Reviews & Comments of ScriptSafe chrome extension

Overall very good compliment to uBlock Origin for blocking as/malware domains.

Love this as a noscript solution. Recently the extension icon is stuck as the grey one though, which makes me think it's disabled.

my cpu use 100%

This project appears abandoned, no updates in 4 years (since 2017.) I just updated Vivaldi browser to the latest 5.0 version and Hotmail would not open properly until I disabled scriptsafe, which made me check on updates to the extension for current browsers, which are quite different from those only a few months, let alone 4 years old... I'm thinking I need to go back to NoScript, which is updated constantly and works in all browsers now.

Great tool, robust, but appears to have been abandoned. There are a lot of features that aren't controllable on a granular level. Sometimes a site will be broken and no matter how many things you allow, it'll still be broken until you disable Scriptsafe altogether. There's no option to disable on a per-domain basis either, it's all or nothing in that regard. Still, there are a TON of privacy related features as well as ad and script blocking. Great tool, but has flaws and unfortunately it isn't being updated any longer.

This is one of the best browser extensions I've ever used. I understand it can be frustrating for some people to have to take the time to figure out what scripts are needed to make pages run, but I feel so much safer browsing the internet with this, and I personally only see it as a minor inconvenience in my typical browsing. The only thing I have to say against it is that it hasn't been updated in a while, which is a real shame. In fact, I believe it can no longer be downloaded on Firefox as a result (and I didn't realize any of this until I suggested a friend download it and couldn't get a download link for him). The extension still works just fine despite the lack of updates, but I would be thrilled to see development continue on this extension. Thank you for the fantastic browser extension! I'll keep holding out hope that you'll keep working on it again sometime!

if something hasnt been updated since before the pandemic then its not up to scratch.

I like this extension very much. However, I like to clean my chrome as much as possible, including chrome/local storage/levelDB. Doing so, however, deletes the settings. Can the settings be stored en localextensions, and load from there, instead of depending on the files in levelDB? Thanks!

It would be great tool, but problem is, that once in a while it resets all presets. Lets imagine you surfing through the internet. Day after day you are slowly creating your rules. You do it for months and you have set up rules for hundreds or thousands of websites. And then one day you turn on your computer, open chrome and you find that all those rules are lost, like tears in rain. Then you curse it and start again... And after some time, when you managed to recreate everything you lost... AGAIN!!!!!

Perfect

has SAVED me from malware, so I have yandex browser, installed extension called "Show password" that is have malware domain , req XHR to domain https://gmzdaily.com/ext/qm.php?f=svr XMLHTTPREQUEST https://mitarchive.info/ext/qm.php?f=svr XMLHTTPREQUEST

When the screen lock this extension start high CPU usage.

It's not working in kiwi browser properly I'm unable to remove or edit whitelist entries

Great for safe navigation of the internet !

Worked perfectly for me, even the formatting!

It works! Requires knowledge of when and what to whitelist in certain sites, but that comes with the territory of using an extension like this.

Love the functionality. However, sometimes pages would take 30s or more to load. I finally started disabling extensions and discovered that it is this extension causing the issue. I have hundreds of whitelisted domains, which is probably the reason for the issue.

Very helpful , can do many things (used it for ad blocking , user agent spoofing ..)

Block youtube comments and likes sections, even if avarything is whitelisted!

im soooo happy

Just recently it has been causing Google Remote Desktop (the web app version) to fail to connect even if all items (remotedesktop.google.com, apis.google.com, and gstatic.com) are marked Allow and/or Trust. The only solution is to completely disable ScriptSafe

If you want to surf securely and get rid of annoying or +18 ads, this extension is the solution. Block anything you want without Adblock Detectors. You don't block the ad, you block the domain where the ad comes from, that's why Adblock Detectors can't detect what are you doing. Such an amazing program that saved my life. Thanks to creators.

Extension does not block content on first load in Chrome/Chromium. After the extension is passed the web content (it pops in on the page then gets blocked afterwards) it will pass it though the ruleset. Could be a glitch, but I noticed it the most on weather.com. The extension also needs script specific blocking with heuristics and signatures so I can select which scripts from what domain are loaded. My previous belief was that this was adequate to block zero-day exploits against webkit and renderer exploits or some other bloatware feature of the browser, but it is not.

Great for blocking annoying scripts. However, I miss shortcut function whereby I could press a certain key combination on my keyboard to toggle on/off.

Perfect

Although it didn't help me in what I wanted it is still very useful in other situacions.

Terribly annoying to use. I prefer NoScript for Firefox. Much more intuitive and user friendly. This extension is very annoying and gui is terrible. The biggest issue with it is on Facebook and making comments or posts. I suggest future versions use Facebook as a sample test. Otherwise, I will be using Firefox when I go to Facebook. Aside from this, scriptsafe does speed up your browsing considerably.

Completely unable to block videos and gif from websites and don't have a option for stopping autoplay either

It works nice! I am using this is very much like NoScript on firefox. However, in the course of webdev over the years there is an increasing amount of use cases where important page elements simply disappear on a website when some site is not enabled. I believe this style of webpages are increasing, so what we really need is a shared database with a finer classifications of sites. I can imagine a kind of site-voting engine for script block users, so its easy to share the classification of a site and see classification from others. In the end its about a quick decision to include frontend code from certrain sites, sometimes its needed, sometimes not, sometimes its essential! I encountered some bad examples where a checkout flow was missing very important parts. So if sites which are known to create important content can be tagged, this information can be fed back to the script blocking extentions to support the user in the decision of enabling additional sources. I see a few different approaches to move forward: -an integrated evaluation scheme to simplify classification of javascript servers - maybe even a computation intensive black box approach where the code is executed in a box and the difference to the DOM is evaluated to judge the impact I think the users of this plugin are a really good user group to discuss this! :)

I've been using it for a long time now to block ads and other unwanted content. It's not perfect, but it's great. There are moments where it seems to have like a hundred things to block or unblock, but it's tolerable. Right now, however, I am experiencing a popup on my homepage "chrome://apps/" where it detects that I have things synched to Google and asks for permission to do so every time I launch Chrome even though I have it set not to provide that popup.

This is the first extension where I can control which specific inside sites (not what you enter but what the site is trying to open) I need to block. Sometimes I need to allow some sites like for a captcha and this is the first extension that allow me to do that

Pair this with AdNasuem or uBlock origin. Take back control of your web. Forbid bad scripts.

I find this extremely useful. I hope the project doesn't die. I would pay to support it, except I don't use bitcoin.

Seems like a good alternative to NoScript for Firefox. I'm glad this exists. Just what I was looking for.

Useful

THE BEST!

One of the best plugins

helpful

I wish the developer would just stick to fingerprint and script protection and clean out the crud from his codebase. But this all seems unlikely since the developer looks to have given up.

Functionality wise it is perfect. But it often looses all the settings. I only do backup of the settings maybe once a month, and just today I lost all settings accumulated over 3 months. :( It is not using preference storage correctly, and often on unclean shutdown it looses ALL settings, including. This is kills it.

One of the most useful extensions, though in the past months it keeps half-opening on click, and takes a few times to fully appear.

Does not allow blocking of individual scripts within a domain or sub-domain. The number in parenthesis in front of a domain/sub-domain shows the number of scripts within that domain/sub-domain, and mouse over shows those url's, but those javascripts can not be selected to allow or block. If I wanted to block a script, I would have to block the entire domain/sub-domain. Also, if you block a subdomain, on one site, it blocks it globally, add **.adservice.google.com to the blacklist and it's blocked on every site in existence, including google.com. What should happen is if I block a subdomain that's running scripts on a domain, it should be blocked ONLY on that domain,, EG, if adservice.google.com is being blocked on say testsite.com, then that subdomain shold ONLY be blocked on testingsite.com ONLY, and not blocked globally across any domain.

CANT REMOVE IT

I'm saved!

It need a more precise explanation about the options along side of the tabs buttons and options. many things it's disordered and confused a lot.

it worked. then it made my chrome flicker everytime i click on a link

Was great... Until the latest update. Now it blocks everything, and enabling everything one at a time is irritating, so I just disable it. Essentially it has become malware.

Just plain doesn't work.

You need to whitelist every domain that you visit.

This stupid extension every time after update lost the rules. Fix it!

Works just fine.

Love it. ScriptSafe is a must have.

Every site is unusable and I have to take a lot of effort to make it run again.

nice

A great add-on for the security conscious. It can be a heavy lift to get it set up for viewing websites that you routinely go to, but it puts you in direct control of what enters your platform, protecting you from dodgy websites and drive-by attacks.

I tested it on amiunique.org; the issues I had were, I had to allow scripts on that site to run in order to perform the test. As the only extension running, the following did not work for some reason: It did not randomize my time zone, nor my user agent, and it showed my list of plug-ins, and my hash tracking. I allowed it on panopticlick and it protected against some things, but not against fingerprinting, even though I had all fingerprinting options enabled. I am not sure why it didn't work as expected. Not behind a proxy and only used this extension.

Different troubles recently

This extension is very well made and runs some of my websites run more smoothly. The only concern I have with this program is that is can slow down the process of loading up a websites, but other than that it is a well made extension!! :)

this is a must on some websites. however it is extremely annoying to have to turn it off all the time for normal use. If you dont turn it off it has like 100 blocked items on IMDB for example. it's terrible in that respect

Annoying to use as of late. It very aggressively disables many many scripts which doesn't allow a lot of sites to work properly. So expect to be manually pressing that "allow" button for countless elements every time u want to visit a new page, or worse, if that new page has dynamic elements with unique names, you'll have to manually allow that element every time you reload the page. Too aggressive. Don't know why the devs made it this way.

the best, successfully blocked mining scripts. Except that, it is necessary to keep marking as Trust the sites ...

Causes issues with cloudflare sites

It just started blocking anything google related lately. The tabs that try to open google services will simply not load at all. Disabling ScriptSafe makes them load again just fine, and Google is added to whitelist as well.

It is efficient and easy to use

Take that new firefox chrome has outwitted you with this extension which provides the same function noscript did and part of tabmix+. talk about killing 2 birds with one stone finally i can open a link in a new tab by default again! firefox really messed up big time with this latest update.

It is great extension preventing unsafe scripts. But, it is not easy to use when you wanna allow all scripts temporarily except those which are known to be unwanted!

I use JSBlocker with Safari. Its a dream compared to this mess. Unfortunately not available for Chrome. With ScriptSafe: Pages don't load. Page functionality is compromised. The developers simply block just about everything as a default, even though some of what's blocked is basic site functionality. For about a month now I'm having one site after another not be able to load at all. A blank page is what I get. Open same page in Safari, no problems. Now deleted. A totally overrated extension.

This Chrome extension is a great replacement for NoScript 10 with Firefox 57 Quantum released in the last day with issues https://hackademix.net/2017/11/14/double-noscript/ . Like the old NoScript 5 for Firefox, ScriptSafe for Chrome found very intuitive setting up to individually allow or not multiple scripts per website and a temporary allow option, all with simple clicking. The list of scripts allowed or not can also conveniently be exported or later imported for backup purposes.

It is amazing, it works exactly as expected and above all, it can replace dozens of other extensions like blocking canvas, webrtc, youtube ads, etc. Obviously, some fine tuning by the user is constantly required, since it blocks all scripts. It is not install and forget as a casual adblocker, but the payoff is well worth it: a fast, safe and tracking free browsing. Thank you.

When Firefox drove me away, I needed a way to make chrome as secure as NoScript made firefox. ScriptSafe not only proved up to the task, but exceeded NoScript in terms of UI and feedback. This is what you want if you are fleeing the sinking firefox ship.

Easy to use ... white-list is great!

How do I uninstall this app? Seriously you can install this app but you can't uninstall?

Excellent. This one extension replaces a number of other extensions and returns my browsers to a nice simple Web 1.0 view without all the scripted junk.

I don't use the Internet without it. I won't use the Internet without it. I do not understand how anyone can believe they are safely browsing the Internet without it. If you thought loading a web page, perhaps your favorite newspaper, for instance, was a simple, two-way communication between your web browser and your newspaper's "server", then please take the time to re-evaluate. Nearly every web page is a sick intersection of tracking, marketing, and content delivery networks - all vectors for compromise - that your browser happily taints you with. If you like walking naked, with a blind fold, in public, then waste no time learning how to navigate the web with a script blocker. If you care about your Internet hygiene, then look no further. Donate as you can and be grateful that this kind of transparency is possible.

I installed this last night and this morning my timezone was set to Central & I could not change it. The control in settings was grayed out. I could not fully load pages. Pages would load one page or a few elements & stop. When I disabled it, my clock corrected to my timezone. I can't have a tool that breaks things like this.

cool

Also a long time user. With every update to Scriptsafe (and there have been A LOT lately), I have to re-trust or re-allow all my websites that I go to (and all their utilities and all their affiliates and all their social). This is really really annoying. Please leave our whitelists intact.

Doesn't seem to block WebGL fingerprinting, at least according to https://browserleaks.com/webgl. Otherwise really good.

Lately it crashes a lot but when i works it is amazing.

Great extension... thanks guyz for the work (Y)

Didn't work on anything for me

Really like this extension. Great work. Just one small bug to report, after changing permissions and using the little blue button on the dialog to reload, the page will reload again when the toolbar button is pressed (even without additional changes made).

even blocks the whole google image search results. wth

Is a life and data saver. Works like a charm.

Nice features but kind of sucks everything is global; ie, deny mytwitface on one page denies it on everypage. main deal breaker for me was login sites, as someone said..I can not sign into sony no matter which options i toggle off.

Semoga saja app ini bisa mirip seperti noscript di moziila firefox ^_^

Love it! The feature to avoid fingerprint tracking is wonderful.

Totally breaks websites that you must log into. After I installed it, I couldn't access my streaming media sites and when I couldn't log into Evernote, I realized it must be the new extension. I disabled it and now my Chrome works again. But I will say that if you can't use your browser, then it is secure! It works like security with a shotgun. If you take a shotgun and blow a hole in your computer, then it will be secure as hell. Nothing's more secure than a computer that doesn't work.

I became emotional and gave 5 stars, but seriously, with the extension enabled, I can't do anywork, neither developers related nor entertaining.

Not sure if there's been an update recently however I am finding that functionality is being broken for over half the sites I visit and it has got to the stage where it's less hassle to brwose without this extension, than with.

blocked everything..with this extension you can not use internet....

It is blocking scripts without showing them in the interface. The result is that for some websites you have to disable the extension altogether. This means that its disabled for all subsequent sites unless you remember to re-enable it. I keep coming back to this extension and then get frustrated as heck playing wack a mole with scripts on websites. The frustration builds up enough that I wind up ditching this extension for another script blocker as both my time is worth more than the frustration having to determine what to enable scriptwise on websites.

I really like ScriptSafe it's just about perfect for my needs. But there is one thing that I do not like and hope there is a workaround for it. The issue is when you are blocking things on a image site like imagebam foe example you can not click the image to zoom in. If I disable ScriptSafe I can zoom in on the image. But of course then I may also get nasty popups. Is there anyway to block the site but enable zooming in on images?

No more redirects after installing this and visiting the pages that once did that. I love it!

Blocking bullshit scripts! Literally blocks everything though. NP for someone w half a brain though. Good kush

at last i found it and i feel like i am at the right place. Thanks for developers

If you add a website to blacklist it blocks that website entirely, not just blocking the scripts..

Exporting and some kickstarter profiles would be tops. This app is fantastic.

"Could not move extension directory into profile." Got the above error. So closed the Chromium-based browser, then re-started ok now.

What a wonderful extension!