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NoScript Anywhere In Development For Android

Posted by Soulskill on from the now-if-only-it-worked-on-my-tv dept.

CaffeineAddiction writes "NoScript Anywhere (NSA) is the nickname for the next major iteration of the NoScript security add-on (NoScript 3), whose guts are being turned upside down in order to match Mozilla's Electrolysis multiprocessing architecture and implement a porting for Firefox 4 Mobile, available on Android and Maemo smartphones and tablets."

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  1. NoScript and VideoDownloadHelper on OPERA? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why can't Opera get into any of this? And none of the cheap hacks: Opera needs to get on the bandwaggon, maybe with a cross-over tool so it can use Firefox Add-ons because everything in the Opera community just has a "cheapened" feeling to it when someone makes something they say has equivalent function of a Firefox plugin or Add-on.

  2. Reminds me. I owe that guy money. by blair1q · · Score: 5, Interesting

    NoScript is probably the most useful thing on my computer aside from the browser itself. And without it, I'd think the internet and by extension the browser were awful, so the probability is approaching unity.

    Time to donate to the cause.

    1. Re:Reminds me. I owe that guy money. by LurkerXXX · · Score: 5, Informative

      Don't forget the shady stuff the maker of NoScript tried just 2 years ago. He silently killed part of AdBlock on comuters it was installed on, and obfuscated what he was doing. The shit really hit the fan before he started backpedaling and reversed his position. I don't trust the guy.

      http://www.techjaws.com/the-noscript-controversy/
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoScript
      http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/app-security/217201461

  3. Add-ons in mobile FF? Yeah, right. by ronocdh · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In my experience, mobile Firefox is beautiful in its replete feature set, but I find it deplorably slow—much like how Firefox 3.x was on the desktop. I haven't played around much with add-ons for fear of even longer browser startup times on my phone. NoScript is a wonderful project, but I'd like to see a lot more speed improvement on mobile Firefox before I go signing up.

    1. Re:Add-ons in mobile FF? Yeah, right. by Beyond_GoodandEvil · · Score: 3, Informative

      Opera has a much lower footprint as well. Fenec's best attribute for me right now is adblock and user agent switcher, some sites really piss me off by forcing me to their mobile site that's basically just a link to their app.
      This 1000x, wtf is with everybody deciding my mobile browser needs to be redirected to m.url if I wanted to do that I would have typed in that url. Btw use about:debug on the stock android browser then select settings -> more to get to the user agent switch

      --
      I laughed at the weak who considered themselves good because they lacked claws.
  4. Re:site-specific permissioning by MachDelta · · Score: 4, Informative

    Applications Boundaries Enforcer. (Options -> Advanced -> ABE)

    Site *.googleapis.*
    Accept from *.whateveryoursiteis.com
    Deny