Comments on: How to save yourself and your browser from a web site that won’t go away https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/ Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:48:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: CS https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498998 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:48:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498998 I also recommend SessionManager. It saves and restores tabs and windows across sessions. You can set it so that you can choose which session to load each time Firefox is started (including reopening the tabs/windows from the previous session). I believe you can also deselect individual tabs in the session you wish to load.

Another feature is that it allows you to reopen both closed tabs and windows during the current session, in case you accidentally closed a window you meant to keep.

]]> By: paulmurray https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498997 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:47:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498997 I find “adblock” works like a charm, for those that don’t have philosophical objections. If you don’t trust browser add-ins, consider a filtering proxy.

]]> By: UBS https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498996 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:33:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498996 I’ve found Firefox’ WOT-tool (Web of Trust) quite useful – it stops you before going to suspicious sites. Also ESET NOD antivirus does the same.

]]> By: Drivebyposter https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498995 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:06:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498995 I never said it was useful, I just said it did stuff 😉

]]> By: Jeff Knapp https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498994 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:02:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498994 I was running Firefox for some time but had some of the similar problems. Noscrip was OK but, as mentioned, you had to deal with each and every url separately. I real PITA at first but, after time, having built up a decent database of urls to block, it did its job decently, if not great.

I switched back to Safari however because flash performance “semi-broke” in a recent update to Firefox – specifically, performance of Google Maps Street View became almost unusable. Once I was back in Safari, I added AdBlock which has worked nearly perfectly for me.

Too bad Apple doesn’t do a version of Safari for Linux, it really is an underrated and under appreciated Web browser.

]]> By: Drivebyposter https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498993 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:29:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498993 I never said it was useful, I just said it did stuff 😉

]]> By: Alan https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498992 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:37:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498992 This happens to me ocasionally with firefox on windows even though I have pop ups blocked. The remedy is to kill the pop up and the browser from the task manager (once will do it).

I think it was more than a coincidence that my malware problems dissappeared when the kids left home about a decade ago. I have been running windows since then with no virus checker and no malware problems. If you don’t do stupid shit then windows is fine with just a simple firewall.

OTOH, I’ve been a software developer for 20yrs. I’m an O/S agnostic and always have been, what looks like stupid shit to me might seem perfectly reasonable to the uninitiated who often end up blaming the O/S for their gullibility.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498991 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:14:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498991 When I clickon the no-script thingie on a page that is annoying me, I get a list with as many as a dozen URL’s none of which are the one I’m looking at. I do not have the option of simply turning off scripts on that page. Reading over a list of a dozen mostly obscure URL’s and deciding which ones to turn off (or even selecting them in succession without thinking about which ones to turn off) is not a benefit to me at all.

I can block all scrips without no-script.

Perhaps it simply does not work properly on my version of firefox on my system.

]]> By: Drivebyposter https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498990 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:03:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498990 I have No Script and it allows you to block scripts from specific places like google-analytics.com, kqzyfj.com, quantserve.com, doubleclick.net etc…
You can block and allow all scripts also.
I generally don’t choose to block new things though…it’s rare that I really need it. You can definitely do without it, I’m just respectfully correcting what you said.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498989 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:28:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/03/how-to-save-yourself-and-your/#comment-498989 I see no benefit to NoScript. It seems to be good at turning all scripts off or alls scripts on. It is incapable of sensing that the dozen domains from which scripts are coming on a typical web page should be handled as one entity. Perhaps web design has gone beyond the plugin’s ability. It is easier to go to preferences and turn off all scripts as needed.

Flash Block is great.

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