Reviews for LeechBlock NG
LeechBlock NG by James Anderson
1,641 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Saurabh, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16518793, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cynitec, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by peachy, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jeff, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DimeMaker, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nogah7, 4 years agoSimply excellent and flexible. Only request of the developers it make a simple checkbox in this general options tab to essentially put 'about:addons' and 'about:support' and 'about:config' behind a password at all times. The workaround to protect Leechblock from being disabled (including by Firefox 'Refresh' or 'Restarting with Add-ons Disabled'/Safe Mode) requires this. I'm sure this will be addressed soon because the development team has proven very responsive by email.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12755506, 4 years agoVery usefull since it allows a daily buffer of time.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16487514, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14485689, 4 years agoVery useful, light blocking plugin. Much easier to use than my previous plugin.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16484255, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16472348, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Forty-two [Victor Prieto`], 4 years agoIt's a great application that is flexible with how you block sites. I personally like its ability to delay gratification. I have it set to delay opening websites by 45 seconds. Thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14898775, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by hazkaz, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jack, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13130181, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15372875, 4 years ago5 stars if I could figure out a way to block an index site (home page) and have sub-domains not be blocked by default (manual exclusions aren't suitable if you'll want to access pages via a Google search, for example). Other than that works great.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHere's an example of how to block the front page only:
reddit.com
+reddit.com/*+
See FAQ for details of exceptions and wildcards. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16336526, 4 years agoYou did a great service to humanity James! you've saved thousands of hours of mankind! I wish I could donate you but US governments restricted our access to Paypal in Iran.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Florent, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kristian, 4 years agoWorks really well, it saves me a lot of time I would otherwise waste with scrolling through YouTube or Reddit!
I have noticed that it is very easy to access the blocked sites by disabling the Addon from the addons page, which takes only a few clicks. This is probably not changeable from the extension code (to prevent bloatware extensions from blocking their removal), however, you can lock the extension yourself using the Firefox policy system, which prevents removal https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-using-policiesjson
For reference, this is what I put into my policies.json:
{
"policies": {
"Extensions": {
"Locked": ["leechblockng@proginosko.com"]
},
"ExtensionSettings": {
"leechblockng@proginosko.com": {
"installation_mode": "force_installed",
"install_url": "https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/leechblock-ng/latest.xpi"
}
}
}
}
This way, you have to remove the file and restart firefox, for me this is cumbersome enough to stop me from disabling the extension. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13152535, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Leonardo S. K., 4 years agoProbably one of the best, if not the best addon made in the era of digital addiction. What really makes this the best is the level of customization it allows. One feature I've been using for some time is the grayscale one. Making everything grayscale just makes watching videos for hours much less engaging, which is good.
One thing I was not able to do however (and that's not really a flaw, but more of a very specific combination of rules) was to be able to make all pages grayscale except ones that have .png, .jpg, .jpeg, etc on their url. I've tried * +*.jpg +*.png +*.jpeg but I was not able to make it work this way, even though it works with more clearly defined urls.
Anyhow, many thanks for making this. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 5724541, 4 years ago