Enhancment idea

tomstom · Post by **tomstom** » Wed Jan 15, 2014 10:04 am

Hello

Thanks a lot for this great and wonderful tool.

If a NoScript looks for the blocked domains, most users probably have the same problem: what's behind a domain? Should I enable or disable it?

Therefore it would be great, if we can configure, that NoScript reads the domains html <head><title> - Tag and display this information near the domain name or as a tooltip.

NoScript would display in the menu:

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domain.abc allow
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sharethis.com Allow
And below or in a Tooltip: "ShareThis is the leading provider of sharing tools like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest buttons"
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Settings…

This would help to decide to enable / disable a domain.

I hope you see what I mean...

Thanks a lot,
kind regards,
Thomas

Post by **Giorgio Maone** » Wed Jan 15, 2014 10:31 am

Did you try middle-clicking (or shift-clicking) the menu item?

tomstom · Post by **tomstom** » Wed Jan 15, 2014 12:40 pm

Hi, thanks a lot for your Answer!,

Shif-Clicking or Double-Clicking a menu item is very inconvenient:
1. Click to open the NoScript menu
2. Study the menu Items
3. Shift Click a menu item
4. Study the result
5. Close the Window
6. Click to open the NoScript menu again
7. Search the menu Item
8. Enable the item

My solution is straight forward and transparent:
Only once: Enable "Automatically load & display Domain Titles" in Configuration
1. Click to open the NoScript menu
2. Study the menu Items. The Domain Title is visible or can be displayed via a tooltip
3. Enable the item

that's a cool solution

Kind regards,
Thomas

Post by **Giorgio Maone** » Wed Jan 15, 2014 9:12 pm

tomstom wrote: that's a cool solution

... with a big problem: if the site is malicious, you cannot trust the title which it provides, kinda defeating the purpose of this feature.

Post by **Thrawn** » Wed Jan 15, 2014 9:16 pm

Theoretically interesting, but:

Script files aren't HTML, so they won't have a <head> section.
NoScript blocks script files from being downloaded, so it can't read anything without changing this behavior (and breaking a lot of user expectations, increasing bandwidth, re-inventing its blocking mechanism to work after download, etc).
If a site is going to attack you, they're not going to advertise the fact in their pages, are they? This might be useful for ad-blocking, but that's only secondary to NoScript's mission of preventing web attacks.

tomstom · Post by **tomstom** » Wed Jan 15, 2014 9:24 pm

Thanks a lot for your answers and to check my Idea.
Hmm... you're answer says, that you have a very good software design - and that's also good news

Kind regards,
Thomas

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