Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and script block tool/addon

[Dale]

Hi,

I'm checking that as I type.  It may not solve all my problems but it
may certainly help.  Some scripts make one CPU core go to 100% and locks
up the tab the script is running on.  Firefox, to its credit, is sane
enough to allow other tabs to work tho.  At least it doesn't completely
lock up the whole thing.  Good code I guess.  ;-)  Anyway, it does that
for about 30 seconds or so, I assume it times out or something.  Still,
very annoying and worthy of just blocking the script completely. 

It appears clang is disabled.  If I read that correctly, that is the
ideal setting.


[ebuild   R   ~] www-client/firefox-72.0.1::gentoo  USE="gmp-autoupdate
screenshot startup-notification system-av1 system-icu system-jpeg
system-sqlite system-webp -bindist -clang -custom-cflags
-custom-optimization -debug -eme-free -geckodriver -hardened -hwaccel
-jack -lto -pgo -pulseaudio (-selinux) -system-libevent -system-libvpx
-test -wayland -wifi" CPU_FLAGS_X86="-avx2"


Thanks for the tip. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

P. S. Top posting since reply was also.  Could be device related.  I dunno.


aisha wrote:
> Firefox currently has some issues with addons and local storage.
> Do you have the use `clang` flag enabled?
> This compiles firefox using clang-llvm and fixes a lot of the problems.
>
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> Aisha
> www.aisha.cc
>
> On 2020-01-24 22:52, Dale wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I use Firefox and have a issue with scripts on some sites.  I have
>> noscript installed and for the most part, it works.  That said, there is
>> times when it doesn't do what I need.  It seems, from what I can find
>> anyway, that you can either allow scripts or not allow scripts but can't
>> pick and choose.  For example.  Let's say I'm on abc.com and I need some
>> scripts to run but want to block other scripts.  With noscript, I either
>> allow all from a site or none.  What I'd like to find is a script block
>> tool that will list all the scripts and allow me to block some but allow
>> others.  Believe it or not, I use to use adblock, a much older version,
>> to do this.  I'd tell adblock to list all the objects, sort them by type
>> and then go through the scripts until I find the magic settings that
>> allows the site to work but not run scripts I don't want.
>>
>> I've installed and tried quite a few script block tools but none of them
>> seem to do what I want to do.  I've even tried a few addons that only
>> had a very few users, just hoping it would do this.  Has anyone ever
>> seen a script block tool, or some other tool with a different name, that
>> works this way?  I need a addon that allows me to refine and be
>> selective on what scripts run and which ones are blocked. 
>>
>> Thanks much to all.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-) 
>