What are the "Must Have" extensions for Firefox

[m00nbl00d]

Is anyone familar with a similar extension to Nimi Web Cleaner (Chrome extension that blocks ads and trackers based on regular expressions) for Firefox?

[vasa1]

Originally Posted by m00nbl00d

Is anyone familar with a similar extension to Nimi Web Cleaner (Chrome extension that blocks ads and trackers based on regular expressions) for Firefox?

Why the insistence on regex? There's nothing special about regex, AFAICT. Regex can easily have unintended consequences and making successful exceptions to regex isn't the simplest thing. From what I saw of Nimi, one had to depend on the author's lists in any case.

[m00nbl00d]

Originally Posted by vasa1

Why the insistence on regex? There's nothing special about regex, AFAICT. Regex can easily have unintended consequences and making successful exceptions to regex isn't the simplest thing. From what I saw of Nimi, one had to depend on the author's lists in any case.

Well, the main reason being that I actually like Nimi Web Cleanser. It may break something, but it does allow exclusions in a per-site basis, for the different shields. But, is there anything not breaking anything?

Anyway, was just wondering if there's anything similar for Firefox?

By the way, apparently Do Not Track Plus for Firefox, by Abine, also allows to add Internet Explorer TPLs, but only from one of Microsoft TPL URLs. I don't recall which one; but, you can't add TPLs from Fanboy's website, for instance.

[kupo]

Originally Posted by m00nbl00d

Is anyone familar with a similar extension to Nimi Web Cleaner (Chrome extension that blocks ads and trackers based on regular expressions) for Firefox?

Try looking at Karma Blocker

[vasa1]

Originally Posted by skudo12

Try looking at Karma Blocker

Have you tried it and are you using it? I did for a while and have a thread somewhere here. I found it quite difficult to understand.

SimpleBlock is easier but getting the exceptions right is tough.

[m00nbl00d]

Originally Posted by skudo12

Try looking at Karma Blocker

Thanks!

I downloaded it, and it does have some regex entries. It will take sometime to learn how to configure it properly, though. The official website isn't very helpful.

It has a default list, so it should make it easier to understand how it works.



By the way, is anyone familiar with an extention that allows controlling JavaScript like Chrome does? There are two things I like about Chrome, regarding JavaScript. When JavaScript is blocked, it reveals a JavaScript icon in the address bar where the user can allow it, and it's also possible to whitelist/blacklist by TLD (top level domain, such as *.com, etc). I wish this could be possible in Firefox, but so far found no extension. Bummer.

[moontan]

Originally Posted by m00nbl00d

By the way, is anyone familiar with an extention that allows controlling JavaScript like Chrome does? There are two things I like about Chrome, regarding JavaScript. When JavaScript is blocked, it reveals a JavaScript icon in the address bar where the user can allow it, and it's also possible to whitelist/blacklist by TLD (top level domain, such as *.com, etc). I wish this could be possible in Firefox, but so far found no extension. Bummer.

NoScript?

anyway, i may have changed my mind about blocking javascripts.
the web is not what it was 5 years ago and js are becoming more and more present everywhere.
which makes it even more of a headache trying to manage all this.

i think trying to 'fight' js is a losing proposition.

[m00nbl00d]

Originally Posted by moontan

NoScript?

anyway, i may have changed my mind about blocking javascripts.
the web is not what it was 5 years ago and js are becoming more and more present everywhere.
which makes it even more of a headache trying to manage all this.

i think trying to 'fight' js is a losing proposition.

Not really what I want, though. I started to wonder, after seeing it as a reply to one of my security measures in Chromium, regarding JavaScript. http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showp...44&postcount=7

Considering that user x942 mentions even better than NoScript, I'm assuming he/she is doing the same for Firefox. The thing is, there's no way to do it natively, so it must be some extension... other than NoScript.

It's amazing the amount of extensions I got to use to have the minimal experience I got with Chromium, natively.

[tlu]

Originally Posted by vasa1

Why the insistence on regex? There's nothing special about regex, AFAICT. Regex can easily have unintended consequences and making successful exceptions to regex isn't the simplest thing.

Right. Besides, ABP also uses Regex. But Wladimir Palant found that this can slow down the extension: That's why the ABP filter lists have been using "simple" rules for quite some time.

[vasa1]

Originally Posted by tlu

Right. Besides, ABP also uses Regex. But Wladimir Palant found that this can slow down the extension: That's why the ABP filter lists have been using "simple" rules for quite some time.

I mentioned elsewhere that I've given up trying other blockers and Privoxy and am now using just ABP (though I'm still not using any of the pre-made filter lists).

Originally Posted by m00nbl00d

By the way, is anyone familiar with an extention that allows controlling JavaScript like Chrome does? There are two things I like about Chrome, regarding JavaScript. When JavaScript is blocked, it reveals a JavaScript icon in the address bar where the user can allow it, and it's also possible to whitelist/blacklist by TLD (top level domain, such as *.com, etc). I wish this could be possible in Firefox, but so far found no extension. Bummer.

I think NoScript has that functionality. See: http://noscript.net/features/#blacklist

[m00nbl00d]

Originally Posted by skudo12

NoTrace
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/notrace

Have you tried it?

[Pinga]

NoTrace is a project by ISISLab of the Informatics department of the University of Salerno:

NoTrace provides support for (novice and expert) users, awareness about privacy loss and personalized recommendations to limit it.

It is still a bit rough around the edges and sluggish, but quite comprehensive and promising!

http://isis.dia.unisa.it/projects/NoTrace/index.html

[LockBox]

Wow - a thread started six and a half years ago. That can be dangerous if someone is not paying attention to the date.


For me:

- Readability
- ABP
- Springpad
- Roboform Pro

Some interesting things mentioned. I'm going to check a couple out - especially RefControl.

[Daveski17]

Originally Posted by LockBox

Wow - a thread started six and a half years ago. That can be dangerous if someone is not paying attention to the date.


For me:

- Readability

I like Readability as well. Have you ever used Reader 3.4?

[Pinga]

Originally Posted by LockBox

especially RefControl.

Don't forget RequestPolicy:

https://www.requestpolicy.com/

[m00nbl00d]

Originally Posted by Pinga

Don't forget RequestPolicy:

https://www.requestpolicy.com/

I gave it a try, and it does work great. That's its problem. After installing, I opened Softpedia and PCWorld, and to be able to view those websites properly, I had to create quite a few exception rules. Sadly, by right-clicking RP icon, we can only temporarily allow the scripts. Then, in the Preferences, there's no way to double-click Temporary to make it permanent. I actually had to write those rules from scratch again. Bummer.

I hope they can solve this, somehow. I'll have to see how to create a file to import those rules; maybe it gets easier that way.

Anyway, nice extension.

[tlu]

Originally Posted by m00nbl00d

I hope they can solve this, somehow. I'll have to see how to create a file to import those rules; maybe it gets easier that way.

Well, that's easy since you can export your rules to a text file. You'll see that it's a very simple one.

BTW, have you noticed that RP offers an Initial Configuration button that adds a lot of default rules which make life a bit easier?

[m00nbl00d]

Originally Posted by tlu

Well, that's easy since you can export your rules to a text file. You'll see that it's a very simple one.

Yes, it is.

BTW, have you noticed that RP offers an Initial Configuration button that adds a lot of default rules which make life a bit easier?

I did. Unfortunately, it only has services that are used by millions of users. So, Softpedia, etc are out of the equation. But, it's great it has that default list.

[Pinga]

This is cute:

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-eng...name=sitecheck

http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/

[m00nbl00d]

Originally Posted by Sadeghi85

It's possible, but it's not the most easy-to-use tool for the job, I use HttpFox for that purpose.

But I use that feature to create my own blocklist, you'd be surprised by the number of tracking urls that aren't blocked by easylist and fanboy.
[...]

That extension is really great, if you're used to Chromium. It's a nice replacement to Chromium's native features chrome://net-internals/#dns and chrome://net-internals/#events.

[Ashanta]

What about starting a Private Browsing along with the old 'Anonymizer Nevercookie' + Ghostery add-ons ?

[m00nbl00d]

Originally Posted by Ashanta

What about starting a Private Browsing along with the old 'Anonymizer Nevercookie' + Ghostery add-ons ?

I'm running Firefox with Private Browsing + RequestPolicy + AdBlock Plus with Fanboy Complete Adblock and country specific list + Abine DNT+. I also have a few more extensions, but not related with quite related with privacy...

DNT+ blocks what RequestPolicy can't block and whatever Fanboy's list doesn't have. I've seen it blocking a few trackers, especially from Omniture.

I wasn't familiar with Anonymizer Nevercookie. Will have to take a look at it.

[xxJackxx]

Originally Posted by Pinga

Don't forget RequestPolicy:

https://www.requestpolicy.com/

I tried it for a few days a while back. It was just WAY too much work to use.

[tlu]

Originally Posted by m00nbl00d

DNT+ blocks what RequestPolicy can't block

Hm, what would that be? AFAIK, RP blocks what you don't explicitly allow.