jQuery.cookie >>> true LOG: $.cookie >>> true LOG: jQuery >>> true LOG: $ >>> true

As you can see they exist. After the abort operation I call the logs again:

LOG: jQuery.cookie >>> false LOG: $.cookie >>> false LOG: jQuery >>> true LOG: $ >>> true

How could the abort operation of the plugin script affect my site? The site is hosting it's own jQuery lib.

Answer 1

It's likely they are sharing the same global variable "$" to remove it from global scope use

jQuery.noConflict();

then assign it to new variable like this

$j = jQuery;