Reviews for uMatrix
uMatrix by Raymond Hill
665 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12270468, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by cortex359, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by White_Oz, 6 years agoThank you Raymond Hill and good people at Mozilla!
This add-on is amongst the vital add-ons that brings to Firefox users the joy and efficiency of navigating the web. It molds very good to 2 principles that made FF the most powerful(at least before FF v.56) browser : open source(code is open so anyone can take a look at it, and if someone wants to modify, it can fork it respecting the licence) and privacy(respects and help the user when it wants to have at least minimal privacy on the web).
I have learned a lot about how webpages work, using this wonderful add-on. For me, the more functionalities, the merrier!
I have only 2 things that bother me when I use this add-on.
First and the biggest is the fact that I cannot Exclude a few domains while umatrix is enabled for a webpage. What do I mean: when opening a webpage some domains(primary) are green(allowed) and some are red(blocked); say for ex. 4 green and 30 red; I want to keep filtering Enabled but block(make red) only 3; to do this I have to click 1 or 2 times on each row to make them green; that is some 2x27=54 clicks. MY SUGGESTION: while filtering is Enabled, make all rows green(clicking a button or something) and then click only on those rows that you want to block(make red).
<<< Edit ! I see the new * button"Select the global scope to see/create rules which apply everywhere" ; that way I can block a domain everywhere I go.
Still my first point, I cannot see how it can be done in this 1.3.14 version.
!! Would be excellent to be able to whitelist all, then without doing a refresh, to blacklist a few domains while still having the matrix filtering enabled. !!
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Cheers !
<<< Edit
I regularly use a good olderthan56 version of FF, and wrote the review now, without testing the latest addon on the latest FF. After I have tested the latest version(unfortunately it does not work on FF older than 56) of this wonderful add-on, one of the things that bothered me is gone (The second thing is that I cannot make the text bigger( while still umatrix show me all the table when I scroll down). I have already set the Text size to Large in umatrix settings, but when sometimes I stay at 2meters(6.5feet) from the monitor I cannot see the text in umatrix, while I am able to see the text on the Operating System(where I have set the "text scaling factor" to 2.2) and F.F.(where I have set in about:config the "layout.css.devPixelsPerPx" to 1.5).)
>>> - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14033027, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Reajoan Mashfik, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14395760, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14386643, 6 years agoThis is the privacy/security extension I have always wanted. Complete control over what gets blocked with rules which can be whitelists or blacklists, global or local, with an interface which makes specifying complex rulesets as simple and intuitive as is possible.
It requires some tinkering to get all the functionality you need from the web without loading any unnecessary trackers but once you get a good set of rules in place for the sites you use, this is the ultimate *-blocker add-on. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14385443, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14365863, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cirno, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14329427, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14357976, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14346200, 6 years agoExactly what the doctor prescribes. Sufficiently but not excessively fine-grained control over what type of content a site can load from where. IMHO, much better than other, potentially more well known alternatives.
The one thing that could use better documentation is the specifics of the inheritance algorithm. Right now you have to look at the source code if you want to know how it precisely works.
Many thanks to the author indeed. Beautiful addon, conceptually, functionally and interface wise. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14321134, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by pedz, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14083114, 6 years agothank you ! very useful and must-have extension for max security
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14319391, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12786878, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14309082, 6 years agoFunctions great on mobile, albeit a bit tough to navigate and click accurately, but it works like a charm. Must have privacy extension.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aly, 6 years agoBeen using for over a year. It puts the user in control of what touches our browsers in a 'simple' elegant way. I would, however, only recommend this to slightly more advanced users than your typical web surfer (uBlock Origin will cut it for them).
5/5, Second thing I add to a browser after uBO - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14282723, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Zé Ribeiro, 7 years ago