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2 Months of TabGuard
NoScript’s Cross-tab Identity Leak Protection (or “TabGuard”) is an experimental countermeasure against the Targeted Deanonymization via the Cache Side Channel attack by Mojtaba Zaheri, Yossi Oren and Reza Curtmola, presented at Usenix Security in August 2022. It is loosely…
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NoScript, Red or Blue? Whatever Suits You!
The dust has settled, all the rough edges have been smoothed, and NoScript’s new UI is better than ever. Many usability and accessibility enhancements (from keyboard navigation to dark / light color schemes) have been added, and the result is just gorgeous, on the website too.…
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Contextual Policies & LAN Protection (ABE Quantum) in NoScript 11.3!
ABE Quantum is the combination of Contextual Policies, one of the most requested features in NoScript’s history, and LAN protection, an important “Classic” defense lost in the 2017 Quantum migration. After years of waiting and months of hard work, this good stuff (which I…
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Welcome SmartBlock: Script Surrogates for the masses!
Today Mozilla released Firefox 87, introducing SmartBlock, a new feature which “intelligently fixes up web pages that are broken by our tracking protections, without compromising user privacy […] by providing local stand-ins for blocked third-party tracking scripts. These…
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CCleaner Wiping Out Firefox Extensions Data: Expected Fix & Work-Around
I’ve just received an email from Stephen Etheridge (Avast): Hi there, I am a Product Manager for CCleaner and I’d like to share some information regarding a recent incompatibility between CCleaner and Firefox 79 regarding extension settings storage. The issue is covered in the…
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Save Trust, Save OTF
As the readers of this blog almost surely know, I’m the author of NoScript, a web browser security enhancer which can be installed on Firefox and Chrome, and comes built-in with the Tor Browser. NoScript has received support by the Open Technology Fund (OTF) for specific…
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A cross-browser code library for security/privacy extensions. Interested?
The problem Google’s “Manifest V3” ongoing API changes are severely hampering browser extensions in their ability to block unwanted content and to enforce additional security policies, threatening the usefulness, if not to the very existence, of many popular privacy and security…
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Freeze That Snake!
As you may have noticed, NoScript Quantum’s placeholders for blocked embeddings has an animation moving the NoScript snake icon from the center to the top left side when you hover it, in order to make the label more readable. Some people can find this annoying, but fortunately…
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Cross-Browser NoScript hits the Chrome Store
I’m pleased to announce that, some hours ago, the first public beta of cross-browser NoScript (10.6.1) passed Google’s review process and has been published on the chrome web store. This is a major milestone in NoScript history, started on May the 13th 2005 (next year we will…
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NoScript and the “downloads” permission
Dec 18th 2017 Update NoScript 10.1.6 reimplements the “Export” button functionality in a more convoluted way, which doesn’t require the “downloads” permissions anymore though :) Enjoy! It seems some users are really upset with NoScript 10.1.5.7 asking for an additional…