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Reviews for Bluhell Firewall
357 reviews for this add-on
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent ! Except for some sites with incorporated advertisements : the home page doesn't appear...
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.1.1-signed). This user has a previous review of this add-on.Rated 4 out of 5 stars
It manages to block youtube video ads, and the few sites I've tested don't have any ads on.
One thing this addon needs is the ability to whitelist sites, like ABP has. I don't like using adblock on sites like webcomics or imgur, who rely at least partially on ads for support
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
It's a wonderful add-on! Lightweight and useful!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.1.1-signed). This user has a previous review of this add-on.Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great add-on solid never had an issue
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.1.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent ! Except for some sites with incorporated advertisements : the home page doesn't appear...
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.1.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
... Furtherly cool would be, if: We could protect the site we "whitelisted" and are currently on and which IS secure, by BH FW especially, and also, if we could tell BH FW to block ALL content, which does not by standard flow to or from the site (or sites) we whitelisted, helpful for that is also the logging-tab we could wish for as a wishlist item, but believe me, you do not always wanna yourself look up the log tab and then enter manually all relating sites, which are connected to the site you, we, whitelisted, because it can and it mostly a LOT of other sites, mostly social net sites docked on to the site, but also ads and etc. So, an auto- option would be cool, where we can allow all "normal" (and also considered truly safe) traffic to and from our whitelisted site(s). As I said, it'd be cool, if BH FW also, on top of that, gave us all an option, by which we could simply block ALL other internet content except the whitelisted and to our whitelisted sites related secondary sites. That way, it would be the same as I already did in my pglgui in Linux, I added my own blocklist which goes from 4 times zero to four times 255, of course. I whitelist from this "true scratch and bottom", as one might call it. Some 4.2 billion IPs blocked. Normally, pglgui blocks "only" around 3 billion IPs, if all blocklists are selected. Acessing filesharing networks is definitely not possible with such strict setting, that is why it's preferrable to run a virtual machine with a less strict pglgui blocking for other than "normal" surfing.
And btw, by "protection" of our by us ourselves trusted and thus whitelisted sites, I do mean, that all other than the standard traffic from the allowed normal secondary sites IS NOT allowed and blocked. Meaning, any of those sad minority of maliciously motivated hackers or even bots would be blocked from entering the "session" we are in AT ANY site at all, allowing only us, the site, and the allowed, normal secondary sites. We could also feature a "trial run", no fear, haha no going commercial this time and not ever I hope for BH FW, LOL, no, but I mean a run, where we tell BH, what secondary sites normally dock on to our whitelisted, to be fully, entirely, protected site. It then saves those secondary site adresses, shows them to us, we can, if we want, even tick off some of them, or even all of them, which would of course be crazy, since we need at least some of them. From when we click on, it would say, your site is now fully protected against intrusions by method of IP-blockage of all other net sites, except further whitelisted elements, of course. We ourselves must be careful not to blocklist too many elements. To forego trouble, BH FW could feature profiles for blocking those and those ranges, without BH FW getting "bloated", running slowly or causing the browser, mostly firefox, to run any more slowly than normal. I did not experience ANY lag caused by BH FW, but only a drastic functionality decrease when acessing special net sites, because of which, I am taking the time to write this. Thank You, BH Firewall. Blue Hell, sounds REALLY good. Of course, there are other tools, but there IS NO other INSIDE-browser firewall for Firefox, there are only other kinds of security tools. At least, BH FW DOES something -- it blocks content I need. I see, it can block. So, I find it cool, secure, a program done by good, ethically good, because protective people. I would not ever want people to give in to mafiosos who demand money from poor bakery owners. Instead, we need protection, but by a tech tool. In time, ANY user will open up his pglgui so much, and pglgui under Linux as of now DOES sadly NOT feature profiles for different blocklist sets, so bluehell IS of use and IS of help to us all. Thank You. Philadelphia Freedom! :)
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Unique, light, and work great!
Useful as (Blu)hell...! :-)
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
BHF seems to block more ads than the big competitors, on the pages I frequently visit.
This is exactly the way software should be. Sleek, fast, and almost invisible -- yet functional.
Thank you Diego.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
This addon is good but fading. More and more website are getting able to fight against it. Please keep updating it.
I'm sorry that I didn't be specific. It's adblocking. The adblocking ability seems weaker now than before. FF shows more ads than it used to with BHF.
Okay. These are some examples but they are all Chinese websites. Yet I don't know about ad networks. They just look more colorful and flashy or animated.
https://tw.news.yahoo.com/ <=
http://www.chinatimes.com/ <= This shows more static ads
http://udn.com/NEWS/mainpage.shtml
Thanks for you time and reply
Thanks for the links. Well, i did a brief look and there are being blocked several resources on these sites, for example:
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/3862/g7du.png
You can see there the browser console open with my debug-enabled build reporting everything which got blocked. However, on the right-bottom side of the page i can see a little advert there, that specific one is served by the site itself, something Bluhell doesn't take into account. Hopefully this bring you some light.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
great addon!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.1.1-signed).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
please add a whitelist and this plugin will be perfect.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.1.1-signed). This user has a previous review of this add-on.Rated 4 out of 5 stars
+1 to white list option, otherwise can be great
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.1.1-signed).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Nice lightweight adblocker, however, it is in desperate need of a whitelist to take it over the top. Can't give it 5 stars until then.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.1.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great one !
Recommend it
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great firewall add-on. Highly recommended
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.0.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Blocks a few little things it's not supposed to, but overall a nice little add-on. Speeds up sites nicely. Turns off easily if needed..
Will send $$$.
How about developing a Firewall for Flash and Shockwave?
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This is fantastic extension It's lightweight & It dose everything that Adblock dose.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.0.1-signed).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
I thought my last review was too harash. I gave it 2/5 because it lacks whitelisting.
Here are my issues:
- no whietelisting
- conflicts with ABE
(when I have both installed some websites don't work, no problem with ABP)
- misses a lot of adds, especially on facebook
- doesn't block social buttons
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Seems to work fine. Not really needed if you are already running Noscript, I'd think. Quite happy that Bluhell warnings can be skipped with a single click.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.0.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
encountered a bug in latest nightly.
the bluhell icon disappears from the toolbar. might have to do with australis. going to add-ons and reinstaling bluhell brings the icon back.
would have reported on support site (no AMO) um I think in the future you should make one. btw keep up the great work, love the pure performance of bluhell.
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