Reviews for LeechBlock NG
LeechBlock NG by James Anderson
Review by Gentle
Rated 3 out of 5
by Gentle, 2 years agoWe wrote about how this extension makes firefox unresponsive, though it kind of is our fault for having 20 000 tabs open.
The developer responded -immediately- with a fix which we really appreciate and were surprised by. They told us to go to enable a performance setting in the general tab, that only considers active tabs.
However, the fix didn't work. It made firefox a little more responsive, but in that we only had to wait one minute per interaction with the browser instead of three.
The developer responded -immediately- with a fix which we really appreciate and were surprised by. They told us to go to enable a performance setting in the general tab, that only considers active tabs.
However, the fix didn't work. It made firefox a little more responsive, but in that we only had to wait one minute per interaction with the browser instead of three.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThe other thing you could try is increasing the value of the "Process tabs every __ second(s)" option. With 20,000 tabs open (!) there's going to have to be a trade-off somewhere.
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20097579, 3 days agothe absolute best! Works for everything, the configuration is a little bit confusing so I don't have time limits or the thing where you get a certain amount of unblocked time every week which would be cool but that's because im too lazy to configure it and because honestly just turning it on and off alone is such a game changer I haven't really needed to sort the rest out. Thank you so much!!!!!
- Rated 5 out of 5by minga, 6 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Venkat, 6 days agoSuper useful.. Saving my hours from distraction. Thanks for keeping this for free!
- Rated 5 out of 5by superinfra, 8 days agoVery robust and effective extension!
My only issue with it is that blocking a site overnight is harder than it needs to be, since the block time range only works if the second number is larger than the first.
That means setting 23:00-5:00 doesn't work, and you have to do both 23:00-24:00 and 00:00-5:00 instead. It works fine, but it sometimes says that the page will be unblocked at midnight even though it'll be immediately blocked right after.
Thank you for making this add-on! - Rated 5 out of 5by Joreck, 11 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Talos, 14 days agoAfter testing so many different distraction reducing apps, extensions, etc, this is the by far the best one i have found on any platform. It is incredibly detailed and customisable, with a focus mode (lockdown mode), different block sets, time based blocks, usage limit based blocking, customisable overrides (including limits on the duration and number of overrides), blocking pages, and so much more. My only wish is they turn it into an android app with similar functionality!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mitchell, 16 days ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Nikki, a month agoI find that this extension is very helpful for keeping myself from going to time-wasting websites while working on class assignments. The lockdown function is very useful.
- Rated 5 out of 5by José, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19128726, a month agoPhenomenal. Helps prevent me from doomscrolling on Twitter and Reddit.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20035164, a month agohelpful, we humans sometimes need help from technology to keep us away from the bad part of technology
- Rated 5 out of 5by Amadeu, a month agoSimple and useful. Has improved my life significantly by blocking the websites that try to make it worse :)
- Rated 5 out of 5by علي الخلقي, a month ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Fraeyalise, 2 months agoThank you for helping me break the habits of constantly checking the cesspool that is Facebook & reddit. I am much happier when I let leechblock do its thing