Add-ons
Reviews for Bluhell Firewall
357 reviews for this add-on
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Gr8 addon..really small, not a memory hog as AdBlock. Deliver xactly what it says. The only thing which can be helpful is to add an exception list
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.5.0.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent lightweight ad blocker that is perfect for Firefox on Android!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.5.0.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Please add the http://www.fano.in in the white list
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.5.0.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
First add-on I downloaded when I started using Firefox for Android. Works perfectly and very quick.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.5.0.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
It blocks ads pretty well
It also makes pages load faster compared to other ad-blokers
Thank you
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Please add blocking social buttons.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.5.0.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent! Thanks for this!
I have a suggestion, I hope you'll consider it:
For Android platform, move menu action from main menu to Tools submenu, to be less obtrusive. (For example, "Toggle Javascript Enabled" addon for Android has it's menu action in same place, under Menu->Tools).
Hvala, živio!
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
It's a nice add-on, faster than ABP and uses much less memory (so safe to use on your phone/tablet) BUT it breaks www.thestar.com which is the largest/most-widely-read newspaper in Canada so I can't keep it enabled all the time. I would prefer to put this as a "bug report" but there is no such section on your add-on page.
(in case you are wondering the issue is that no images on thestar.com will load, if BluHell is enabled. Tested with clean profile on BluHell 2.5 / Fx 34)
EDIT: I agree that previous rating was not fair, so here is my "real" rating. However, I would appreciate if you could investigate the issue and see how it could be resolved. I would point out that ABP with it's default subscription never has issue with that website. Thanks.
I suspect that is some kind of anti-adbock measure.
Btw, are you seriously rating the addon so bad just because of a single website? Hmm.
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Very good ad blocker , looks light on CPU too. Though it is creating 2 kinds of problems for me:
1) Some sites like a) http://www.moneycontrol.com/ b) http://www.snapdeal.com/ breaks completely
2) Some ads skips through like in:
http://www.investing.com/ (here side banners with target links like : http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=61301371&iu=/6938/FP_EN_site/FP_EN_Takeover)
If author wants i can give more examples of such sites. And i have tested all these sites in new profile in which bluhell was the only addon i installed.
Thanks very much to the author for developing a good concept in competetion with established ones.
Edit : No Updates , no response means addon is going downhill, hence rerating it . Bcoz there is no use if i have to disable and enable addon on every site i visit, specially the frequently visited ones.This means first i visit the site then see if all the elements are being properly loaded or not and if not then disable the addon and reload the site??
Why author is not providing support for blacklist atleast so that a user can atleast add sites which he frequently visits?? Uninstalling it now.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Works like a charm.
5 stars for the ability to add own rules, it lets through some ads on non-english and niche sites.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I've been using this for six months in Windows, Linux and Android. I like how lightweight it is.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.4.0.1-signed).Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Works similar to the well known expensive brands. Worked well and defeated most attacks when I tried to access ports.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.4.0.1-signed).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
@Diego Casorran (Developer),
No, I'm running nightly with E10 disabled. No BluHell icon on toolbar, and doesn't seem to be running in the background as far as I see.
Are you sure it should be running correctly on current nightlies with E10 disabled ? It doesn't work here. Uninstalling/Reinstalling didn't help either.
Thanks for the follow up, that clarified the problem since until now the only incompatibility i was aware of was e10s - just checked it myself and seems the CustomizableUI module got changed as well :-(
Well, and answering your question: No, Bluhell isn't marked as compatible with Nightly builds, and never was, but it usually worked - a shame the current situation, i'm sorry.
EDIT: Version 2.5 should now work on Nightly 37.0a1 with or without e10s enabled.
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
The benefit is it keeps the browser low on RAM usage, but blocks VERY FEW ads.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.4.0.1-signed).Well, if you consider 8400 .com and .net domains to be VERY FEW, then yeah... you're right..
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This works great on low powered devices like phones and tablets. Regular ad blockers are fine on desktops, but even on a quad core smartphone the performance hit is noticeable. Not with this add-on, ads are reliably blocked without increasing page rendering time.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.4.0.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Works as intended, it's my main adblock extension as far as it keeps being compatible with Pale Moon v25.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.4.0.1-signed). This user has a previous review of this add-on.Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Like Selenia said, I like to have more options with a desktop adblock (so Adblock Edge is great for that), but for Android this is perfect.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.4.0.1-signed).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
I have no issues with ABP on PC nor notice a speed difference. Might be due to having decent hardware. The 2 extensions fill a different niche Bluhell: Simple adblocking that gets most but not all ads(around 90%) with performance in mind. ABP: Endless customization including whitelist and blocking more than ads with complete ad blocking. The latter may be a bit heavy for embedded devices. That is where I choose Bluhell. It is Android compatible but does not slow down browsing at all. For PCs, I still choose ABP, but for Androids, get this. Hope that clears up the difference for some of the other users.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.4.0.1-signed).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Nice and lightweight, but sometimes an add isn't blocked or there's a white place-holder which I can't seem to get rid of, is there any way to do this?
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.4.0.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Simple and Powerful
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