Reviews for LeechBlock NG
LeechBlock NG by James Anderson
1,932 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tocoo, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14625831, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14670372, 7 years agoI hate it less than I love it. I hate it because it does its job PERFECTLY. And now I'm blocked, but it helps with my addiction to screen / infinite scroll / ...
I know I could go through it, but it creates an obstacle, which helps me do something else, spending more time away from the screen
Thank you, this is more than useful, it's not "just" productivity but even mental health.
Thank you so much.Developer response
posted 7 years agoYes, you can add exceptions: https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/faq/exceptions/ - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14663601, 7 years agoMuch needed! Should be an inbuilt feature in the browsers :D. I love the "Block Set" feature, thereby I can categorize my distraction websites and set different block times for each set.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14659692, 7 years agoProbably a bug, but this extension slows firefox down to a crawl on Kubuntu 18.04 (up to date as of 02/25/19). Loading URL webpages takes significantly longer.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13510844, 7 years agoVery useful. Has all the features you would want from such an extension. Really improves productivity!
Developer is also very helpful and quick to respond to questions! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14650496, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14649934, 7 years agoThis thing is great if you have attention issues like me and love to switch to time wasting pages. Does what its supposed to do. Now if only I could make myself do that also.
- Rated 5 out of 5by luuf, 7 years agoThis is a fantastic blocker, where I can specify precisely what I want! The only thing that I'd wish for is more than 6 block-sets, so that I can be even more specific about what I want to do with each site.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pranav, 7 years agoA functional and helpful addon to design time saving restrictions on the web and to eradicate bad online habits
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13384716, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14633158, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14632191, 7 years agoSimple, feature-rich, and very transparent - great add-on!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14628236, 7 years agoI've been using leechblock for years. Great functionality, really improved my productivity. I recommend it to all my students.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14616129, 7 years agoOh, performance... After deleting this add-on a CPU usage becomes 0-3% again (but it was 30%!)
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for the review. Sorry to hear about the performance issue. I've had a few reports of it, but not enough to trace the problem. Please consider posting this as an issue on GitHub (see support page) so I can gather more info. Thanks! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14606161, 7 years agoReliable and doesn't slow down my browser experience/performance in any way. I've used LeechBlock for years and it has kept me from succumbing to meaningless web browsing. Thank for for being free and doing a great job.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14602598, 7 years agoI really like the extension. It has all of the features that I require. My only issue is that twice now it deleted all of the blocks, settings, that I wrote for it, so I had to start with it from the beginning. Both times happened after I did some update..
Update: It seems this has been fixed. 5 stars for an awesome extension which helps keep me productive - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14598956, 7 years ago[Edited] Nice plugin which works as expected AND has good support. Note: For the override feature to work, be sure to enable "[X] Allow temporary overrides" in options. This has stumped me, but the dev looked into it and figured out my problem, which means extra points for support. :-)
- Rated 4 out of 5by geeforr, 7 years agoGreat addon, but not recommended for laptop users, as it seems to eat CPU. Loading up the about:performance tab shows LeechBlock consistently consuming huge amounts of CPU whilst doing nothing. Had to reluctantly uninstall it.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for the review. LeechBlock definitely shouldn't be consuming huge amounts of CPU! It should have only Low/Medium Energy Impact in about:performance. I would like to learn more about your setup to figure out why you experienced that issue. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14597032, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jorge, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14564261, 7 years agoEasy to set up and use. Life-saving aid to break addiction to social media websites.