Reviews for LeechBlock NG
LeechBlock NG by James Anderson
1,603 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14663601, 6 years agoMuch needed! Should be an inbuilt feature in the browsers :D. I love the "Block Set" feature, thereby I can categorize my distraction websites and set different block times for each set.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14659692, 6 years agoProbably a bug, but this extension slows firefox down to a crawl on Kubuntu 18.04 (up to date as of 02/25/19). Loading URL webpages takes significantly longer.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13510844, 6 years agoVery useful. Has all the features you would want from such an extension. Really improves productivity!
Developer is also very helpful and quick to respond to questions! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14650496, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14649934, 6 years agoThis thing is great if you have attention issues like me and love to switch to time wasting pages. Does what its supposed to do. Now if only I could make myself do that also.
- Rated 5 out of 5by luuf, 6 years agoThis is a fantastic blocker, where I can specify precisely what I want! The only thing that I'd wish for is more than 6 block-sets, so that I can be even more specific about what I want to do with each site.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pranav, 6 years agoA functional and helpful addon to design time saving restrictions on the web and to eradicate bad online habits
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13384716, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14633158, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14632191, 6 years agoSimple, feature-rich, and very transparent - great add-on!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14628236, 6 years agoI've been using leechblock for years. Great functionality, really improved my productivity. I recommend it to all my students.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14616129, 6 years agoOh, performance... After deleting this add-on a CPU usage becomes 0-3% again (but it was 30%!)
Developer response
posted 6 years agoThanks for the review. Sorry to hear about the performance issue. I've had a few reports of it, but not enough to trace the problem. Please consider posting this as an issue on GitHub (see support page) so I can gather more info. Thanks! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14606161, 6 years agoReliable and doesn't slow down my browser experience/performance in any way. I've used LeechBlock for years and it has kept me from succumbing to meaningless web browsing. Thank for for being free and doing a great job.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14602598, 6 years agoI really like the extension. It has all of the features that I require. My only issue is that twice now it deleted all of the blocks, settings, that I wrote for it, so I had to start with it from the beginning. Both times happened after I did some update..
Update: It seems this has been fixed. 5 stars for an awesome extension which helps keep me productive - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14598956, 6 years ago[Edited] Nice plugin which works as expected AND has good support. Note: For the override feature to work, be sure to enable "[X] Allow temporary overrides" in options. This has stumped me, but the dev looked into it and figured out my problem, which means extra points for support. :-)
- Rated 4 out of 5by geeforr, 6 years agoGreat addon, but not recommended for laptop users, as it seems to eat CPU. Loading up the about:performance tab shows LeechBlock consistently consuming huge amounts of CPU whilst doing nothing. Had to reluctantly uninstall it.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoThanks for the review. LeechBlock definitely shouldn't be consuming huge amounts of CPU! It should have only Low/Medium Energy Impact in about:performance. I would like to learn more about your setup to figure out why you experienced that issue. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14597032, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jorge, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14564261, 6 years agoEasy to set up and use. Life-saving aid to break addiction to social media websites.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14557627, 6 years agoit has everything i need. Block page and let me study. very good work
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12813110, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14550054, 6 years ago