Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and script block tool/addon

[aisha <aisha@aisha.cc>]

Try enabling clang and see what happens. llvm is a really good piece of 
software.

I generally also have pulseaudio and hwaccel enabled but thats up to 
you.

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Aisha
blog.aisha.cc

On 2020-01-25 04:39, Dale wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm checking that as I type.  It may not solve all my problems but it
> may certainly help.  Some scripts make one CPU core go to 100% and 
> locks
> up the tab the script is running on.  Firefox, to its credit, is sane
> enough to allow other tabs to work tho.  At least it doesn't completely
> lock up the whole thing.  Good code I guess.  ;-)  Anyway, it does that
> for about 30 seconds or so, I assume it times out or something.  Still,
> very annoying and worthy of just blocking the script completely. 
> 
> It appears clang is disabled.  If I read that correctly, that is the
> ideal setting.
> 
> 
> [ebuild   R   ~] www-client/firefox-72.0.1::gentoo  USE="gmp-autoupdate
> screenshot startup-notification system-av1 system-icu system-jpeg
> system-sqlite system-webp -bindist -clang -custom-cflags
> -custom-optimization -debug -eme-free -geckodriver -hardened -hwaccel
> -jack -lto -pgo -pulseaudio (-selinux) -system-libevent -system-libvpx
> -test -wayland -wifi" CPU_FLAGS_X86="-avx2"
> 
> 
> Thanks for the tip. 
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 
> 
> P. S. Top posting since reply was also.  Could be device related.  I 
> dunno.
> 
> 
> aisha wrote:
>> Firefox currently has some issues with addons and local storage.
>> Do you have the use `clang` flag enabled?
>> This compiles firefox using clang-llvm and fixes a lot of the 
>> problems.
>> 
>> ---
>> Aisha
>> www.aisha.cc
>> 
>> On 2020-01-24 22:52, Dale wrote:
>>> Howdy,
>>> 
>>> I use Firefox and have a issue with scripts on some sites.  I have
>>> noscript installed and for the most part, it works.  That said, there 
>>> is
>>> times when it doesn't do what I need.  It seems, from what I can find
>>> anyway, that you can either allow scripts or not allow scripts but 
>>> can't
>>> pick and choose.  For example.  Let's say I'm on abc.com and I need 
>>> some
>>> scripts to run but want to block other scripts.  With noscript, I 
>>> either
>>> allow all from a site or none.  What I'd like to find is a script 
>>> block
>>> tool that will list all the scripts and allow me to block some but 
>>> allow
>>> others.  Believe it or not, I use to use adblock, a much older 
>>> version,
>>> to do this.  I'd tell adblock to list all the objects, sort them by 
>>> type
>>> and then go through the scripts until I find the magic settings that
>>> allows the site to work but not run scripts I don't want.
>>> 
>>> I've installed and tried quite a few script block tools but none of 
>>> them
>>> seem to do what I want to do.  I've even tried a few addons that only
>>> had a very few users, just hoping it would do this.  Has anyone ever
>>> seen a script block tool, or some other tool with a different name, 
>>> that
>>> works this way?  I need a addon that allows me to refine and be
>>> selective on what scripts run and which ones are blocked. 
>>> 
>>> Thanks much to all.
>>> 
>>> Dale
>>> 
>>> :-)  :-) 
>>