Reviews for uMatrix
uMatrix by Raymond Hill
Review by Htom Sirveaux
Rated 5 out of 5
by Htom Sirveaux, 7 years agoYet another NoScript convert.
I'm glad FF Quantum broke NoScript and the new NoScript is such garbage, as it forced me to find uMatrix. With the pre-Quantum NoScript, it often devolved to "Temporarily allow all this page" until the page worked. Who knows what I was enabling?
The uMatrix interface seems intimidating at first, but after about 10 minutes I had it grokked. The granularity is great.
I do find that uMatrix behaves differently in FF vs Chrome, and I sometimes still have to resort to Chrome to get a page to display correctly. E.g. I use MicroCenter's web site a lot, and the reviews on there seem to come from bazaarvoice.com. uMatrix in FF shows only one element from bazaarvoice that can be enabled or disabled, while in Chrome it shows 20+. I can only get the reviews to display in Chrome.
Still, it's "vurry nize" and has allowed me to remain with FF (for the most part).
EDIT, following the dev's quick response:
Nothing to do with uMatrix, Privacy Badger was blocking bazaarvoice.com cookies. Once I allowed that, uMatrix in FF and Chrome were all nice and matchy. Thanks for the response.
I'm glad FF Quantum broke NoScript and the new NoScript is such garbage, as it forced me to find uMatrix. With the pre-Quantum NoScript, it often devolved to "Temporarily allow all this page" until the page worked. Who knows what I was enabling?
The uMatrix interface seems intimidating at first, but after about 10 minutes I had it grokked. The granularity is great.
I do find that uMatrix behaves differently in FF vs Chrome, and I sometimes still have to resort to Chrome to get a page to display correctly. E.g. I use MicroCenter's web site a lot, and the reviews on there seem to come from bazaarvoice.com. uMatrix in FF shows only one element from bazaarvoice that can be enabled or disabled, while in Chrome it shows 20+. I can only get the reviews to display in Chrome.
Still, it's "vurry nize" and has allowed me to remain with FF (for the most part).
EDIT, following the dev's quick response:
Nothing to do with uMatrix, Privacy Badger was blocking bazaarvoice.com cookies. Once I allowed that, uMatrix in FF and Chrome were all nice and matchy. Thanks for the response.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoI could see all the 20+ network requests with FF57, after I whitelisted `bazaarvoice.com` and `bazaarvoice.com`/`frame`, see:
https://imgur.com/a/PV3ZQ
It may happens that you have to force a bypass of Firefox's cache when you force-reload a page after you set a new `allow` rule, this has happened to me after I allowed a `frame` cell. You can force a bypass of the browser cache by pressing Shift while you click the reload button.
https://imgur.com/a/PV3ZQ
It may happens that you have to force a bypass of Firefox's cache when you force-reload a page after you set a new `allow` rule, this has happened to me after I allowed a `frame` cell. You can force a bypass of the browser cache by pressing Shift while you click the reload button.