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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.

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.

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.

--> 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.

That's what I like about Opera/ScriptSafe. Once you figure out which sites to blacklist (either specific pages or the whole domain), you never have to deal with them again.

It's a pain at first, deciding what to let through and what to block. Unless I am certain, I will just block the specific page I believe to be a problem. If more pages show up under the same domain that I want blacklisted, I'll block the whole domain. Pretty much the same process for me in whitelisting pages and/or domains.

I am willing to live with the sterile look and feel of Opera, but learning they were sold to a Chinese company last year is concerning.

> “I deal with this problem [multiple scripts on a page] by running both NoScript and uBlock Origin.”

Thanks, I’ll consider doing that too.