Vurdering for NoScript Security Suite
NoScript Security Suite av Giorgio Maone
Vurdering av Firefox-brukar 13446037
Vurdering: 3 av 5
av Firefox-brukar 13446037, 8 år sidanWebExtension is a big change, so former NoScript is dead and NoScript 10 is just a new extension.
Hopefully the developer will probably recover some advanced features of the XUL version, but it will take time we must be patient.
As today, there is no alternative on Firefox 57.
It seems that developer of the excellent ScriipSafe on Chrome Webstore doesn't want to port it on Firefox.
He could have done this for Microsoft Edge since a long time, and nothing has been done.
And surfing without a script controller is I M P O S S I B L E
.
I just don't understand why Mozilla team has not developed a basic embedded javascript manager as it was in the very good former Opera 16 (presto engine), so it could have let all the time to the third party developers to create a more advanced extension.
This is not acceptable, THIS IS A VERY BIG FAULT from Mozilla.
The main issue I could address now to the developer is :
1) no possibility to grant authorization to a full domain (this is a big difference with ScripSafe which lets the choice to the user)
Example : I want to authorize domain and all subdomain of the CDN provider Akamai, This si possible with scripsafe by using the "trust" option instead of "allow", it is not possible here
I want to authorize all Akamai because due to load balancing process the CDN server may change a lot, and so you still need to allow various subdomain. Maybe the developer could implement very quickly a joker system allowing to enter domains like :
*.akamai.net
*.hd.akamai.net
In first case we allow every subdomain of akamai.net
In the second case we limit to every subdomain of hd.akamai.net
2) No synchornization option
Ideally, NoScript should store the users data in cloud through the Firefox account as ScripSafe does in the Google Account.
But maybe it is not possible according to the Firefox account policy, so the workaround should be to be able to synchronize data to/from a local path on the computer.
One just have to create this path in a OneDrive or Google Drive synchronized directory...and this should be done.
I have several computer, each computer has several users session, this is just annoying to set up NosSript for each repeating always the same process. And when I set up a new computer, I must restart from the beginning.
With ScripSafe, this is very easy... the extension automatically download and upload to Google Accounts (one must activate such option).
If ScripSafe is ever ported to Firefox with the same functionalities, I drop NoScript
3) Slow GUI
As today, the NoScript GUI is I N C R E D I B L Y slow.
As a comparison ScripSafe is incredibly fast to display the distant hosts list
But this version is a kind of quick done dirty version, let's be patient, this will be probably fixed in the future, but developer must know that the situation is as today not acceptable. I also suspect that NoScript 10 slows down the browser
4) Inefficient filtering mechanism
In the former XUL extension, the filtering engine of NoScript was crappy as it was oftenly forgetting a lot of distant host.
So one needed sometimes to switch to "allow all scripts" to see these hosts, and go back to "forbide all scripts", and so we could set rules for theses invisible hosts.
As compared, ScripSafe was far better as there was not such issues.
Finally.... XUL NoScript is dead and this is a very good thing because the filtering engine of NoScript was outdated and the author didn't want to admit that.
Let's see now if this brand new Web Extension addresses such issues, I can't say at this moment.
Hopefully the developer will probably recover some advanced features of the XUL version, but it will take time we must be patient.
As today, there is no alternative on Firefox 57.
It seems that developer of the excellent ScriipSafe on Chrome Webstore doesn't want to port it on Firefox.
He could have done this for Microsoft Edge since a long time, and nothing has been done.
And surfing without a script controller is I M P O S S I B L E
.
I just don't understand why Mozilla team has not developed a basic embedded javascript manager as it was in the very good former Opera 16 (presto engine), so it could have let all the time to the third party developers to create a more advanced extension.
This is not acceptable, THIS IS A VERY BIG FAULT from Mozilla.
The main issue I could address now to the developer is :
1) no possibility to grant authorization to a full domain (this is a big difference with ScripSafe which lets the choice to the user)
Example : I want to authorize domain and all subdomain of the CDN provider Akamai, This si possible with scripsafe by using the "trust" option instead of "allow", it is not possible here
I want to authorize all Akamai because due to load balancing process the CDN server may change a lot, and so you still need to allow various subdomain. Maybe the developer could implement very quickly a joker system allowing to enter domains like :
*.akamai.net
*.hd.akamai.net
In first case we allow every subdomain of akamai.net
In the second case we limit to every subdomain of hd.akamai.net
2) No synchornization option
Ideally, NoScript should store the users data in cloud through the Firefox account as ScripSafe does in the Google Account.
But maybe it is not possible according to the Firefox account policy, so the workaround should be to be able to synchronize data to/from a local path on the computer.
One just have to create this path in a OneDrive or Google Drive synchronized directory...and this should be done.
I have several computer, each computer has several users session, this is just annoying to set up NosSript for each repeating always the same process. And when I set up a new computer, I must restart from the beginning.
With ScripSafe, this is very easy... the extension automatically download and upload to Google Accounts (one must activate such option).
If ScripSafe is ever ported to Firefox with the same functionalities, I drop NoScript
3) Slow GUI
As today, the NoScript GUI is I N C R E D I B L Y slow.
As a comparison ScripSafe is incredibly fast to display the distant hosts list
But this version is a kind of quick done dirty version, let's be patient, this will be probably fixed in the future, but developer must know that the situation is as today not acceptable. I also suspect that NoScript 10 slows down the browser
4) Inefficient filtering mechanism
In the former XUL extension, the filtering engine of NoScript was crappy as it was oftenly forgetting a lot of distant host.
So one needed sometimes to switch to "allow all scripts" to see these hosts, and go back to "forbide all scripts", and so we could set rules for theses invisible hosts.
As compared, ScripSafe was far better as there was not such issues.
Finally.... XUL NoScript is dead and this is a very good thing because the filtering engine of NoScript was outdated and the author didn't want to admit that.
Let's see now if this brand new Web Extension addresses such issues, I can't say at this moment.
2 448 vurderingar
- Vurdering: 5 av 5av Shanrya, 17 timar sidan
- Vurdering: 5 av 5av Firefox-brukar 19806246, 7 dagar sidanThis is one of the most distinctive Firefox add-ons for me. To be honest, I'm not using it right now because I'm still learning how to use it more effectively. I'm actually trying to learn more about internet security, and I've noticed that using this add-on is great for protecting your privacy from malicious JavaScript. I highly recommend it. Thank you.
- Vurdering: 5 av 5av Heather, 12 dagar sidanProbably one of the most essential addons for firefox, next to ublock. Great for security but it's recommended to have a tech background cuz the default settings can break many sites.
- Vurdering: 5 av 5av Rifat, ein månad sidan
- Vurdering: 5 av 5av noewaeda, ein månad sidanit's an essential extension. without it, using the internet is like walking directly into a warzone.
on the strict setting, it makes browsing slightly more clunky due to having to give websites some trust, but it's usually not that big of a deal. - Vurdering: 5 av 5av Max Rower, ein månad sidan
- Vurdering: 2 av 5av fidius, ein månad sidanI uninstalled this extension because it randomly started interfering with browsing due to some nonsense swipe-style gesture 'feature'. Used to be a good extension but I'm not inclined to trust it anymore.
- Vurdering: 5 av 5av Firefox-brukar 19773062, ein månad sidanDue to a bug that effected mobile scrolling, I disabled Noscript for a day and discovered what a horrible experience browsing was without it.
It seems the bug is now fixed, and in record time too. Thanks Giorgio. Fantastic extension. - Vurdering: 5 av 5av Tsuki, ein månad sidan
- Vurdering: 5 av 5av tt, ein månad sidanNew update gesture feature needs to be removed. Disabling the extention until it's fixed
updating to 5 stars now that gesture feature is turned off by default - Vurdering: 1 av 5av Kval, ein månad sidanRemove gestures or add an option to disable this clunky gesture feature in the settings in the next update. Scrolling is impossible with the current update. For this reason alone, I'm removing this very useful extension for now, until they fix this annoying feature.
- Vurdering: 1 av 5av Radosław, ein månad sidan
- Vurdering: 1 av 5av fcat435, ein månad sidanHad to disable the extension because it prevented me from scrolling on pages.
- Vurdering: 2 av 5av Firefox-brukar 12969656, ein månad sidanDitch the gesture on mobile function and will be a 5* extension again.
- Vurdering: 3 av 5av Firefox-brukar 13428877, ein månad sidanI use it a lot and it has been a great tool but had to drop the rating after the new gesture system has been added since for a while I had no idea it had been added and it has made browsing a complete hell on mobile because it can't be disabled so I will have to disable the app until then.
- Vurdering: 2 av 5av Vee, ein månad sidanWas good, but the new gesture system is horrible and makes scrolling on mobile more trouble than it's worth.
This should have never been implemented silently in the background without an option to disable, to begin with. No idea what the dev was thinking.
Had to disable Noscript on mobile until it's fixed. - Vurdering: 5 av 5av Ivan, ein månad sidanThe whole gesture idea thing. First, accessing the settings in Firefox android is the same number of ui interactions once the new ui layout is learned. Second, Imagine if another extension did what you decided to do (the whole Old New Thing "Imagine if two programs did this"). Third, I cannot believe your awesome extension can still be Mozilla recommended after this. 🙁
- Vurdering: 1 av 5av Firefox-brukar 18205130, ein månad sidanNow, when I accidentally hold down on the screen, the selection randomly appears. It turns out this extension is to blame. How can I disable it? I can't find anything in the settings. Please give us the opportunity to remove this "gesture".
- Vurdering: 2 av 5av Firefox-brukar 17307430, ein månad sidan
- Vurdering: 3 av 5av Oi you, ein månad sidanI'd rate this significantly higher, but 13.6.3 added some annoying gesture nonsense on mobile that's bloody inconvenient and doesn't have any obvious off switch.
- Vurdering: 1 av 5av xorek, ein månad sidanWas great, but now there is an annoying gesture function I cannot disable. Trying to browse and a slight movement to the corners on the left will start drawing. I have a disability that causes finger twitching, so this idiotic feature constantly activates. New features should always default to off. Review from android phone. Edit: Downgraded to a previous version worked at least. Still keeping 1 star because of this stupid decision to not have a toggle. Way to not care about people with disabilities...
- Vurdering: 1 av 5av Firefox-brukar 18210165, ein månad sidanThis new gesture "feature" (more like a bug) really ruins things. Put it back how it was.
- Vurdering: 5 av 5av Firefox-brukar 19770324, ein månad sidanThank you for making the gestures optional again, this extension is back to being awesome!
- Vurdering: 5 av 5av Firefox-brukar 14489384, ein månad sidan