NoRedirect :: Reviews :: Add-ons for Firefox

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

by Jason Bratcher on June 1, 2012 · permalink

Just grabbed this yesterday, and have some tough questions about this addon:
A. I'm totally blind, so i have to use a screen reader full time to surf the web, let alone use a computer in the first place.
Using FireFox 12.0 Aurora in Windows XP Service Pack 3.
The screen reader i'm using is called NVDA (Non-Visual Desktop Access); can be tried by going to http://www.nvda-project.org and downloading a copy.
Most of the time, the extensions i manage to get going in FireFox work beautifully; Take the cases of NoScript, Noise, and WebVisum.
Standard dialog boxes are used where needed, and all controls (maybe 99% of them) are read perfectly.
This extension is a glaring exception to the rule.
NVDA does not read the text prompts next to the controls in the NoRedirect Options dialog;
Also, the table cells in the supplied table are not read at all (I.E., the text of the selected cell and column are not read at all; guessing it's supposed to be the highlighted NoRedirect rule i just selected.
NVDA just says "row", "row", "row" when i arrow up or down through the table entries.
B. i see at least 16 patterns of "edit", "checkbox", "checkbox" when i tap the Tab key on my keyboard to move between the different dialog box controls for this addon;
The edit boxes allow me to fill in the various entries;
I can toggle the checkboxes on or off, but I have absolutely no indication of the control's name at all.
Assuming there's various patterns i can fill in in these edit boxes and applying exceptions via the checkboxes.
One extremely handy edition to rendering text next to individual controls is to render text next to individual groups.
In this case, assuming there's 16 groups, the first pattern of "edit", "checkbox", "checkbox" I'm guessing is a default rule of some kind.
Maybe call this 'By default,'.
Then the individual checkboxes would have text next to them containing the control's name;
Huge note here; do not write 'checked' or 'unchecked' in the checkbox's name as part of the control; NVDA will indicate the condition of the checkbox as i change it.
C. No real documentation for this extension; kinda leaves me hanging, dazed, and confused…Lead Zeplin not included.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by Ed on May 6, 2012 · permalink

Before:

I click on www.target.com link, and my ISP routes to a site owned by my ISP.

My computer hangs forever because I blocked the ISP hijacker in my Firerwal

After:

I click on www.target.com link and my ISP routes to a site owned by my ISP.

My computer hangs forever because I blocked the ISP hijacker in my Firerwall

Before and After ...no difference.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

by Johnnydoeson on Nov. 24, 2011 · permalink

Hi, I have a problem with Pixiv. When I try to view a bigger version of a picture (for example, http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=big&illust_id=######), the server redirects me to http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=######. That is, from big to medium size. What would be the best config so the server stops redirecting me?

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by adam on Nov. 16, 2011 · permalink

Recently the web page often be redirect to china telecom's ADS. I tried to change DNS, modified the rules of firewall but it doesn't work. I really need to delete the sucker.
Today I just got this add-ons, recommended by one man who has the same problem.
Great add-ons and thanks!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by turnorburn on Nov. 15, 2011 · permalink

The ability to have user control is as it should be.. its a 5 star app!

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

by whatrevolution on Oct. 23, 2011 · permalink

Neither the default filter for dnssearch.rr.com, nor my own variations on it, ever resulted in a blocked redirection. It was a simple test case, googleeeeeee..., and NoRedirect can see and warn of the coming HTTP/Refresh, but doesn't block it. Tested in a clean profile, and inside an existing profile with this addon stack: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/whatrevolution/dissent/

Same result in both tests, except that my Dissent collection is able to block the HTTP/Refresh behavior in other ways.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by duyanning on Oct. 7, 2011 · permalink

better than Redirect Cleaner and Redirect Remover that only have a whitelist.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Daga on Sept. 21, 2011 · permalink

This plugin is fantastic for debugging redirects on a development server. It's like setting a breakpoint on every "Location:" header. No code changes required to pause/resume.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Apostrophistica on June 14, 2011 · permalink

When I visit family, I'm very annoyed to find any 404 errors suddenly leading to their ISP's (inferior) search page -- and when I was searching from the address bar, their ISP hijacked that, too, so I had to go in and change my about:config keyurl back to google -- but I like to see the 404 errors and I like to be able to "correct" them if possible -- especially if it's because the site mistyped the URL in a link, for ex., by leaving out the colon or putting the http:// part in twice -- and without having to go back to the original page to see what the error was.

My family's ISP wasn't listed, but I was able to get NoRedirect to work easily by deliberately typing in a bad URL and copying the first part of the URL. I then substituted "(?:[^/]+\.)?" for the first element of the URL, since it was obviously one of a set of servers used by Frontier (oops! did I just name the naughty ISP?), and now when I type in a bad URL, I get a nice 404 message, just like I expect. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I really don't like ISP's hijacking my browser like that. *grumpy face*

NoRedirect is easy to use and configure, but I think it should come with some kind of directions. I'm pretty good at figuring this stuff out (I had no idea what PCRE was before using this extension, and still don't really know), but I'm sure that many users would be well-served by a few user-friendly instructions on how to add an ISP that is not already on the list.

Thanks for the useful tool!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by ofaurax on April 21, 2011 · permalink

UI is a bit difficult to understand, but the addon works well.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

by Mysticlight on April 5, 2011 · permalink

does this work when you go to a web site and they link you you to a page to get you to buy into the web site? not sure if I am explaining this right! It is a web page that comes up when you go to a web site! I also want to Block this 2nd site from being linked to again!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Artem S. Tashkinov on Feb. 27, 2011 · permalink

Please, make it compatible with Firefox 4.

Right now it doesn't seem to work:

Error: Components.classes['@code.kliu.org/noredirect;4'] is undefined
Source File: chrome://noredirect/content/noredirect.js
Line: 40

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.2.4). This user has 2 previous reviews of this add-on.

by Kai Liu (Developer) on April 1, 2011 · permalink

Update: As of version 1.3, URL Flipper is fully compatible with Firefox 4.