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uMatrix difficulty
Saturday, January 20th, 2018 12:40 amI've been trying to learn how to use the uMatrix add-on in Firefox with scripts blocked by default for most pages.
For the most part, I think I understand how it works now, and I can get most pages to display ok. But it seems more frustrating than NoScript ever was for me.
A few days ago the links on a certain page weren't working, no matter what I allowed in the uMatrix grid. Even after disabling all matrix filtering, the links still didn't work. But in my other browser without uMatrix, they did work.
I found this info: About "the page is still broken after I created all necessary rules". It mentions that you may need to press the Shift button while reloading the page, to get it to work. I tried that, and it fixed that particular page.
Today I'm having a problem on this page: The 29 Stages Of A Twitterstorm In 2018.
No matter what I do, including shift-reload, including with matrix filtering disabled for both the buzzfeed domain *and* the global scope, the video in #18 does not display. In my other browser with NoScript, I only have to allow scripts for a few domains, and the video displays ok. The last domain I had to allow was "twimg.com". But "twimg.com" isn't even listed in the uMatrix grid. Do any of you use uMatrix? What am I doing wrong?
Update, 2018/01/21: In my testing this afternoon, twimg.com does get listed in the uMatrix grid, and the video does display. I did reinstall my browser and set up a new profile, but I think I'm using the same uMatrix settings as before, so I don't know what fixed it. Maybe I had Firefox's Tracking Protection turned on in my old profile (see my comment below).
For the most part, I think I understand how it works now, and I can get most pages to display ok. But it seems more frustrating than NoScript ever was for me.
A few days ago the links on a certain page weren't working, no matter what I allowed in the uMatrix grid. Even after disabling all matrix filtering, the links still didn't work. But in my other browser without uMatrix, they did work.
I found this info: About "the page is still broken after I created all necessary rules". It mentions that you may need to press the Shift button while reloading the page, to get it to work. I tried that, and it fixed that particular page.
Today I'm having a problem on this page: The 29 Stages Of A Twitterstorm In 2018.
No matter what I do, including shift-reload, including with matrix filtering disabled for both the buzzfeed domain *and* the global scope, the video in #18 does not display. In my other browser with NoScript, I only have to allow scripts for a few domains, and the video displays ok. The last domain I had to allow was "twimg.com". But "twimg.com" isn't even listed in the uMatrix grid. Do any of you use uMatrix? What am I doing wrong?
Update, 2018/01/21: In my testing this afternoon, twimg.com does get listed in the uMatrix grid, and the video does display. I did reinstall my browser and set up a new profile, but I think I'm using the same uMatrix settings as before, so I don't know what fixed it. Maybe I had Firefox's Tracking Protection turned on in my old profile (see my comment below).