Martin Brinkmann at gHacks reports
A new WebExtension version of the popular content blocker uBlock Origin was [uploaded on August 31] to Mozilla's official add-ons repository for Firefox.
The new version is compatible with Firefox's new WebExtensions standard for extensions, and will as such continue to work when Firefox 57 gets released.
This first official release of the WebExtensions version of uBlock Origin works for the most part just like the legacy add-on version.
Users may experience issues however when they upgrade from the legacy version of the add-on to the new version.
Raymond Hill, the developer of uBlock Origin suggests that 32-bit users of Firefox stay on version 1.13.8 of the add-on until these issues are resolved.
[Workarounds for storage limit bug for extra filter lists and custom settings described]
[...] Additional information [is] available on uBlock Origin's Mozilla AMO page, and the GitHub project site.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 01 2017, @02:21AM (3 children)
uBlock Origin too mainstream.
(Score: 1) by Mainframe Bloke on Friday September 01 2017, @06:57AM (1 child)
I use both :-)
Something about never having too much overkill.
(Score: 2) by citizenr on Friday September 01 2017, @09:59AM
mee too, + Ghostery and ContentBlockHelper, so 4 at the same time.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by mmh on Friday September 01 2017, @10:24PM
Thanks for that recommendation! For the last few years I've been running: Palemoon + NoScript + RequestPolicy + Cookie Monster + OTHERSTUFF.
I never knew uMatrix was a thing until right now. Installing and configuring uMatrix allowed me remove NoScript, RequestPolicy and CookieMonster while at the same time giving the same functionality and a much nicer user-interface.