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From: aisha <aisha@×××××.cc>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and script block tool/addon
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 03:55:27
Message-Id: d270e5fec7bed8e6666a186a7a9ab58b@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Firefox and script block tool/addon by Dale
1 Firefox currently has some issues with addons and local storage.
2 Do you have the use `clang` flag enabled?
3 This compiles firefox using clang-llvm and fixes a lot of the problems.
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6 Aisha
7 www.aisha.cc
8
9 On 2020-01-24 22:52, Dale wrote:
10 > Howdy,
11 >
12 > I use Firefox and have a issue with scripts on some sites.  I have
13 > noscript installed and for the most part, it works.  That said, there
14 > is
15 > times when it doesn't do what I need.  It seems, from what I can find
16 > anyway, that you can either allow scripts or not allow scripts but
17 > can't
18 > pick and choose.  For example.  Let's say I'm on abc.com and I need
19 > some
20 > scripts to run but want to block other scripts.  With noscript, I
21 > either
22 > allow all from a site or none.  What I'd like to find is a script block
23 > tool that will list all the scripts and allow me to block some but
24 > allow
25 > others.  Believe it or not, I use to use adblock, a much older version,
26 > to do this.  I'd tell adblock to list all the objects, sort them by
27 > type
28 > and then go through the scripts until I find the magic settings that
29 > allows the site to work but not run scripts I don't want.
30 >
31 > I've installed and tried quite a few script block tools but none of
32 > them
33 > seem to do what I want to do.  I've even tried a few addons that only
34 > had a very few users, just hoping it would do this.  Has anyone ever
35 > seen a script block tool, or some other tool with a different name,
36 > that
37 > works this way?  I need a addon that allows me to refine and be
38 > selective on what scripts run and which ones are blocked. 
39 >
40 > Thanks much to all.
41 >
42 > Dale
43 >
44 > :-)  :-) 

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