How about adding check boxes to the UI?

[Geza]

Hi Guys,

I've been using NoScript for years even before Edward Snowden 1st mentioned it and just recently realized that a valuable time of my computer time is simply wasted on one really annoying feature that is missing from NS:

Every time I go to a new website that I haven't visited before, AND it has several or a LOT of external web servers that it is linked to, I waste a lot of time for waiting for clicks on each external websites and suddenly it just dawned on me: If there was a check box next to each website, I could select all desired ones 1st and then just wait once for the action to take place and if that didn't fix the problem, then I can add several more in the 2nd step and do that until the website comes up in a readable or usable shape.

So, what do you guys think?

Right now what happens is, that sometimes I bump into a website that has gazillion external links, and if it is not too important to visit it, I just give up and don't even go there because I'm just simply too tired of waiting for NosCript to come back after each click.

(Of course, it is also possible that I'm not using NoScript the best way, and maybe most of the folks don't even experience the problem that I do.)

[barbaz]

What you want already exists. Set the NoScript menu to open on mouse hover and enable the sticky menu (enabled by default).

[Geza]

What you want already exists. Set the NoScript menu to open on mouse hover and enable the sticky menu (enabled by default).

I already have "on mouse hover" enabled but I cannot find anything on sticky menu. One thing is for sure, that I have never seen check boxes next to the website names since day one and I never disabled it either.

I have been using FF for years, installed NoScript on my PC and many other PCs, never seen the menu behave sticky, so at least in my experience it was never turned on by default on ANY pc.

Right now I'm using SeaMonkey, installed it a week ago along with NoScript, the menu isn't sticking here either.

about:config
noscript.stickyUI;true
noscript.stickyUI.liveReload;true
noscript.stickyUI.onKeyboard;true

The liveReload was set to false, I just changed it to true, but the menu still doesn't stick. As soon as I allow or temp allow a website, the menu disappears.

So, how can I enable the sticky part?

And if and when the menu sticks, how long, how many seconds it stays open? What supposed to trigger it to close and start reloading the webpage?

[barbaz]

One thing is for sure, that I have never seen check boxes next to the website names since day one and I never disabled it either.

It doesn't use checkboxes. But it works the way you want.

Right now I'm using SeaMonkey, installed it a week ago along with NoScript, the menu isn't sticking here either.

How are you opening the NoScript menu?

about:config
noscript.stickyUI;true
noscript.stickyUI.liveReload;true
noscript.stickyUI.onKeyboard;true

The liveReload was set to false, I just changed it to true,

No, leave all three at default value.

[Geza]

Until now I used NoScript by clicking on the button "Options..." in the "dynamic" NoScript statusbar on the bottom, whenever I try to go to a website that NS has at least one webserver that it blocks on.

But now, you question puzzled me and found another way of accessing NoScript options by clicking on the button "S" in the right lower corner, now THAT makes NS work in Sticky mode.

So, I guess my problem is solved now, but I think it would be still a good idea for the programmers to make the options popup window sticky even when you launch it from the "Options" button because that is the button that jumps up in front of you when something is blocked after you started using this program since day one.

I'm 99% sure of that 9999 folks out of 10000 *regular folks all over the world, (not programmers or other gurus) don't have any idea about the sticky menu option and use NS just like I've been using it since it came on board which is really PITA.

Thank You for pointing out the solution for me!

Geza

[barbaz]

You're welcome.

I think it would be still a good idea for the programmers to make the options popup window sticky even when you launch it from the "Options" button

+1 to this as an optional feature, sometimes it's more convenient to click that than mouse over the NoScript icon.