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Hi!

NoScript.

This is a great add-on, really great, I wish everybody would use it... but it takes too much of my time. Several seconds per day. And it takes too much of its other 88,000,000 users' time. Thousands of DAYS per day. What we do most with this add-on is:

1) to enjoy what it does;

2) to click the Options button and one of its items in order to allow the currently displayed website's top domain.

We really do a lot of 2). It's the only thing that needs to be done with most sites to make them work. So why hide it inside the list of all other allowable addresses, behind an Options button and an over-informative drop-up-list?

So: Please add a little button next to the Options button, letting us allow the top domain with ONE CLICK. The button should also indicate whether this has already been done or not. That's it!

Imagine all the time spent by 88 MILLION users, clicking the Options button, finding the right line, moving the cursor up to the line, clicking it - on EVERY new website that needs to be allowed. Imagine the collective loss of focus caused by this in peoples' minds, and imagine the collectively reduced browsing experience. Is this something you want to have in this world, or something you would like to easily avoid?

NoScript - "Less traps, more web".
Good selling slogan you have there. And it sounds exactly as the suggestion above.

Thanks!

Did you notice there's a NoScript button on the add-on bar (if you've got it hidden, it should be on the navigation bar)?

You can hover it to open the menu without clicking anything, and if you middle-click it you allow the top-level site on the current page as you wish.

Oh, just found you didn't just send me this very message by email, but you also posted it as a "review" on NoScript's AMO page.
Notice that's not the place for RFEs like this, so please edit it (otherwise it will be deleted by AMO moderators, but this will take more time).

Giorgio Maone wrote:Did you notice there's a NoScript button on the add-on bar (if you've got it hidden, it should be on the navigation bar)?

Hi! Thanks for replying.
No, I actually haven't noticed that. I've never used the Add-on bar or the Navigation toolbar -- they steal even more of the browser's already too reduced screen height, and I wouldn't recomment people or developers to use it -- and when I enable the Add-on bar in the View menu, it is completely empty without any NoScript button. I can choose to Customize it and then drag a NoScript button onto my Menu bar. Now I have it next to the address field, a much better place than at the bottom.

As I remember it, I believe I use NoScript quite out-of-the-box, without reconfiguring it a lot myself. And that's of course how most people use it, or at least how they see it first. And that's where the NoScript messages/Options bar at the bottom came in... as the only feedback from NoScript. Now I've disabled the height-stealing messages at the bottom, and the button at the top is much better -- halfway towards my request in this thread. Precise hovering and menu navigation and item selection just makes my hands more tense, so I'd prefer to just click it.

Giorgio Maone wrote:You can hover it to open the menu without clicking anything, and if you middle-click it you allow the top-level site on the current page as you wish.

Middle-click? I haven't used a mouse with three buttons since over 10 years, and I haven't used a mouse in 5 years. Even though I use computers 10 hours a day, middle-click is so exotic that I've never even bothered to find out whether or how it could be done on my computer. People mostly use laptops nowadays, and there you have (at the best) two buttons.

nmattis wrote:Middle-click? I haven't used a mouse with three buttons since over 10 years, and I haven't used a mouse in 5 years. Even though I use computers 10 hours a day, middle-click is so exotic that I've never even bothered to find out whether or how it could be done on my computer. People mostly use laptops nowadays, and there you have (at the best) two buttons.

Not so exotic. 99.9% of ALL mouses on the planet have 3 buttons. What you don't realize that since the old days of the Unix 3 button mouse, they have made the "scroll" button that you see on EVERY mouse, as the middle button. Not only can you scroll with it, you can just press down on it now and for many years now. So effectively EVERY mouse that has a scroll between the two normal buttons, is a 3 button mouse and can middle click. I use middle click all the time, but then again I started as an old school Unix guy, for opening a new tab by middle click on a link, 99% of my middle clicks. Middle click on a page to freeze it and you can then scroll to drag it around. Very versatile and although might not be for everyone, just about everyone is fine with it and it would behoove the developer to aim for the majority. MAC is the only one that still tries to shove the one button mouse down people's throat and many hate it and it has been a spectacular failure.