InformAction Forums

Okay, worth asking, I figured! I did google a bit and while I didn't find the whole story, here's an article suggesting NotScripts used a crazy hack to get around the initial lack of APIs for blocking requests. Sounds like they did something like adding fake entries to the cache to intercept script ...

Cool, thanks. Btw, any idea what APIs things like ScriptSafe/NotScripts/ScriptNo use to detect and block script loading? I remember reading an early blog post talking about how Chrome didn't want to implement any synchronous APIs, which by definition would be what blocking APIs are. But with these N...

Interesting. So does the fact that you referenced those threads in 2016 mean that the situation still hasn't changed? (I see Giorgio still hasn't ported it, so I take that as one indication.)

Oh my god, that's what that message was? I'd periodically see "Installation failed" when using my browser, but I think it even showed up when Firefox wasn't the active app! I was getting kind of paranoid about some malware attempting to install itself or something, but I figured there's pr...

@Lekensteyn: Thanks so much! @Giorgio: Super thanks for merging so fast! Love that NSA is still on your radar! Why don't I go make that donation now? This is like Christmas in.. well, December. It not only fixes the FF 34 bug, but it fixes all the bugs that came with the old NSA icon! Often I just c...