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Is uBlock going to have a better way to manipulate filter settings anytime soon? A few of my filters that work great in ABP cause weird changes to sites in uBlock, and it's very hard to troubleshoot when you all get is that big ol plain text list in the settings page.
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Nintendo Kid posted:Is uBlock going to have a better way to manipulate filter settings anytime soon? A few of my filters that work great in ABP cause weird changes to sites in uBlock, and it's very hard to troubleshoot when you all get is that big ol plain text list in the settings page. Go ask the dev at his Github page.
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Jan 25, 2015 12:07
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Now that there's a better version of AdBlock, is there a better replacement for No Scripts?
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Jan 27, 2015 14:32
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What's your beef with No Scripts,? it's pretty drat perfect in my eyes. There are alternatives sure, such as RequestPolicy and that may give you more control over what gets through, but comes at a greater cost of "pain in the rear end to configure".
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Jan 27, 2015 14:51
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Eh, more robust synching would be nice. I thought I'd set it up, but it isn't working. Also, a way to permanently allow special fonts would be nice.
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Im_Special posted:What's your beef with No Scripts,? it's pretty drat perfect in my eyes. There are alternatives sure, such as RequestPolicy and that may give you more control over what gets through, but comes at a greater cost of "pain in the rear end to configure". I was having some weird poo poo happen where I kept having to reset my permissions for the past two days. But I've restarted in safe mode and now things are working again. For the moment. Looks like it's about time to refresh my profile again. \/\/Hey, thanks! Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Jan 27, 2015 |
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Jan 27, 2015 15:36
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Gorilla Salad posted:Now that there's a better version of AdBlock, is there a better replacement for No Scripts? Kind of. This is in fact very closely tied up with uBlock: The dev of uBlock originally made it as a dumbed down, more focussed version of another Chrome extension, uMatrix (formerly called httpSwitchboard). It uses the same technology underneath, but gives incredible firewall-type control over all the content the browser is loading. A great deal of overlap with NoScript, obviously. I suggest you go check out the Chrome version of that and see if the features do what you get from noscript currently. Porting uBlock to FF is an obvious first step to porting the full featureset of uMatrix - not sure if that's the plan at present, though I'm sure if you ask nicely, maybe donate to the dev, he'll think about it.
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Jan 27, 2015 17:06
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Do we know if uBlock will update itself automatically since it's being installed outside of Mozilla Add-Ons?
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Jan 27, 2015 19:59
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What's a good plugin for downloading youtubes that isn't some form of spyware
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Jan 28, 2015 00:35
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Instead of a plugin, you can always use the youtube-dl script! Command line is scary to people but I promise it's easy to use.
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Jan 28, 2015 00:47
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DownloadHelper is pretty good for grabbing videos and other media.
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m2pt5 posted:DownloadHelper is pretty good for grabbing videos and other media. I've had better luck with the awkwardly-named Download Flash and Video for most sites, but for YouTube I use http://savedeo.com/ since it's the only thing I've found that can download the 1080p versions (though you have to manually stitch the video and audio tracks together at your end). Hopefully neither are evil.
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Jan 28, 2015 06:24
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gently caress this page. Causes this. This was just that link and the forums, 2 tabs.  This is on a machine with 8GB RAM, but still, gently caress.
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Jan 28, 2015 07:14
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Any particular reason everyone is leaping off the Adblock Plus train? Is the new add-on just generally better, or does it turn out that ABP secretly fills everyone's PC with spiders or something and I just managed to miss the news post?
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Jan 28, 2015 07:27
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Ostensibly better w/r/t resource consumption and browser responsiveness.
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YggiDee posted:Any particular reason everyone is leaping off the Adblock Plus train? Is the new add-on just generally better, or does it turn out that ABP secretly fills everyone's PC with spiders or something and I just managed to miss the news post? ABP has a known issue where it injects a lot of stylesheets and things per page (including iframes, which is why that vim page can kill a Firefox session). This has been known for a long time, and it's not like the ABP devs are unaware of it. There's a firefox feature request for sharing resources between pages that's been open for years that would solve this, but it's not really going anywhere. Everyone has just lived with it because ABP is a much, much lesser evil than the crap it's blocking. I haven't jumped ship myself, yet, but if ublock does almost everything ABP does at significantly lower resources I will. Just waiting to see if other people find that ublock has its own spiders.
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I've been using uBlock in Firefox since the first test was released in the bugtracker and I haven't had any issues at all. In fact, its much better at handling popups than ABP has been for me. It just works and I am fine with that.
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YggiDee posted:Any particular reason everyone is leaping off the Adblock Plus train? Is the new add-on just generally better, or does it turn out that ABP secretly fills everyone's PC with spiders or something and I just managed to miss the news post? It's worth noting that uBlock is using the exact same filter lists as ABP, and is fully compatible with them. Writing and maintaining those lists is a huge part of the task, and neither extension is worth much without good subscriptions. uBlock just applies them in a very different way, that dramatically lowers resource usage, and makes the browser feel snappier to me. The underlying browser technology has been updated tons in the last few years, and now provides a way more efficient way to block things, which uBlock takes advantage of. ABP does things the old way
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Jan 28, 2015 08:48
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Flash block still doesn't work on youtube but does work on embedded youtube vids.
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I don't get worked up about it, but it does kinda weird me out that ABP turned into a quasi-extortion scheme. Having more ad blocker options out there will be a good thing.
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xamphear posted:ABP turned into a quasi-extortion scheme. Wait, what?
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hooah posted:Wait, what?
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That the whitelist is opt out is the lovely part that makes it extortion. I'm not using uBlock until it's more stable, but I'm not going to support AdBlock Plus for that poo poo.
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EasyList also comes with its own whitelist, which doesn't have a convenient means of removing all of them at once. NoScript picks up the slack, but I've had to manually remove one or two from the whitelist over the past year.
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Freakazoid_ posted:EasyList also comes with its own whitelist, which doesn't have a convenient means of removing all of them at once. NoScript picks up the slack, but I've had to manually remove one or two from the whitelist over the past year. Seriously? Oh for fucks sake, it does, and it's a huge list of @@ entries.
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wooger posted:It's worth noting that uBlock is using the exact same filter lists as ABP, and is fully compatible with them. I wouldn't say that. I'm still having issues with using the same filter set from ABP in uBlock, namely with uBlock seeming to over-interpret some rules.
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Well, I'm a fan of uBlock so far. It feels as lightweight as Bluhell Firewall but works better and actually has options. Thanks for bringing it up in the thread.
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Freakazoid_ posted:EasyList also comes with its own whitelist, which doesn't have a convenient means of removing all of them at once. NoScript picks up the slack, but I've had to manually remove one or two from the whitelist over the past year. xamphear posted:Seriously? Oh for fucks sake, it does, and it's a huge list of @@ entries. Alereon fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Jan 28, 2015 |
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Alereon posted:Those are workarounds for incorrectly blocked items and sites that don't work with the basic ad- or tracking-blocking filters. That's what they want you to believe!
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ThermoPhysical posted:Is avast still removing extensions? Also, now taking nominations for a new thread title.
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Alereon posted:Also, now taking nominations for a new thread title. The Firefox Thread: Are We Chrome Yet?
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xamphear posted:The Firefox Thread: Are We Chrome Yet? lol
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The Awesomebar is still useful and the Omnibox is still garbage, so, no, not Chrome yet.
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xamphear posted:The Firefox Thread: Are We Chrome Yet? I'm all for this one. haha
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pseudorandom name posted:The Awesomebar is still useful and the Omnibox is still garbage, so, no, not Chrome yet. Probably just a matter of time now...
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pseudorandom name posted:The Awesomebar is still useful  Awesomebar is my favorite part of this browser. Anyways, at least if Mozilla's Firefox ever turns entirely into a Chrome clone, a fork of it will survive somewhere. Sort of like how I jumped ship from Amarok to Clementine back in the day.
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Yeah if it wasn't for the awesomebar I would've switched to some other browser ages ago.
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I just started firefox and it deleted my profile and all my addons and settings and now that I've got that back all I need to know is how to fix the weird page scrolling? It's making me nauseous. EDIT: nevermind, it seems to have fixed itself?
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AlmightyBob posted:I just started firefox and it deleted my profile and all my addons and settings and now that I've got that back all I need to know is how to fix the weird page scrolling? It's making me nauseous. If you mean "Smooth scrolling", it's Options (or Preferences)> Advanced>General>Use smooth scrolling.
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