> “I find ScriptSafe to be easier to monitor scripts than with Firefox/NoScript.”
I’ve been using NoScript in recent years, and go to a fair number of unsavory and probably dangerous sites. I don’t turn on scripts unnecessarily, though, and almost never do so when explicitly warned. Of course, I also don’t download software from sites I don’t trust (though I download a lot of software in general).
I’ve been on the internet since the early days and — knock on wood — have never knowingly had a virus (had some caught by my antivirus program, of course, but never had any that ran and caused noticeable problems to my computer). Maybe that’s mostly luck, but in the recent years that I’ve been using NoScript, it seems to have done its job.
(The biggest problem I’ve had with NoScript is that some pages need so many scripts that it takes a long time to check out enough of them individually to get the essential parts of the page running, so sometimes I just leave. If ScriptSafe will check them all at once, and give me some kind of readout showing which ones may be a problem, then that’s a feature I’d appreciate.)
I deal with this problem by running both NoScript and uBlock Origin. If some site (typically a news site) tries to run scripts from 15 sources (literally!) and I don't want to figure out which two or three really need to be whitelisted, I'll temporarily disable NoScript and let uBlock Origin knock out the dozen that are just trackers and crap.
The Firefox add-ons I use are mostly for security, with a couple of utilities thrown in. I am maintaining a table on my FR homepage (here) showing what add-ons work for these purposes on Firefox and the three alternatives I am testing.
I will not surf the internet without NoScript or some equivalent. As shown in my table, the closest equivalent I have found on Chrome is something called Quick Javascript Switcher. I've been using it for only a day; but it seems like it might be usable for the purpose. I'm open to other suggestions from people who have more Chrome experience. I've just recently started with Chrome and will probably only stick with it if Firefox and both of its cousins die.