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NoScript For Android Devices Released
Trailrunner7 writes "The new version of NoScript, the popular browser add-on that blocks JavaScript and other embedded objects from running on Web pages, is out in alpha form. It can now run on Android-based smartphones, giving users protection against script-based attacks on their mobile devices. The release of NoScript Anywhere includes a variety of new features, but it's the support for Firefox Mobile that is the big attraction. The add-on for Android devices is meant to mimic the desktop version, giving users the ability to set permissions for each individual site and use a default policy for restricting content. NoScript also now includes an anti-clickjacking feature and an anti-XSS filter designed to protect users from cross-site scripting attacks. The new version also works on Maemo-based phones and tablets."
With FF devs alienating their user base on the desktop side, the mobile version might have a chance to stick around if extensions don't break the same way.
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If only I could get it for my logitec revue
Can't wait for my crappy Rogers contract to run out so I can buy a sweet Droid and switch companies!
Which is a good thing, since the N900 is a dead platform from a near dead company.
While excellent news, this is old news. Note that the current release is alpha 9. These alphas have been around for months.
I have enjoyed using Firefox on my G2, and while the NoScript alphas do work, they definitely do not provide the same experience as their desktop counterpart. I'm hoping that by the time NSA reaches stable releases, it provides more of the ease-of-use and feature set I am used to on the desktop. Still, if you're using an Android handset supported by Firefox, I strongly recommend giving this a try. Adblock Plus is available, too!
Great - just wish you didn't need Firefox Mobile for it. Last time I tried it, it was HORRIBLE. Have they fixed it?
NoScript is about all that is holding me to FireFox. I would much prefer to use Chrome or Safari, but neither support NoScript.
Scott Swezey
My single biggest beef with Android (at least the Sense-flavored version that I have to use due to ActiveSync policies) is that there's no reliable way to disable HTML email and remote element loading. As a result, I'm continually guessing from subjects and senders whether or not a given message is safe to open.
Google and/or HTC developers really should know better. At least I have a decent browser-only solution now, but I'd prefer something integrated with the base system's webkit (assuming that's what's being used to render HTML in the mail client as well as in the lousy default browser.)
-Isaac
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So what? It's an evolutionary dead end, as far as I can tell. I'm not sure that "catch up" has much meaning in a "you're extinct and I'm growing exponentially" context. There is an unofficial port of Android for the N900, though, so you might be able to stave off extinction for a short time.
Should those nouns be plural?
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
I don't know about you but sometimes I wish I had NoScript on a mobile browser. There are sites that have popups that take 100% of your screen with a stupid ad and the "Close" button is the size of a pixel. This is done because most of the time you end up clicking on the ad instead of closing it. Thus more revenue for the site.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Thanks for the comment. Now go do something useful with your life.
I have a Nexus One. For whatever reason, Adobe Flash has no "move to SD card" option on my phone. Maybe on all Android phones.
Because of that, and because every time they rev it they bloat it another megabyte, it now consumes 14 MB out of the 256 MB available in onboard NVRAM. Which means I'm done installing new things until I either buy a new phone or choose to give up other apps. Which I've already had to do twice to accept Adobe Flash updates. Which means I'm down to apps I really didn't want to delete the other two times, and really really don't want to delete now.
So, I can't add NoScript. Certainly not Firefox and NoScript. Because, well: fuck Adobe.
What are Apple phone users doing when they browse to flash-based websites again?
Dude, please, settle down.
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or you can do something useful with your life.
Like waiting a year or more for iOS to implement useful and time-saving features that have already been available on Android and other platforms?
After all, without innovators determining which cool new features are actually useful, where would Apple get the new version of iOS feature improvements?
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool.
A technological tragedy if there ever was one.
The tech communication and scheduling world survived quite well before Siri. It's voice recognition. While definitely impressive, it improves performance how much?
On the other hand with advertisements including high-power graphics, video, and audio that chews up bandwidth, processes and RAM, and battery life, being able to block such advertisements outright provides for actual performance improvement.
Sorry, but based on Mozilla's track record of resource-intensive products, and how long they've struggled to compact Firefox down onto a mobile device, I can't see how there's a lot of advantage to using this on one. One of the biggest advantages would be preventing Javascript execution to conserve battery life, but when you're doing this inside Firefox itself you're not really getting ahead. And you're still using more resources just having the add-on, because Firefox add-ons are in fact Javascript themselves, and it's going to be active even for pages which have no Javascript in them. This should be a hard-coded feature in the browser, not an add-on.
The idea is neat, and yes there are security/privacy advantages, but the available browsers for Android already offer similar protections if you dig through the options. Dolphin and Opera are pretty nice alternatives to the default. People should check them out if they haven't.
Sad, I think you might have touched an Android fanboy's nerve :/
is that the download is forced via the Android Market... my table doesn't have Android market... it has AppsLib... when I try and go via the android market, I get a snotty message about there being no android phones associated with this account (my gmail account is shown)... OF COURSE THERE ARE NO ANDROID PHONES ASSOCIATED WITH THE ACCOUNT... it's a fsking tablet... not a phone... and my manufacturer has been stupid and not put Android Market on it...
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NoScript is a great product, but it is also worth mentioning RequestPolicy which is a great compliment to NoScript.
From the RequestPolicy FAQ:
Is RequestPolicy an alternative or competitor to NoScript?
No! :)
NoScript is a tool that gives you a default deny policy for JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins. NoScript allows you to whitelist scripts and objects from domains you trust.
RequestPolicy is a tool that gives you a default deny policy for cross-site requests. RequestPolicy allows you to whitelist cross-site requests you trust.
On both counts.
ran FF on a Tablet running android 2.2 and it was DOG SLOW (mind you this was on a Tegra 2,) and the UI looked like something that was designed for desktop. Opera was much much better...
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It's a dead platform I'd always say.
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
Full disc encryption to keep the dick cops out of my phone with their Cellebrite cell phone extraction device.
Then I'll worry about malware from scripts on web pages.
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/21/135610182/aclu-upset-over-cell-phone-extraction-device
no matter what, Firefox mobile is the best at handling javascript and ajax.
I have seen no other browser able to show a scroll bar generated by javascript except firefox.
At least, I can scroll.
Not sure if trolling...or pathetic loser.
It it going to ask me every time I open my browser whether I want to update, so that it can send me to its splash page with advertising.
I get that it's revenue generating, but it's also annoying as heck (would rather have a paid for version myself).
As a heavy Psion 5MX user (REAL KEYBOARD! NOT A SLIDER!) I felt the same way from the very start of the smart phone era... Sure, you had to tether your PDA to your phone, but otherwise, the ancient Psion still has many great productivity qualities and othe features phones have yet to match.
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Someone thought that releasing Firefox on a mobile phone was a good idea.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
I felt the same way for many years, the iPhone has only recently approached the level of functionality of my old Treo 650, and even then you can never write and compile apps on it.
I went from a candybar with a thumb keyboard to a slider and I thought it was a positive move. The landscape slider is the best layout possible for a phone IMO - you can get a widescreen the size of the whole device and a proper thumb keyboard at the same time. The only downside is that they're more fragile than a candybar and it adds some thickness (but with time that will become a non-issue).
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Root-agnostic adblock. All the current versions are completely inept.
Has anyone actually tried installing this add-on? I figured I'd give it a shot but it just downloads the XPI file and FF mobile won't open them - the 'open' button has no associated action. I've looked around to see why FF would do such a foolish thing but no solutions, only aggravations. Anyone else in the same boat?
Nope. You need to go look up the Psion Revo. About the same size a the largest-screen smartphones out there, yet all but the most fat-fingered can damn well touch-type, 10-fingered, on that tiny flip-out keyboard. The 5MX was a bit larger still. Both superwide-screen.
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