I recently installed the Noscript plugin for the Firefox Browser. I use IE7 for general web browsing, but use Firefox for Entrecard dropping, stumbling, and for my Alexa toolbar. For those who drop cards off a list and want to get through their 300 as quickly as possible, read on. For those who like pages to load faster without being annoyed by a sea of ads, you may also be interested. I won’t review my general Entrecard dropping strategy.
What Noscript for Firefox does is block javascript. These days I regularly see pages having 3-33 javascripts running. My own homepage has 14 of them. If you go to Pingdom Tools you will see it’s usually the javascript taking the longest to load in a page. Now, if you are like me and load 50 tabs at once, a few seconds saved a page could save you minutes in the long run. As an added benefit, not loading all the javascript means that the Entrecard Widget often appears much higher on the page than normal.
So why not block all javascript and be done with it? Because there are some good scripts out there. Entrecard itself uses javascript. Alexa uses javascript. For that reason we have to configure Noscript to allow the good javascript in, and everything else out.
How to set up Noscript:
- Install the plugin. Restart Firefox. Make sure it is enabled. You should see a yellow bar at the bottom of the page with the word “options” on the right. We will use that options box later.
- Up top on the Firefox toolbar, click Tools / Add-ons and then click “options” for Noscript.
- On the “General” tab, check “temporarily allow top level sites by default”. One the bottom, be sure “automatically reload affected pages when permissions change” is checked.
- Under the “plugins” tab, be sure “Apply these restrictions to trusted sites too” is not checked.
- Restart Firefox. Now load your own homepage. See the yellow bar at the bottom of your Firefox browser that pops up after the page loads? Click on the ”options button”.
- We want to give permission for the following scripts to run. Click “Allow entrecard.com”, Allow amazonaws.com. Now some people put their entrecard into a container. So you should also “allow showyouradhere.com”. I allow alexa.com to run as well. If you disallow “googlesyndication.com”, then your visit won’t even be tracked, no more whining about bounce rate. I bet the whiny bastards cry about “no traffic” now.
- Restart Firefox and load your bookmarked tabs. You should see the Entrecard widget on every site. The yellow bar on the bottom should say something like “scripts partially allowed 3/12″ and then list them. If you have any issues getting this plugin to work, post the problem website below and I’ll try to help you. Anyone else using this plugin or a similar one to block scripts?
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28 users commented in " Configuring Firefox Noscript Add-on For Entrecard "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackback **********I had the Noscript add on, but I didn’t know how to configure it until I read this post. Thanks very much.
Oh, and thank you too for all the drops you have made on my blog this month. Tons!
I have used NoScript for some time now and have found it very useful for blocking excessive JavaScript.
Carol, interesting blog you have on genealogy. I was reading some gravestones yesterday online.
thanks for the play by play on how to use this. I used to use noscript (like over a year ago). But this seems like a good way of setting it up.
there are some other blocking plugins out there - and noscript is probably the simplest.
I just added this thanks to your showing me what to do. I am going to go try it out. I hope it does the trick because all that java makes me freeze half the time.
I think I will have to add this to my firefox…sounds like a great thing to have!
I like this! I’m going to have to add it to my firefox…ANYTHING to help pages load faster!
I have been using NoScript for well over a year with no problems and it does help in speeding up loading of websites. I’m anxiously awaiting the version of NoScript that works with Firefox 3 along with a few other Firefox extensions updates.
I’ve never used Noscript before. I’ll have to check it out; there are a few pages out there that annoy me to no end, even with a top-notch computer.
hehehe specially like the disallow googlesyndication comment about whining. as if google was the only way to track… sheesh don’t anybody have statistics on their own server, immune to the whimsys of google and javascript!!
Not sure what happened but it seems I lost the whitelist (i.e. sites I have approved to run javascript) I had accumulated in NoScript. So just a small piece of advice you might want to back up your whitelist every so often.
Jim, not sure why that would happen other than hitting the reset button. There are occasional updates to the Noscript plugin. Perhaps one of them reset the whitelist?
This was very useful! Thank you. And your instructions were great- easy to follow.
Since none of my other systems have lost there whitelist and all are running NoScript 1.6.4 and I know I have not hit the reset button the only other cause as a guess is Firefox crashing which happens occasionally.
Got it installed. But maybe working to good. Can’t seem to get Entrecard widgets to show up at all.
Chilly: Did you follow my directions to configure it, or just install it as is?
Yes, I followed just as you said, except for one thing. You say to “Allow Entrecard.com”. I didn’t have it to allow, but did have “Allow amazonaws.com.” and “allow showyouradhere.com”.
I even went to the whitelist tab and added Entrecard.com, but that didn’t help.
Something else I found seem odd to me is, I can go to any site and I have the bar at bottom of screen. But don’t have the bar at bottom when I go to my blog.
Even dumped the whole thing and then reinstalled it. Same happening again.
Thanks!
On the yellow bar click “options”, that will show you everything that is currently blocked. The reason your bar disappeared is you probably added your own site manually to “trusted sites”. I think step #4 is the issue. Be sure the box is NOT checked.
I just checked it out again after reading your last comment. That box isn’t checked. Also Entrecard never shows up in the list as being blocked, but it is blocked on all sites.
Oh and I keep seeing you call the bar yellow. Mine is gray. Could that mean anything wrong, you think??
I’ll keep playing with it and I’ll find what is the problem because I want it and won’t let it kick me. lol!
Got it working now. Sad thing is, that I’m not sure what I did.
But knew I would if I mess with it long enough.
Thank you for your help!!!
Great to hear Chilly. Sometimes it’s something simple like closing Firefox and restarting it that does the trick. Hope it speeds up your dropping.
This is quite helpful.
Dropping on a slower computer should go much faster this way.
I don’t like it at all and Firefox is my default browser. Too much trouble.
I can’t find it in my add/delete list.
How do I get rid of it?
Mary: To uninstall, go to the firefox toolbar and click tools. Then choose “addons” and click the uninstall button next to the noscript plugin. Then restart Firefox.
Do not run the latest update for this. I did tonight and this script now breaks the ec widget button.
Chilly, thanks for the warning. Did you try adding Entrecard to a list of safe sites?
Yes I tried that too. Can’t find a way to fix it yet. It also takes away all the yellow navigation buttons in the dashboard at Entrecard.
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