General discussion

I'm pretty sure these add-ons have different purposes. While Adblock Plus might help with security problems sometimes, it's main purpose is to block ads. While NoScript can block ads sometimes, it's purpose is to improve your security by stopping scripts.

I use No Script, Adblock Plus & CS Lite. The latter works just like No Script except it blocks cookies. I don't like all those tracking cookies. Only sites that need to recogniize me because of settings need to be let in. Yeah No Script can be a pain, but I like the safety. I've never had a virus or spyware, plus I'm careful what sites I go on.

I quit using No Script. There are plenty of scripts that are safe and not being able to see forms on web pages, use traffic exchanges and miss out on specials because they are all written in javascript ruins my surfing experience. If you have a good antivirus and firewall program then No Script is a waste of time. I use Panda and it catches everything. Stops viruses and spyware dead in it's tracks.

Now if you use McAfee or Nortons both being less effective antivirus programs then you would probably want to use No Script for safety and enable every site you can trust. Even the free antivirus programs plus the free Adaware work way better then Nortons or McAfee.

Rich Morris

Adblock targets ads, and is simple to use.
NoScript blocks everything, but not so automatic.

Adblock is probably the best as a beginning,
NoScript a later possibily of finetuning things.

Ads are driven by scripts, Hacks are driven by scripts, exploits are driven by scripts... Cross server scripting is driven by scripts... Control the scripts, and you control the lion share of the Web Browser based hazards you may encounter.

Also each, and every dynamic functions within a web page or an entire site for this matter is driven by scripts, that can be in simple form defined as a simple text statement such: "Begin script & End Script" statement... which the browser will interpret then process.

NoScript works by identifying the start, and end of each script and blocks processing them until the user acknowledges it to run or not. Hostile scripts work because they run invisible in the background without the user knowing. NoScript effectively interferes in this process, As a result Noscript combined with a tool such as WOT, should prove invaluable to secure ones online experience! They are easy, and they work!

Yes I think that you can and even you should use both. AdBlock will get a lot of ads out while NoScript will block everything that you don't want to start and replace some of them with an icon. You can then click on it to start the video or the sound that was stopped. Like that the downloading of pages is faster because you just dl what you need.
All I explain there for NoScript will not work like that at the beginning but you will have to play with several settings. It's not too difficult, just read everything slowly in the NoScript settings and try different one (I just work on 1st grade sites like site.com and not with www. and http://www. if you see what I mean).

In fact, that's an ''howto'' surf the web safer, faster and with more pleasure then ever
That's just my point of view and it works great for me. If I had children, they could (or would? excuse me, english is my 2nd langage) surf the net safely. Hope this help.

I also wrote it because of so much people who complain about annoying ads (yes they are) : everybody SHOULD know firefox, adblock, noscrpt or whatever other solution which keeps these ?!@°+=}> things OUT !!! That's this kind of message that should spam our emails ; -p

frOOm.

Is it really relevant to write on posts that have been here for over a year?

Javascript is not save coz many ads can exploits on it...

I use WOT, Adblock Plus, BetterPrivacy, and NoScript. After clearing up a third infection (Useless ZoneAlarm and AVG) i'm taking no chances and recently installed the lot. Everything runs smoothly in the background and if i need to, i tell NoScript to allow script on the page with two clicks. Now that i've pimped up Firefox, dodgy redirected ad pages on the sites i love will be fucking with the wrong computer ;)