HTTP Switchboard for Chrome/Chromium:

Any knowledge if such an extension as 'Tab Activate' has any conflicts with HTTPSB? The extension makes Chrome open links to new tab immediately instead of in the background.

I have never understood Chrome not having an option to do that without an extension the way Firefox has. (Or why people would like to open tabs to the background and then needing to click the tab second time, but each to his/her own.)

This questions arises to my mind even though not possessing much script technology knowledge, but read about inline scripts and other things in this thread. And of course it would be most desirable not to loose any protection of HTTPSB.

 

Actually Chrome has that, too - there are even 2 options: You can middle-click the link, or you can drag the link to the omnibar.

In any case, HTTPSB will protect you.

 

My links clicked with the middle button always open in background without that 'Tab Activate' extension and not active, omnibar I don't know what that is.

 

Sorry, it should read omnibox (which is the address bar).

And even that one was wrong - I actually meant the tab bar.

 

There should be no conflict, they do completely different things, they don't overlap in functionality.

 

V. 0.8.1.0 (and 0.8.1.1) bring important improvements. Excellent work, Raymond! One step closer towards perfection

 

Again, best privacy app ever!

 

when i visit warfaresims.com i get a red place-holder for Facebook, which disappears after about 30 seconds:

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=EA8691778410F0B6!1092&authkey=!AOfDVIX0PSNcVFk&v=3&ithint=photo%2c.png

 

Strange thing happened to me yesterday. I am facing strange issues with chrome

1) Out of no where, when i opened chrome yesterday, all my extensions were gone. Clean slate .the only different thing i did was ran ccleaner. Anyone faced this kind of issue here? I see a google product post with the same from last year, with no solution. (to be on the safer side, i checked the sys with hmp and mbam - no issues)

2) My system becomes slower after watching flash videos, say after 2 hours of watching. CPU clock is set to 0.90 to 0.92 and usage is set to 40%
Only resolution is to restart the machine.

I am happy to use firefox, itz quick and no issues with it. But httpsb addon makes me to come back to chrome..

B/w this is laptop with 8.1

 

Regarding graylisting and click to play, don't you have to allow things twice, once in HTTP SB and then click to to play, for them to work? Or am I missing the point here?

 

That's the way the site is designed. Seen in debug console: "fb:like failed to resize in 45s". So it looks like after 45s of failure to resize, the facebook iframe sizes are set to 0px x 0px. I think it is quite silly for the site to make the default size of the facebook iframes so large, 450px x 1000px, as they are supposed to end up as facebook "like" button. Whitelisting "frame" for "facebook.com" will fix the problem.

It would have been much smarter of the web designer of that site to set the facebook iframes to something closer to the final properly rendered size.

 

No you are not missing the point. If you don't want two clicks, just whitelist the "plugin" category -- and padlock to make it permanent if you wish. Then the only thing getting in the way of a plugin executing will be your express permission, rather than HTTPSB + your express permission.

 

There is a "Task Manager" tool in Chrome "Tools" menu, you might want to use it to find out what part of Chrome, if any (could also be elsewhere I suppose), is consuming CPU resource.

 

Anyone have a white list for foxnews, Keeping the bare basics and allowing for the comments section to become visible? Every time I try a new combo, another slew of columns shows up. The pre-load list works just fine for reading the articles and seeing the pics, but not so much for the comments sections.

 

thanks for the tip gorhill. Although it does not reflect when systems comes to crawl.

I think i almost figured, it to be rather CPU ventilation problem, causing system (CPU) to run at rather lower fixed clock speed (.90 GHz).

Changed the way i use it on the bed, and almost for 4-6 hours of video play in chrome, did not result any slow down. will keep monitoring.

 

By the way just discovered the Auto create temporary site-level scope option. A huge time saver for when I'm heading to say a news site and don't want to filter anything out, just click once and move on

 

Well, that wasn't easy to figure the minimum set of missing rules, but here it is:

Code:

script d134l0cdryxgwa.cloudfront.net
script d16s8pqtk4uodx.cloudfront.net
script widget-cdn.rpxnow.com
script backplane1.janrainbackplane.com

These will allow the third-party Livefyre commenting system to work properly.

These changes will be part of the Fox News preset recipe in the next release (which will also support the update of assets, so next time to get the changes it will be just a matter of clicking an "update" button.)

 

wow thanks gorhill. It was getting frustrating trying to whitelist one rule to allow another, but I suppose it goes to show you how many requests a page can actually call, much like dominoes with the continuous action

Keep up the great work, HTTP Switchboard is simply the best

 

Are you sure you want comments so badly? Look around http://janrain.com

Some "integrations" to watch out for: http://janrain.com/product/integrations/

 

I hadn't look further... Thanks for the warning. I will instead create a recipe "Fox News comments" to mitigate this for Fox News readers.

Edit: I added "janrainbackplane.com" to HTTPSB's own blacklist, because of "Easily visualize, segment and update customer profiles to enable true personalized marketing". A user will still be able to enable comments through 3rd-party recipe "Fox News comments", but at least now he will be able to see in the matrix that two of the required hostnames are blacklisted.

 

FWIW, it was a quick look but all four of those hosts looked Janrain related to me. I understand you are trying to strike a balance Gorhill. My message was mainly for those users who will ask things of you...

Decide what you want after you know what it will cost you!

 

Hello,

How does HTTP Switchboard compare with ScriptSafe?

 

ScriptSafe is highly unreliable.

 

Thanks, tlu.

I just tried all the links provided and all the links passed, they came up as 'JavaScript disabled'.

I am using ScriptSafe v1.0.6.16.

I suppose it could be in my configuration.

 

In order to make HTTP Switchboard a better alternative to other existing blockers, I have decided to enable all preset lists of blocked hosts out of the box, except for the huge "hosts-file.net/hosts.txt".

This way, using HTTPSB in allow-all/block-exceptionally mode become a viable alternative to other blockers. New benchmark posted today which shows the new ranking of HTTPSB^AA/BX is now second, from 4th:

https://github.com/gorhill/httpswit...d-blockers:-Top-15-Most-Popular-News-Websites

You don't really have to wait for v0.8.3.0, just enable all preset lists in the Ubiquitous rules tab -- except for the last one (it's huge, takes a lot of memory,and it appears to have false positives in it) will give you same results as above benchmark.