Reviews for NoScript Security Suite
NoScript Security Suite by Giorgio Maone
281 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by billdehaan, 7 years agoI've loved it for years. The new look takes a bit of getting used to, but the functionality is still there.
For those who are complaining that they lost settings after restarting Firefox, when you first click the "Trusted" field, you're only setting it temporarily. That's when the clock icon is still big. Click it a second time, and the icon becomes smaller, and it's permanent. It's not very intuitive, but once I figured it out, all was well.
I do have one question/problem. Having configured a lot of sites, I wanted to back up the settings. In the settings page, there is Import/Export/Reset. The Import pops up a dialog, but the Export doesn't. I don't want to hit the Reset and lose all my settings, for obvious reasons.
Is there something else I need to do in order to export the settings? Or are they being exported to some default location? I'm running 10.1.5.8, and the export button is there, but clicking on it doesn't seem to do anything that I can tell. I've looked at noscript.net, but I don't see any description other than the generic feature description. Could something be conflicting with the export? - Rated 4 out of 5by Jaceny, 7 years agoAlthough no fan of the ui, I'm glad the Giorgio gave us an early version of NoScript for Quantum. Hopefully more features will be implemented down the line. For now 4 stars and will be 5 again once this version has reached its maturity like it's older brother. Still loving Noscript and what it stands for. Waiting patiently for the next update. Greetz from The Netherlands!
- Rated 4 out of 5by embrion, 7 years agoWith Quantum came changes, white and clean design got me concerned (since Adblock and uBlock have truly bad interfaces, with almost no control), but somehow NoScript rebuilt is still usable.
XSS notifications do not have permament disable options yet.
Allowing all from a domain but not from some subdomain seems also not possible yet.
NoScript update wants download rights and read/write rights to download history - are you f kidding? - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13600590, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Exaskryz, 7 years agoI love this addon. It makes me feel more private on the web and in control of what faceless domains are accessing my data.
The one shortcoming I have is the large sites that do tracking on other webites like Facebook and Twitter and Google. If I go onto their specific websites, I need to permit their scripts to run. That's fine when I'm on their website - they're going to track my activity with or without their tracking scripts. The problem is that when I permit Facebook, I'm permitting it not just on facebook.com but also any other site that has installed their Facebook widget. If we can get a setting to allow first-party scripts or "Allow for this domain only" granularity, that would be great and make a fabulous addon an easy 5/5. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13587725, 7 years agoAbsolutely necessary add-on in my everyday browsing life. The new version works nice even though the interface needs more polish, which is to be expected after the release of a new version. It is a little bit unintuitive (that is why I give it 4 stars at its current state) but offers more choices in finetuning a pages permissions.
Go, Giorgio. This add-on rocks. - Rated 4 out of 5by Stelioss, 7 years agoThis addon has improved a lot after all the recent updates. Also, i may be in the minority here, but i really like the new UI.. The options page however is still sluggish, to the point that it is unusable to me.. ( with an 8 core CPU,16 GB RAM, Radeon RX 480 8 GB computer). So 4 stars because it still has issues.
- Rated 4 out of 5by GiacomoGo, 7 years agoMain good news continues with 10.1.6.1.
So happy with this fast progress!
• Added "Reset to defaults" button and "Temporarily set top-level sites to TRUSTED" option.
• 10.1.6.1 now seems to handle XSS much better, and recalls my settings.
This is precisely what has been missing. Visual ability to switch between sites from temp to permanent and back again is perfect.
Great progress, glad to NoScript back on track with this pure Webextension for Firefox Quantum. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13580736, 7 years agoMolt bona. Imprescindible. No li dono 5 estrelles per què la corva d'aprenentatge és costeruda.
- Rated 4 out of 5by manuel, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13569382, 7 years agoThank you Giorgio.
I finally understand by reading https://hackademix.net/2017/12/04/noscript-quantum-vs-legacy-in-a-nutshell-2/
It works perfectly on my Firefox 57 quantum so far although a bit complicated. - Rated 4 out of 5by Yoon, 7 years agoThis addon still working. The main reason people hate this new version is because they misunderstand the UI. Sure the new version lacks some convenient functions like block list. You have to configue every site the first time you visit it. But after that everything worked like a charm.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13555626, 7 years agoIt was really rough in the beginning - bad and buggy UI, settings did not seem to persist, etc. but at least since 10.1.5.1, it's looking good. I wish there were clear directions, but the developer did give some suggestions in a response or two below that basically clarified everything: click the naked "S" to mark something as "trusted." You will notice a clock icon to the right of the "S" which means that it's temporary. Click the clock again to make it go away and make the "trusted" status permanent. Then there is the "untrusted" button and the "custom" button. The custom button allows you to choose what elements are allowed.
Knowing how to use the 2 buttons, the "trusted" and "untrusted," and the temporary button should help clarify this extension's usage and make it usable again to everyone. I wish the rollout had been smoother from the beginning, but I encourage everyone to give NoScript another look. Also, I hope everyone understands what a monumental change FF57 has brought about in terms of extension development and that extensions like these that do so much behind the scenes have been made extremely difficult to maintain. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13554851, 7 years agoWell to be honest this is a new review.I initially installed noscript the first day it was available and it was just plain bad.Confusing and very hard to configure.So i removed it and waited to see how the updates were progressing.Just installed latest version and i must say it has gotten much better.In fact i plan on keeping it installed for the time being as a lot of the problems in the initial build have been fixed.For those wanting the old ui forget it.It is time for you to move on.I really hope the developer keeps improving this add-on for the latest Firefox.Not there yet but getting better.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13544338, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by bedwttr, 7 years agoExcellent extension with fine grained controls!
Didn't want to post this bug report here, but couldn't find a link anywhere on the website for bug reports. So, forgive me for posting it as a review. Nothing negative about this extension!
On the latest version, running on 58.0b8 whenever I have focus with my cursor on the extension in toolbar, the browser becomes minimized. Pretty weird. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13549526, 7 years agoFF57 is a big challenge. Don't be disappointed. Being a father 24/7 is more important.
- Rated 4 out of 5by 陈玄丈, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13535841, 7 years agoLast update has broken NoScript. Completely trusted sites still have blocked items which disable the visited sites.
- Rated 4 out of 5by ankspo71, 7 years agoReview for noscript 10.1.3c1
After fiddling with noscript for a while, I see that noscipt is working for me , and I am beginning to like the new UI, but there are some issues with unexpected behavior.
For instance, if I create a rule to allow an insecure connection to wired.com, and then reload the page, my selection will seem to disappear (or revert), but in reality my selection is not shown because there is no insecure connection to wired.com so the site remains blocked. It is unexpected to see the rule disappear and block the page and might cause people to think it doesn't work. I also assumed that my insecure rule would automatically allow a secure connection. EDIT: This problem has been fixed with a recent update. Thanks
Also a smaller issue is globally allowing scripts only shows top level domain allowed, instead of showing all allowed domains, similar to how "temporary allow all this page" shows all domains.
Overall I think Giorgio has done good work so far at rewriting noscript, but I think it needs a little more polishing. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13532626, 7 years agoBig thanks to the developer for the hard work on this excellent add-on, the new UI is definitely getting there. Keep up the good work, ignore the naysayers - some people need to remember that change is the only constant.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13528704, 7 years agoWell, obviously the security aspect of the new version is good, but I gotta say that it seems hard (and uncertain) on how to do a TEMPORARILY ALLOW DOMAIN in the new version. The TEMPORARILY ALLOW is what I use almost exclusively (when needed) to deal with things I don't want to grant permanent permission to. (Yes, I know you know this).
I just find it too hard to get to it. It took me a while to realize the teeny-tiny watch-face symbol was used for that, but even more unclear was that I actually had to click on the clock itself. Can you make the TEMPORARY feature easier to recognize and access?
Frank
For now, down to 4 stars, instead of the usual 5 - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13528339, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13525411, 7 years agoGood add-on, a must have.
One star missing cause of the new context menu UI, the previous one was better.
I like this new settings depth.