
Bluhell Firewall: Lightweight Ad-Blocker for Firefox
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Add-on summary
All we know the availability of popular AdBlockers lying around... but frankly, these are too bloated with several features and options which most of us don't use beyond the defaults. So, this extension was made for those of us who don't care about all that stuff but does about just getting rid of all the nasty resources being loaded by websites.
This is a lightweight extension (ie, 30KB compared to ~700KB of other popular adblockers), which was made with performance in mind. No configurable options, subscriptions, additional features, etc It just block what can go to hell ;-)
How this is achieved is thanks to just seven hard-coded blocking rules covering about 8400 .com and .net domains, these were auto-generated from Easylist. That means, every time a certain resource wants to be loaded we will have to iterate through a list of seven compiled patterns, rather than for each entry from a common Easylist which contains hundreds of different items to check... You can now figure things out for yourself...
Next i'll let you decide if this is for you... as long performance is in your mind, it should.
You can turn the extension on/off at any time by clicking the toolbar button (Fx Desktop), or touching the menu item entry (Fx for Android)
User reviews
- Blocks ads and popups effectively
- Reduced Firefox RAM usage
- Warns about potentially dangerous sites
- The upgrade for Quantum was appreciated
- Works quickly and silently when functioning correctly
- Started using high power and disk resulting in freezing
- Blocks some trusted OAUTH login transactions
- Breaks some sites function
- Regularly used safe sites like email and online banking are blocked
- Does not have whitelist functionality for some sites users wish to support
- Effective ad and popup blocking
- RAM usage gets reduced
- Some trusted sites getting blocked
- Crashes or freezing issues
- Request for whitelist functionality
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Add-on safety
Risk impact
Bluhell Firewall requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk impact analysis details
- Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood
Bluhell Firewall has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
Risk likelihood analysis details
- High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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