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Together with umatrix (https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/ https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/) are the best chrome extensions Since I went back to firefox tho

Together with umatrix (https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/ https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/) are the best chrome extensions Since I went back to firefox those are the only extensions I really miss, there is policeman (https://github.com/futpib/policeman/ https://github.com/futpib/policeman/) but it's not as good as them yet To whoever develop extensions, please don't focus only on chrome, firefox during the last months has become must better that it was before, if developers only consider chrome, people will eventually migrate to it and firefox will die. Even though chromium is open it won't be good for the ecosystem

gcommer 12y ago
I use NoScript and RequestPolicy for full white listing functionality in Firefox.
Nexxxeh 12y ago
As my paranoia ramps up year on year, I now use Opera with µBlock. For me, it has the polish of Chrome with some nice extras, but without the increasingly creepy Googality. It works fine, although I've not tried µMatrix. (I have my defaults changed to DuckDuckGo. Usually connecting via a VPN.) I've whitelisted a few sites I like to support (a couple of webcomics, HaD etc). I have a lot of filters: "62,501 network filters ＋ 40,728 cosmetic filters". Opera's task manager says the extension is taking up a mere 32MB. Probably not accurate, but a lot better AdBlock (my previous favourite). Off-topic but I wish people would stop using Mu for project names. Where is the Mu key on the keyboard? I have to copy and paste or alt-code it. Call the project microBlock or something! They use "u" instead of "µ" on Github, so why not just use something else entirely? µTorrent was the one that really irritated me because I couldn't type "utorr" to search for it on my start menu. I'd say something to gorhill (albeit far more politely), but it seems childish and ungrateful. He's clearly poured so much time and effort into making such useful software. "Great software but the name is fucking annoying, mate!"
- gorhill 12y ago
  I myself most often write "uBlock" and pronounce "you-block", as in "users decide". I originally used the mu character in place of the u to emphasize smaller resource footprint relative to similar solutions out there. I've never been good with picking name etc., unfortunately now we are stuck with it.
  - Intermernet 12y ago
    Don't sweat it. It's actually quite a good name. It works both as "you block" and "micro block" depending on reading the first character as "u" or "mu".
- xenophonf 12y ago
  http://www.howtotype.net/symbol/Micro/ http://www.howtotype.net/symbol/Micro/ Sadly, the US-International keyboard on Windows does not implement a shortcut for the "micro" character (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306560 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306560).
  - stinos 12y ago
    There's always character map which has this and like all others you can ever think of. A bit cumbersome, but at least one doesn't have to remember character codes and can search for characters by name.
    - seanp2k2 12y ago
      "Let me google that" pulls out character map pretty poor UX if you ask me. Almost as bad for search ability as calling your product "go" or "cloud" or "driver" or any other one-word generic, hard to find even with contextual terms around it.
      - stinos 12y ago
        pretty poor UX if you ask me yup. Has been around since NT or maybe even longer..
        raverbashing 12y ago
        the poor UX is not the Character Map It is having to open it every time you want to type the name of µSomething
        Dylan16807 12y ago
        The poor UX is the keyboard layout throwing away altgr.
  - driax 12y ago
    In addition, I pretty sure many European keywords can type µ by alt-gr+m, at least in Windows on my Danish keyword. Only know that because once I had a keyword were they actually had printed it on the key, just like they always do with € on E.
- bla2 12y ago
  If this is motivated by your paranoia, why are you switching to a closed-source browser?
  - lol123456 12y ago
    If you are motivated by the love of free software, why aren't you thinking of the possibility that gcc can have a backdoor written by bribed immoral programmers ? Or has Richard Stallman convinced you that by mere repetition of the word free, free software is also moral software ? I have no doubts what so ever that Opera is run by ethical people and it an ethical company. In any case a security / privacy audit is a much more rigorous test. The whole free software movement is based on a pathetic assumption that if you can't read 10 million lines of open code you have to suffer from paranoia.
    - GhotiFish 12y ago
      A security audit done by whom? Surely not people paid by the vendor of the product bring audited... Right?
      - lol123456 12y ago
        Go read 10 million lines jack ass.
- drvortex 12y ago
  There is a μ on the German QWERTZ keyboards.
- colechristensen 12y ago
  On Apple keyboards Alt+m prints µ.
- davidy123 12y ago
  Use a compose key system, native on Unix (Linux, Mac, etc) and available on Windows. It's very intuitive and will open up your character vocabulary considerably. I use the caps-lock key for compose. http://fsymbols.com/keyboard/linux/compose/ http://fsymbols.com/keyboard/linux/compose/
- bashinator 12y ago
  > Where is the Mu key on the keyboard? At least for me, option-m is the µ key.
- Tanath 12y ago
  DDG lies about not tracking you. Startpage appears not to.
WorldWideWayne 12y ago
> Even though chromium is open it won't be good for the ecosystem. You didn't mention how or why. Personally, I hope Mozilla goes away and some other group comes along to fill the void because I don't think Mozilla consists of the right group of people to make anything worth using. I'm not using any Mozilla browser until they learn how to respect the native operating system UI guidelines. Instead they're trying to build some lame HTML-driven UI experiment. No, I much prefer that Mozilla just go away and die.
- WorldWideWayne 12y ago
  Awww, looks like I have an unpopular opinion. You should totally censor it and make it disappear so that your world can be sterile and comfortable once again!
  - ferrari8608 12y ago
    Perhaps it's less about popularity and more your delivery.
    - WorldWideWayne 12y ago
      I doubt it.
      - eropple 12y ago
        I would be much less doubting in your position. I downvoted and flagged you for your jerkish rhetoric because it doesn't contribute to the discussion.
        WorldWideWayne 12y ago
        Sure it does. I asked why Chrome, not being open sourced, is "bad" for the ecosystem. Unfortunately, I packaged that with an unpopular opinion. Hence, the censorship doled out by yourself and others. Way to go!
  - 12y ago
_asummers 12y ago
How does uMatrix compare to something like Ghostery? Would it be redundant to have both?
- ugexe 12y ago
  Isn't ghostery owned by an ad company?
  - _asummers 12y ago
    Yes, however the GhostRank feature that people don't like is opt-in not opt-out.
towelguy 12y ago
I went back to Firefox in the last couple of months and I wholeheartedly agree. I used to use HTTPSwitchboard in Chromium (which divided into uMatrix and uBlock) and I miss it in Firefox.
gorhill 12y ago
I do want uMatrix ported to Firefox. The developer who ported uBlock[1] has now made it more easy for me to work on a port of uMatrix, as I have now a model on how to proceed + a lot of code which can readily be shared with uMatrix. Once it is ported, in all likelihood I will myself go back to use Firefox as my main browser. [1] https://github.com/Deathamns/uBlock/tree/ports/xpi https://github.com/Deathamns/uBlock/tree/ports/xpi
- bhrgunatha 12y ago
  Is there anything we can do to help? I'm not sure I personally can help - I've never looked into extensions, but there may be others who can?
niklasni1 12y ago
What was wrong with Firefox? I've used it every day since starting a new job seven months ago and I've not noticed any issues with it.
- scholia 12y ago
  Firefox has improved a lot and it has been good for more than I year (I switched back in the middle of last year). Before that it was slower than Chrome, and it crashed when trying to read very large pages (eg a tumblr page of gifs). Google helped to close the gap by making Chrome more bloated and much more unstable.
MistahKoala 12y ago
N00b here - why would someone use both? I've tried a couple of times to work with uBlock and uMatrix. I ended up going back to ABP each time. The 'block an ad on this page' feature is one of its best and most useful. That, and it doesn't go too far in blocking useful item on-page. As I said in a similar thread on Reddit a few weeks ago, uBlock has some way to go before it can be considered user-friendly (at least, for the user who isn't familiar with the intricacies of how browsers work). I would love to be able to use it, though. ABP is an enormous resource hog on my system, but more to the point, pages render so slowly when it's switched on.

gcommer 12y ago

I use NoScript and RequestPolicy for full white listing functionality in Firefox.

Nexxxeh 12y ago

As my paranoia ramps up year on year, I now use Opera with µBlock. For me, it has the polish of Chrome with some nice extras, but without the increasingly creepy Googality. It works fine, although I've not tried µMatrix. (I have my defaults changed to DuckDuckGo. Usually connecting via a VPN.) I've whitelisted a few sites I like to support (a couple of webcomics, HaD etc). I have a lot of filters: "62,501 network filters ＋ 40,728 cosmetic filters". Opera's task manager says the extension is taking up a mere 32MB. Probably not accurate, but a lot better AdBlock (my previous favourite). Off-topic but I wish people would stop using Mu for project names. Where is the Mu key on the keyboard? I have to copy and paste or alt-code it. Call the project microBlock or something! They use "u" instead of "µ" on Github, so why not just use something else entirely? µTorrent was the one that really irritated me because I couldn't type "utorr" to search for it on my start menu. I'd say something to gorhill (albeit far more politely), but it seems childish and ungrateful. He's clearly poured so much time and effort into making such useful software. "Great software but the name is fucking annoying, mate!"

gorhill 12y ago
I myself most often write "uBlock" and pronounce "you-block", as in "users decide". I originally used the mu character in place of the u to emphasize smaller resource footprint relative to similar solutions out there. I've never been good with picking name etc., unfortunately now we are stuck with it.
- Intermernet 12y ago
  Don't sweat it. It's actually quite a good name. It works both as "you block" and "micro block" depending on reading the first character as "u" or "mu".
xenophonf 12y ago
http://www.howtotype.net/symbol/Micro/ http://www.howtotype.net/symbol/Micro/ Sadly, the US-International keyboard on Windows does not implement a shortcut for the "micro" character (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306560 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306560).
- stinos 12y ago
  There's always character map which has this and like all others you can ever think of. A bit cumbersome, but at least one doesn't have to remember character codes and can search for characters by name.
  - seanp2k2 12y ago
    "Let me google that" pulls out character map pretty poor UX if you ask me. Almost as bad for search ability as calling your product "go" or "cloud" or "driver" or any other one-word generic, hard to find even with contextual terms around it.
    - stinos 12y ago
      pretty poor UX if you ask me yup. Has been around since NT or maybe even longer..
      - raverbashing 12y ago
        the poor UX is not the Character Map It is having to open it every time you want to type the name of µSomething
        Dylan16807 12y ago
        The poor UX is the keyboard layout throwing away altgr.
- driax 12y ago
  In addition, I pretty sure many European keywords can type µ by alt-gr+m, at least in Windows on my Danish keyword. Only know that because once I had a keyword were they actually had printed it on the key, just like they always do with € on E.
bla2 12y ago
If this is motivated by your paranoia, why are you switching to a closed-source browser?
- lol123456 12y ago
  If you are motivated by the love of free software, why aren't you thinking of the possibility that gcc can have a backdoor written by bribed immoral programmers ? Or has Richard Stallman convinced you that by mere repetition of the word free, free software is also moral software ? I have no doubts what so ever that Opera is run by ethical people and it an ethical company. In any case a security / privacy audit is a much more rigorous test. The whole free software movement is based on a pathetic assumption that if you can't read 10 million lines of open code you have to suffer from paranoia.
  - GhotiFish 12y ago
    A security audit done by whom? Surely not people paid by the vendor of the product bring audited... Right?
    - lol123456 12y ago
      Go read 10 million lines jack ass.
drvortex 12y ago
There is a μ on the German QWERTZ keyboards.
colechristensen 12y ago
On Apple keyboards Alt+m prints µ.
davidy123 12y ago
Use a compose key system, native on Unix (Linux, Mac, etc) and available on Windows. It's very intuitive and will open up your character vocabulary considerably. I use the caps-lock key for compose. http://fsymbols.com/keyboard/linux/compose/ http://fsymbols.com/keyboard/linux/compose/
bashinator 12y ago
> Where is the Mu key on the keyboard? At least for me, option-m is the µ key.
Tanath 12y ago
DDG lies about not tracking you. Startpage appears not to.

WorldWideWayne 12y ago

> Even though chromium is open it won't be good for the ecosystem. You didn't mention how or why. Personally, I hope Mozilla goes away and some other group comes along to fill the void because I don't think Mozilla consists of the right group of people to make anything worth using. I'm not using any Mozilla browser until they learn how to respect the native operating system UI guidelines. Instead they're trying to build some lame HTML-driven UI experiment. No, I much prefer that Mozilla just go away and die.

WorldWideWayne 12y ago
Awww, looks like I have an unpopular opinion. You should totally censor it and make it disappear so that your world can be sterile and comfortable once again!
- ferrari8608 12y ago
  Perhaps it's less about popularity and more your delivery.
  - WorldWideWayne 12y ago
    I doubt it.
    - eropple 12y ago
      I would be much less doubting in your position. I downvoted and flagged you for your jerkish rhetoric because it doesn't contribute to the discussion.
      - WorldWideWayne 12y ago
        Sure it does. I asked why Chrome, not being open sourced, is "bad" for the ecosystem. Unfortunately, I packaged that with an unpopular opinion. Hence, the censorship doled out by yourself and others. Way to go!
- 12y ago

_asummers 12y ago

How does uMatrix compare to something like Ghostery? Would it be redundant to have both?

ugexe 12y ago
Isn't ghostery owned by an ad company?
- _asummers 12y ago
  Yes, however the GhostRank feature that people don't like is opt-in not opt-out.

towelguy 12y ago

I went back to Firefox in the last couple of months and I wholeheartedly agree. I used to use HTTPSwitchboard in Chromium (which divided into uMatrix and uBlock) and I miss it in Firefox.

gorhill 12y ago

I do want uMatrix ported to Firefox. The developer who ported uBlock[1] has now made it more easy for me to work on a port of uMatrix, as I have now a model on how to proceed + a lot of code which can readily be shared with uMatrix. Once it is ported, in all likelihood I will myself go back to use Firefox as my main browser. [1] https://github.com/Deathamns/uBlock/tree/ports/xpi https://github.com/Deathamns/uBlock/tree/ports/xpi

bhrgunatha 12y ago
Is there anything we can do to help? I'm not sure I personally can help - I've never looked into extensions, but there may be others who can?

niklasni1 12y ago

What was wrong with Firefox? I've used it every day since starting a new job seven months ago and I've not noticed any issues with it.

scholia 12y ago
Firefox has improved a lot and it has been good for more than I year (I switched back in the middle of last year). Before that it was slower than Chrome, and it crashed when trying to read very large pages (eg a tumblr page of gifs). Google helped to close the gap by making Chrome more bloated and much more unstable.

MistahKoala 12y ago

N00b here - why would someone use both? I've tried a couple of times to work with uBlock and uMatrix. I ended up going back to ABP each time. The 'block an ad on this page' feature is one of its best and most useful. That, and it doesn't go too far in blocking useful item on-page. As I said in a similar thread on Reddit a few weeks ago, uBlock has some way to go before it can be considered user-friendly (at least, for the user who isn't familiar with the intricacies of how browsers work). I would love to be able to use it, though. ABP is an enormous resource hog on my system, but more to the point, pages render so slowly when it's switched on.