Yes, and that's why I believe that µMatrix will work better for people like me, who don't need full blocking power.
Right. I was just pointing out the obvious about the addon being not fully reviewed by AMO in case anyone has missed it. About how is the performance of the addon itself was not part of my intentions.
Version 0.17.2 Released January 2, 2015 222.8 kB Works with Firefox 29.0 and later 0.17.2 Removed redundant debug code 0.17.1 Russian localization updated Bugs fixed 0.17 Added export and import preferences pages Fixed second-level country domains (like "co.uk") handling French localization by Wassss Russian localization by Halibut80 Fixed preferences page (nightly e10s) Various minor fixes
Version 0.18.1 Released January 18, 2015 234.8 kB Works with Firefox 29.0 and later -Added https sandbox ruleset -RequestPolicy rules import added -Handle tricky favicon requests -Localizations updated -Ruleset minilanguage parsing fixed (if you were trying custom rulesets, they should work) -Simple domains blacklist (just a file with domains) and hosts file format support. (A brief explanation) -Various minor fixes
I'm using this thing now... Oh man, this is brilliant. I love the UI. The lack of alarmist advertising is also much appreciated. My one critique is the color scheme and fonts. Even for someone with good full-color vision, the popup is a bit low-contrast. I would make the background a bit lighter, and maybe use bold fonts.
The extension is good, however, I don't like the GUI at all. µMatrix is much more user-friendly and overseeable, IMHO. I hope that gorhill will find the time to port it to Firefox before long.
playing with this now before I try umatrix and it seems buggy?, check my screenshot it slows the same request multiple times, sometimes allowed sometimes blocked. Also note there is an allow rule I made, yet still the blocks.
Further update, seems it is a bug, have to duplicate the tab or close and reopen tab to make it show correct info. I have been using this for a few hours, configuring whitelists as I go along. I set default deny to scripts,objects,media, frames. So policeman is not doing its default allow 1st party scripts, frames etc. Browsing feels slower than noscript filtering and the browser memory consumption is also way higher. I also feel I prefer noscript simplification in terms of how the whitelisting works. Will try umatrix later today or tomorrow.
Seems wrong (FUD) to describe policeman as "abandoned". This page indicates the most recent code commit was 16 days ago: https://github.com/futpib/policeman
