Reviews & Comments of NoScript chrome extension

Humbly stating I provide super geek services, I red/blue team, audit and certify HIPAA/HITECH, PCI-DSS 3.2, and SOC II type2. I use three tracker/adblockers. Ublock origin, NoScript, and uMatrix. Ublock doesn't provide a clear interface for exactly what blocking is occurring in the background, while it does provide an interface to show you what sites were pinged, I frequently find I am required to disable it, before the functionality of a website works correctly. No Script is much more simple and fluid, I would recommend for the intermediate tech savvy, you can quickly trust a single tab, or you can "temp trust, always trust, or never trust" each website that the current one connects to such as ad servers and content delivery networks. If set the always temp trust the site you go to, and are willing to toggle a few permissions, you can lock in your choices and export/import/sync with browsers. Import and exports are not cross browser compatible, but are if using same framework (Chrome to MSEdge / EpicPrivacy / Adblock / (Opera / OperaGX are CHINESE OWNED) and Firefox to Firefox_Focus / Brave / TOR_Preconfigured / Waterfox). uMatrix has similar export features and is more fine grained and configurable per-site and domain. Offers ability to use the highest rate block list should you choose to, this is for the more technically savvy who seek fine grain control, all things considered, if you are only going to use one, this is the one I take the time to configure the way I like and it always puts the "ad site / bad sites blocked at the bottom. It also has a greater visibility into what is happening and a much greater fine grained control.

Best extension I use it for years. Should come with every browser as feature. Love it and recommend highly.

I've been using NoScript (NS) for years, I highly recommend it, and it's my first choice after experimenting with some of the other choices. I'm unaware of anything else that provides the level of control over website's scripts that NS does. Other extensions will require you to disable part or all of the protection to make a website they broke start working correctly because they lack this fine-tuning feature. If you're tired of the inability to selectively block "partnered" websites to make the website you want or need to visit work without potentially exposing yourself to attacks, THIS IS THE BEST I KNOW OF, and I know some security experts who also use it even though they'll officially recommend uBlock Origin because of their employers and because this product isn't for amateurs. Beginner users will find it challenging because it gives you control over EVERY website connected to the one you visit. If you are not an advanced user, you will have to learn how to use NoScript's customizable script-blocking features, and be wary of websites that are connected to the website you're visiting in order to make good decisions. Learning this will give you much better control over how the extension functions with each website and it will remember the settings no matter which webpage you go to. Unlike Malwarebytes Browser Guard (MBBG), Ghostery (G), Disconnect (D), uBlock Origin (uO), Brave's built-in script blocking (BP) and Blur (B), NS gives you full control over how NS deals with each webset and even sub-pages. I found that these other products caused some sites to break but provided no way to give access for other websites embedded in the broken one. For example, cloudfront.com is an important website, which shouldn't be blocked, that companies use to protect their servers from DDOS and other attacks, but they also offer tracking services under a similar name, and that should be blocked. When Brave breaks websites (and it does it fairly regularly using the default settings), I have to turn it off for the site and rely on MBBG and NS to catch the bad stuff. With NS, I never have to turn off some of NS's major security categories, nor do I have to turn off all protections, whereas most of these products require one or the other so I can use a site I know is safe. WARNING: avoid granting access for websites for pirated software, cracking, hacking, phreaking, phishing, stolen movies and videos, anything else illegal, and many porn sites as a lot of them are loaded with malware or are connected to other sites that have malware scripts that will attack and invade your computer. Turning off protection for ANYTHING on these websites invites such attacks, but will often be required if you want the website to work, so just don't try unless you're running a VM (if you don't understand, do NOT try those sites) and anti-malware software. If you have problems with NS behaving incorrectly, which rarely happens, you can go to the creator's forum website to report problems and get support: forums.informaction.com. Mr. Giorgio Maone (from Italy) is the creator and he's very nice. Problems that DO occur are usually because of changes to the way browsers function that Mr. Maone has no control over, which is what caused the big problem last year when several browsers caused NS to break. If you have trouble with a website, click on the NoScript icon at the top right of your browser window. If it's not showing, you'll have to open up the extensions controls (in Chromium browsers, click on the puzzle piece or similar next to the extensions' icons, and then click on the push pin so it'll be shown) by left-clicking on it. You'll see a list of all the websites involved with the website you're visiting. To the left of each website are 5 icons: default, temporarily trusted, trusted, untrusted (blocked) and custom. Click on the 2nd or 3rd from left, depending on how sure you are that you can trust that site. WARNING: If you know it's a site full of malware, such as PortableTurk.com and PornHub.com, do NOT trust anything, so mark those sites as untrusted. Settings you change for the website you're visiting will be applied to ALL websites you visit, unless you customize the settings as local (for a specific site only) instead of global (for all sites visited). Once you're done, press the refresh button in NS or your browser so it'll reload. Keep carefully trusting sites until functionality is restored. If trusting a site doesn't help, then set it back to the default. Sites with words like "click", "marketing", "tracking", "sales", "tag" and so on should almost never be trusted!!! When in doubt, click on a questionable site listed by NS and it'll bring up a new page with links you can follow to sites that will give you more info. Note that when you change settings for some sites listed, this may cause more or fewer sites to be listed, so don't be alarmed - this is why you use temp. trusted when you're not sure.

Quite an awesome app and experience

Good in principle, poor execution and options. Breaks most sites, can't spend a lifetime in manually whitelisting and figuring out which places work and which won't. It's mostly hit-or-miss on a large number of sites. Ideally there should be a blacklist of most used sites (from google to fb, twitter, amazon, youtube, yahoo, wikipedia, and so on sites) so that users could pick up crowd-created settings shared via options selection where a user could load and apply such shared settings or choose to create and use its own. Obviously that would require the extension to have a more granular control over what is allowed and what is filtered out. Until then it's not very useful IMHO... certainly not to me. Since it's not feasible nor practical in any way to use it I ended up uninstalling it rather quickly after testing it across a few major sites: 8 for effort, 5 for execution, 2 for support.

One of my two required extensions with Chrome, I absolutely love the control and security this extension gives. Between this and uBlock, Chrome just feels incomplete without them.

For the most part this extension is amazing, I've used it for months with only minor issues (namely just being minor annoyances not even really linked to the extension itself, such as what script is causing what to pop up and what are needed for the site to work), but, as it appears a lot of people started noting around February 3rd, the extension started having some... issues. Now, for me, the most prevalent was just that it forgot what was trusted, which was small inconvenience that was relatively easy to fix, if not just a bit annoying. HOWEVER, as of today, August 7th 2022, the extension seems to have completely broken on my pc. This could easily be an issue on my side and somethings gone wrong with my computer or connection, but given the similar accounts given by others on this page, I believe it to be an issue with NoScript itself. I cannot access any sites and had to turn the entire extension off just to load a single page correctly. Hopefully whatever issue is causing this will be fixed in the near future, because as I said, this is a great extension. It just seems to be a bit broken right now.

Excellent extension for getting the job done has also evolved a lot throughout time. Before leaving a bad review, please understand how it works and why it isn't working.

This extension is nice, but has alot of issues in Chrome and Edge chromium. I can trust everything on certain pages but in devtools i will see errors thrown for some of the javascript trying to execute. This breaks blade view in some places in azure and also microsofts own addon page.

keeps freezing when to many tabs open , after using in 5 tabs it freezes, Trusted web sites and scripts NOT SAVING resets when ever browser is closed, it is NOT supposed to be doing that. anything marked 'Trusted ' is Supposed to be SAVED as trusted and not reset every time browser is closed. the firefox version works way better.

I install it to block js stuff from google. Apparently everything from google is listed as trusted and I cannot untick the script for trusted pages. great.

This is hands-down, the best ever script blocker. INSTALL THIS EXTENSION!

A great extension for blocking scripts

The only reason that I am not giving this useful extension 5-stars is due to the problems that occurred with an update on Feb 3, 2022, that was effectively blocking scripts on all pages, but besides that SINGULAR instance that the extension caused problems it is an effective tool to keep scripts that you do not want running on your machine off the machine.

OK I'm not giving a poor review because I have been using forever and like it *HOWEVER* this evening's update completely broke Chrome. Found this thread on the forums too: https://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=26513

Awesome

its blocking youtube right now for some reason

As of today No Script is suddenly blocking elements of nearly all the webpages people would use. That includes normal things like using a search engine (e.g. duckduckgo) or using youtube. Could the Devs look into this? It's making normal browsing a bit difficult if everything is blocked.

Even with everything enabled, the entire internet is blocked right now. Not even google will load despite all of the scripts being allowed.

Today's NoScript update just broke the internet, or more specifically it broke Chrome. Nothing is working, not even YouTube. I can't even login into my Google account without disabling NoScript first

I don't know what you just did but now trusted sites don't work anymore

today's update of noscript broke the internet. Nothing is working. websites are broken. Youtube is broken. extension must be disabled in order for the internet to work.

For some reason I have to completely remove NoScripts to be able to do anything on the web. It has the little blue plus sign that means there is a top level site that is being blocked and it won't allow it to be unblocked. Likely happened in an update around an hour ago with how many reviews are talking about it

Great extension, if you put some efforts into configuration ❗️ For users, that want to use this extension for specific sites only: ❗️ right click on extension's icon -> manage extensions -> site access -> on click -> add templates for your sites This template: "*.example.com/*" should be enough for majority of sites Notice, that sites that are part of the blocking list in the extension won't be blocked outside of the list you gonna have in "site access" section, ie you can block content from a site, say some social media, on the other site, but keep using social media's original site without any issues (unless you won't add it the "site access" section) Mark this review as helpful, so that users stop complaining about this use case

Causes facebook not to be able to load, not sure if there is something I can do, adjust the settings or something to make facebook load?

Too much hassle to manually allow scripts, and especially finding which should or shouldn't be enabled.

It's great at blocking scripts and other privacy invasive elements, and does it's job well. That being said, the new window popout every time you click to change what you allow and disallow is incredibly annoying. There's no reason to have a popout like that every time, as most sites don't require that to change extension settings. A simple time delay on the new window popout would rectify this issue entirely.

The same on Tor browser for Chrome!!! NICE tested for WebRTC leak.

its a little confusing to use. frankly it would be nice if it could highlight known ad and spam engines so i don't accidentally check them off. there is no way to contact them other than to figure out their confusing forum. when i click it and i get the trust this or that window, a second window always pops up and i have to close it manually. its a bug, but no way to report it. i like having the ability to block things, but without knowing what i'm blocking, what those links are, what might be safe or not, its often hard to use.

Causes high CPU usage(%50-%60) on Brave browser

i have been using for a while now but today i noticed twitter .com wont load unless i disable this extention please fix this problem.

Why is there not an option to enable restrictions for a single tab? That is literally the only thing I would use it for. It's annoying af to have to enable global restrictions then manually turn them off again when I close the tab.

now i can get free robux

I have used this extension on Microsoft Edge since it allows Chrome extensions to be added to it. NoScript does its job well. I feel safe browsing the web with this extension preventing malicious scripts from running.

Great add-on! If it's recommended by PrivacyTools.io and even implemented into the TOR Browser, it's good on my book. If you haven't checked them out, they have other solid privacy recommendations.

This is, in my opinion, the only way to browse the internet. This is not a "set it and forget it" security solution that does some unknown tasks in the background, if you want one of those look elsewhere. This is a total control solution that requires a certain amount of hands-on active management. If that sounds good to you, I think that you will love it.

Breaks most websites

buggy, recently. cannot type anything on Amazon website if this extension is installed, even I made it to trust all sources. have to uninstall it.

If there's some way to sync, it would be perfect.

Quick notice: this extension is hard to use looks very sus. I'd rather not continue using it because it could be selling data.

It works! Helped me to find a culprit script that was breaking something on my site but wasnt sure which one! I actually uninstalled no script from Chrome after reading some of the reviews here. But there's nothing else like no script for chrome. So I went back and re-installed it. Then read some guides on how to use it. If you try to use it without reading that guide, you are going to get very confused. But after reading the how to, I was able to use it without problems. 10 mins later, I found the bad script and uninstalled it. Site is working great now!

Excellent extension, a must have! Hats off to the developers. :)

Works fine for awhile, then for no reason, loses all of its settings. Very annoying.

We need a functionality to allow all the scripts on a specific website. Asking the user to "Disable the restrictions" for every tab they open on that website is ridiculous.

I mainly added it to disable CNN's autoplay videos, because they eliminated the option to pause or mute ("yes, Winston, we have that privilege"). But even after I green-lighted Academia.edu it wouldn't load properly or let me download documents. So I'm removing it.

I have been using NoScript on Firefox for many years, with great satisfaction. Unfortunately, it's not working on my chromium browsers. I have both Chrome & Slimjet. It might be this current extension version, I'm not sure. I have added the SafeScript extension, & so far it is working. It's not quite the same as NoScript; but decent. I can't even import my Firefox settings, or set anything. The settings page is basically blank, & the little that is on there doesn't work. Hopefully an update will fix the issues.

Works great No lag or delay

Love it

Hi, I'm on macOS - Chrome version 79.0 - NoScript version 11.0.10. Since updating to current NoScript version (11.0.10) something strange happened, I keep getting the following message "In order to operate on this tab, NoScript needs to reload it. Proceed?" whenever I try to open the selection tab, on websites where I do not authorize use of cookies. If authorize cookies, NoScript would work just fine, and show the selection tab. Before updating, NoScript worked independently of cookie permission. Can someone pls explain why, since last update, I must authorize cookies for NoScript to work ? That is not how a Scriptblocker is supposed to work.

Stellar until this week. Updated Chrome to version 80, updated NoScript to 11.10 Now, right-click on NS button will not open the NS permissions window - It flashes into view for a split second, then disappears. Tried all of the regular fixes - reboot, reload, disable, disable others, cache, etc etc etc Any ideas?

Love this extension you will not be disappointed.

best of the best.

Thanks for creating a great extension. I never consius on my life on this part of web that JS is killing the web it self, and thanks to this extension, I can reduce the CPU usage of my laptop on the go and also protect my identity only to some people that I trust, even it's not all, still disallow js is a great Idea. Thanks!

This is a must!! You must have some patience and teach it but it's worth it!!

NO updates anymore ??? !!!

Hate the new interface. Sure a bunch of icons look pretty, but the old dropdown list was much more functional. I can't even figure out how to use this thing. I mean what's with a clock icon (or two) that has nothing to do with it. The old list type with buttons was much better. Think I'll see if I can install that instead.

Amazing extension.

The best.

This addon could be useful, but as most website use scripts, it means that you have to activate them 1 by 1 for each website that you visit. A bit ridiculous no ? I think an addon that could detect the really dangerous scripts could be more useful ! Thank you anyway, the intention is good and it seems to work well.

This is a fantastic extension. I'm very happy that it is now on the Chrome Store. This extension assures me that I can browse the Internet freely and not worry about much.

It gets in the way of everything I do.

Works flawlessly, tested on https://www.deviceinfo.me and no JavaScript is allowed at all. Thanks.

needs to be updated - also have the error - Your file was not found It may have been moved or deleted. ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND

This one stops the scripts. alot less overhead on my computer. I think the default (for all browsers, should be no scripts and the any scripts should be opt in. Or at least any long running scripts (more than 0.9999 seconds long) should be opt in or stopped temporarily or permanently.

That junk app does what it wants, this morning I could connect fine to to my mailo account with this app active and 10 minutes later I could not. Everything loaded fine and 10 minutes later the mail was off line and I got a message: "please activate Javascript" Save yourself trouble and dont use this app.

god

I've been using this extension for Firefox since years, and now I discovered that the Sicilian Giorgio Maone is also here on Chrome! ROCKING! This is an indispensable extension, a must have tool, for your privacy, security, and blocking invasive ads.

can't browse the net without this extension.

Broken. Does not work. Says "your file was not found. It may have been deleted" when icon is clicked. Stops webpages loading, and there is no menu to fix it.

It just works. :D

OUTSTANDING!! Kudos — and heartfelt thanks — to Giorgio Maone for his work and perseverance.

Must have, even for Brave (Chrome clone.) Replaces their "disable scripts" native button because NoScript does it PERMANENTLY. Works great with uBlock in advanced mode as well.

Great! But why it is offered by Hackademix, not Giorgio Maone (the developer of NoScript Security Suite on Firefox)?

always a 5/5 addon but one issue im having is no-script not saving my imported settings from firefox. i have to keep importing it every time i open up chrome.

Excellent extension

Bloody Finally! Thanks Guys :)

If you were only allowed to add one extension to you browser. NoScript would be the smartest choice. Knowledge is half the battle and controlling is the rest. You decide what a web page loads period. To the one that gave us this tool. Finally I can have the same kind of protection my "vintage" firefox does. Thanx "Common Sense" is required to understand next sentence: Never give them the satisfaction

There has been no better security extension for Firefox and I've used it for years. Now, after years of pleading, it's available for Chrome and it's about as identical as you could wish for! The only missing feature I've found so far is XSS blocking, but I bet we'll see that soon.

Five star product, just waiting on the stable release.

must have .. finally >>> thanks

This is a must have...

Excellent security extension, finally available for Chrome! Look forward to the June update! Good work!

Finally available in Chrome. Works just as great as it does in FireFox.

NoScript comes to Chrome.

I love this extention in Firefox. However, it does not work at all on many pages unless I reload the page several times. Needs to be refined before I'll use it.

"Gives out a security conscious joyful autistic screech"

Its awesome that this great tool has finally come to Chrome!