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- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11640498, 7 years agoClearURLs is a must!
Why this and not other similar add-on?
Most of the other adds-on have around 13 rules to remove garbage fields. But ClearURLs has 65 rules to remove garbage fields and much of them are regex-rules (so the rule does not only block one field, it blocks all fields with the same structure). Also, ClearURLs is a open source.
If you are a kind of average user looking to improve privacy without loosing a decade studying a PhD in tech details... ClearURLs is the most complete ready-to-use plug-and-play alternative.
I would like to suggest future requests to the author:
1) To test the system performance impact of the 65 rules. I don't have know-how to distinguish if the 65 rules are indispensable. If "yes", then keep all and add more rules! But if some of them are exceptional and affects system resources/performance, then it could be interesting to prioritize system performance.
2) To evolve ClearURLs in an all-in-one add-on for URLs nasty issues ("clearing", "redirecting", "skipping" etc).
I perfectly understand the author' point of view, in the sense that some requests demand tons of work, not just for build the add-on, but also for keep it updated, supported etc. But from the user' point of view, less adds-on, less system resources, better performance etc... is always more than welcome and most desirable.
I will be more than happy to help donating for this kind of all-in-one add-on.
Congrats and thank you to the author!Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for your positive feedback, I am glad to hear that you like and hype the addon. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13262486, 8 years agoThanks, great addon hope it is kept updated to keep with growing number of nasty tracking URLs on the web! GUI is also really nice compared to other webextension addons I have seen. By the way, can you say what the
"Monitor extension usage and manage themes" permission is for?Developer response
posted 8 years agoThank you for your positive feedback. We use the permissions for the statistic in the addon settings. Only you can view your own statistic. The statistic is always offline on your pc.
Edit: You can also view and check our source code on https://github.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls, the addon is open-source. - Rated 5 out of 5by HardKoreG, 8 years agoGreat add-on. Could you add an option to remove the numbers that show up on the toolbar icon?
Developer response
posted 8 years agoThank you for your positive feedback. We will add this option to the next version.
Edit: We've add this option into the new version 1.1.1.4. After the review by mozilla, the new version is available. Please have patience a few more days.