Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Mr.Moto on Jan. 21, 2016 ·

Another site that WILL LOAD but will not work properly with Bluhell enabled. The Citibank Rewards webpage loads Okay (no notification from Bluhell therer's a problem) but BluHell blocks the functioning of the buttons on the page. Buttons all work with BluHell disabled. I'm starting a notepad list of the sites that will load fine with Bluhell but still not function properly so when a site doesn't work I will be referencing the notepad list to help know if it's Bluhell or some other add-on causing the page to not work properly. When using other add-ons like uMatrix and NoScript it would be helpful to be able to add sites that Bluhell disables to a Bluhell White List so that I know that the issue with the website does not involve Buehell.

I'm still giving Bluhell 4 stars because Bluhell work REALLY GREAT!!!! --- other than the glaring need for a White List to deal with the very small handful of sites that need to be included in the list that load w/out any notification from Bluhell there's a problem but will NOT work properly w/ Bluehell enabled.

Of course 5-stars would be what I'd rank Bluhell with a White List available to deal with the a very small handful of sites (only two sites that I'm aware of so far that load fine but Bluhell causes to not function properly) and because the list would clearly be very limited in size would presumably NOT appreciably slow down the performance of Buehell. As I've said before, clearly Bluehell does maintain a White List behind the scenes for all sites that Bluhell blocks but is then instead "allowed" by the user via the Bluhell prompt to do so. The problem is that some sites are not prompted by Bluhell so the user would presume that the site will function properly when in actuality the site is partially disabled by Bluhell which would be resolved with the ability to add the site to the White List that Bluhell already maintains for some sites "allowed" by the user anyway.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.5.3). 

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Mr.Moto on Jan. 9, 2016 ·

This is a really great add-on which I'm happy to know works with Pale Moon. But that said, there are times when a website will simply not work with the add-on enabled. So the user has to remember which websites are like this and disable the add-on just when these websites are visited simply because if the add-on is disabled it stays disabled for all websites, which is why a White List is the obvious answer to this problem.

Example, street.com is not blocked but videos will not work unless the add-on is disabled. I have to remember this whenever I go to this website and then remember to enable the add-on when leaving the website. This is clearly not user friendly. I would add there are very few websites that are allowed by Bluhell Firewall but still will not work with the add-on enabled but there are a few which is why a White List is necessary. Let me add that the add-on actually does have to maintain a White List of sorts, that is websites that Bluhell blocks but the user sets to be "allowed" which then if revisited Bluehell Firewall will not block thereafter so obviously a "White List" is maintained by the add-on for these sites somewhere (probably cookie presumably). So if the add-on already maintains a White List of "allowed" websites that would otherwise be blocked then how is it that much more difficult to allow the user to be able to also set White List sites for sites that are not blocked but do not work with BluHell Firewall enabled? I would give it 5-stars with a White List.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.5.2).