Reviews for LeechBlock NG
LeechBlock NG by James Anderson
1,603 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by iso, 5 years agoMade an account just so I could rate this.
The delay page really is the killer feature for me. I can set the timer to just long enough so that I stop the impulsion, but just short enough so that if I really need to access something during the block period I can, if I feel like waiting (which I usually don't). Alt-tabbing also cancels the countdown by default. The statistics breakdown for each blocking group is also brilliant.
There's a lot more features to this extension I haven't tried, but for now the way I have it set up works really well.
All of this under a copyleft license means a big thumbs up from me. I can't give enough praise! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15822115, 5 years agoI'm not happy to write this review.
I always thought that Leechblock NG was perfect, but yesterday I found out that I can easily disable it by going through the add-on options. Without typing the random password.
I have tried to follow the instructions on this site https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/faq/
But after hours I didn't solve anything.
I think I'll try "FocusMe" software. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13888127, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aksell, 5 years agoFinally a blocking extension that has everything! Clever grouping of sites with functionality for: delaying access, setting a max time and setting a schedule. And even if one site is in several groups and has multiple rules tied to it, the blocking rules interact and work together as one would expect! Very happy with this.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15815220, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by MeHumanISwear, 5 years agoWhen you can't control yourself with social media, to use this app would be helpful, if it wasn't so easy to disable in Firefox's options. You can even unblock the site at will. There is nothing an extension can do with these things, so try out an app. I'm trying FocusMe out, if I find it for free somewhere. It's not a bad extension, it's just too easy to get around it if you have no power over yourself. I hope this gets checked out and helps someone.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoUsers can limit their access to the options page, to prevent easy circumvention of blocks. Additional measures for preventing disabling/uninstalling the extension are detailed in the FAQ:
https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/faq/ - Rated 5 out of 5by theredpill, 5 years agothis is my first review and I consider this extension one of the best ;
- Rated 5 out of 5by brokenfoot, 5 years agoSo so so useful if you have trouble staying off distracting web pages. Works flawlessly and is fairly straightforward to configure and use.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12929316, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15767271, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by inoxy, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Happy Developers, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15261407, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Chris, 5 years agoWorks Great for me. I especially love the "Delay Access" option as it stops you from impulsively opening certain Websites.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15165830, 5 years agoGreat Add-On for productivity. It has all the features I need.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nawsf_vip, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by twonky, 5 years agoAs soon as I install/enable this extension, Firefox slows down exponentially. If I let it run for more than a minute or two I end up locked out of my desktop environment and I'm forced to hard restart my machine.
Tested on Firefox 73.0.1, Kubuntu 18.04, KDE/Plasma 5.12.9Developer response
posted 5 years agoPlease post bug reports on GitHub: https://github.com/proginosko/LeechBlockNG/issues
Thanks! - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13663613, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14059926, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by EAndersen, 5 years agoIf you're anything like me this extension will make you really aware of just how addicted to social media you are. Highly recommended productivity extension!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15642572, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by MSZ, 5 years agoAfter I switched from Chrome to Firefox, the first thing I was looking for was an alternative to StayFocused add-on, and a little Googling led me to this incredibly useful add-on for Firefox. What follows is my first impression, not a fuller review:
1. It is relatively easy to access the settings here. It should not be because when I am addicted to a site, I would just simply change the setting after my allocated time expires. Thus, the very purpose of using the add-on becomes pointless. It should be much more challenging to change the settings so that we are "forced" to maintain a strict schedule. I would request the developer to put this on their priority list.