Add-ons
Reviews for RequestPolicy
211 reviews for this add-on
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
For me one of the most important add-ons for Firefox. I used it for years, then tried other solutions, but came back to it.
It's like a firewall, blocks all 3rd party sites, most ads and tracking scripts, which makes surfing more secure and much faster. This makes the bloated Adblock Plus/ Edge redundant (for me). Great in conjunction with NoScript, which gives the perfect security suite.
Yes, you have to do a little work to whitelist at the beginning, like NoScript. So it will probably not be for the average user, who will be stressed out. But in the end it will give you great security and a faster and less annoying web experience.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This is awesome. After Adblock and its thousands of filters made my browser next to useless, I switched to this whitelisting approach. A little harder to use but much faster.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
I use it some months now and must say, its great to know all the sites which want to crawl into my browsers cache (and maybe somewhere else)!
The placeholders for i.e. images are great. If you hover over a placeholder, you can read the source of the image and then decide to switch that site on in the preferences very quickly.
I'm only missing a sync feature. Im-/Exporting is possible though, but I'm working with my MAC the whole day and after work its very inconvenient/time-consuming to export and import the black- or whitelist to my PC
Beside this, its a great addon and its greatly helps users to get a clue whats "behind" the page, they're surfing!
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Very nifty security tool for browsing! There are still some UI issues to work out etc. (even in the 1.0 beta). Also this is sadly anything that I'd see becoming so easy to use that it could be installed by everyone. E.g. not something that I'd install in my parents' browser. The rule subscriptions of the 1.0 could be a step in that direction, but still I'd fear there might be too many services/sites that still would break, and the reasons for those would perhaps always be too difficult to show easily enough for the vast majority of ppl to utilize.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Fantastic! ....(because...) I do not know a lot about the internet or computing but am aware of the ever-growing necessity for the modern individual to increase their savvy in this field. This product has been very well made and the instructions for its usage are clear and simple. Thank you Mr Samuel for your time and effort spent in bringing us this add-on. PS., I employ both RequestPolicy and No-Script concurrently and thus far have encountered no problems that couldn't be put down to user ineptitude.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
I changed my mind on this, had to disable it. It interferes too much with noscript and too complicated to use for the average joe.
This user has a previous review of this add-on.Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I feel really naked, when I have to browse the web without it. That said, the android version of this addon isn't compatible with the latest firefox version (25.0.1), so I feel really naked there...
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
should be built-in on every browser
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Эта версия - 0.5.28, весьма неплоха и юзабельна. А вот у новых бета-версий интерфейс перепилен в соответствие с новыми веяниями и стал совершенно непотребен, что весьма расстраивает.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
One problem... I put in *.cloudfront.net and cloudfront.net into the destination whitelist and the origin-to-destination whitelist and it's still blocking all *.cloudfront.net by default.
NoScript had no issue whitelisting by the same method; haven't been able to figure it out without having to temp allow per page to keep the whitelist a little cleaner.
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
I must admit I really love the add-on but it has a few bugs. Mainly it's not always updating all requests (for example on sites that are mainly operated through javascript and not re-loaded through html) and sometimes it doesn't show all requests even if they're made by html (Noscript is showing the requests but RequestPolicy isn't). So when it doesn't display them I cant unblock anything and its not possible using the site, deactivating the add-on fixes it. Also sometimes it shows domains as whitelisted when they're blacklisted, sometimes it shows them blacklisted and whitelisted at the same time, without allowing to do anything when hovering over the whitelist entry.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Simple to understand and working well.
Ghostery is no choice for me since it is no libre software.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
very good addon for more privacy
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Absolutely perfect. This is a must have with Noscript
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
I suggest adding the ability to block a destination after enabling all requests.
Great addon btw.
Thanks.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
It's the one of my favorite addons, thanks.
But I think it could be more simple and easy in dayly use for everyone by adding more obvious visual methods like NoScript did.
Look at NoScript:
blue "S" symbol on a white backgroud opposite every blocked site in a list - to enable script on a certain site;
strikethroughed red signs with "S" symbol - such a GUI methods extremely helps not to make efforts to block/unblock sites using exceptionally a reflext only :)
And it would be handy for users to add possibility to open a menu on hover as is in NoScript.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I really like this add-on, but I've noticed that version 1.0.0b3 has been in beta for over a year. Do you still support this add-on, and if so when will 1.0.0b3 be finally be out of beta?
Thank you.
EDIT: August 28 2013, I guess as you have not answered my question this add-on is no longer supported!
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
nice add-on but:
There is a proposal to create a black list which would put adreasa to always block, even if the primary address is allowed. But it probably will be difficult to do because that would require a system of priorities - white/black list.
Or add selection menu modes: only white list or black only.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent add-on for the stated purpose. Have used for 2 yrs+ with no issues. Thank you!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.5.27.1-signed.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Buena aplicación.
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