Reviews for Impulse Blocker
Impulse Blocker by raicem
33 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Jan, a year agoDas Add-On tut was es soll: Es blockiert die Nutzung von Webseiten. Das Hinzufügen von neuen Webseiten ist einfach und intuitiv und der Pause-Modus prinzipiell sinnvoll. -> 4 Sterne
Ein Stern Abzug, weil nach Ablaufen der Pausezeit geöffnete Webseiten nicht blockiert werden und die es keine Möglichkeiten gibt die Pausenzeiten besser zu konfigurieren. - Rated 3 out of 5by alexandroid, 2 years agoNice, simple design. Main flaw - doesn't terminate the tab once the timer expires, it's only triggered on navigation events. Sometimes this is exactly what I want but in others it's not enough.
- Rated 3 out of 5by oneshark, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17722189, 2 years agoThis could be 5 stars if after you put it on pause, the site you have blocked would shut down when the timer ran out. As it is, you can navigate anywhere you want on the site you're on when the time runs out, as long as you don't leave that site or refresh the page. Not good for stopping rabbit holes unfortunately.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Jan van Aalderen, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12363296, 3 years agoYeah, it works at preventing you from opening a page that's in your block list when it's enabled. But it's a major flaw that if you pause it and keep scrolling on the same page it will never even tell you when the time's up.
Likewise, pausing it doesn't automatically reload the pages blocked which is a minor annoyance.
Also, a form of importing/exporting block lists would be nice. - Rated 3 out of 5by Buchner, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Nuno, 4 years agoDoesn't quite work for me. If it would limit browsing during the "pause" period to the selected pause time, it would be perfect. Just has it is, it's just easy to click on pause and carry on browsing indefinitely...
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15835311, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16509740, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Christina, 4 years agoTwo complaints:
1 - I wish the impulse blocker would come into effect as soon as the pause timer runs out.
2 - Sometimes after the pause timer runs out I can click on different links of the blocked web page without necessarily refreshing the page, even though the url does change, thus letting me continue to access the page. - Rated 3 out of 5by digigramer, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Bet, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by carlos72963, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14745534, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15391377, 5 years agoAlmost a great app. The concept is exactly what I want but the functionality still needs some work. It took quite a bit of troubleshooting just to get the blocking to work on any website (a hard refresh--ctrl + shift + r--wound up doing the trick), and as of now, it still doesn't successfully block Twitter, though this appears to have been a known issue for most of 2019. I'm disappointed but cautiously optimistic that the app will get better with a little more time and assistance.
I do love that it's completely open-source and minimalistic, though, and will bump up the number of stars I've rated the extension as soon as the bugs get squashed. - Rated 3 out of 5by Michael Große, 5 years agoWould be nice to automatically turn the blocker on/off at certain times of the day, e.g. from 8 in the evening to 8 in the morning to not mess with my sleep.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15038964, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15045287, 5 years agoNeeds to refresh the page after the pause timer is up for this to work properly. Either that or have some notification popup instead.
EDIT: the pause timer sometimes crashes the browser. I don't know exactly what happened but basically I clicked pause, restarted the website I paused, but then when I opened the Impulse Blocker panel back up, it didn't save the timer, meaning I could pause a second time while the website I was on was still up. I think the crash happened after I refreshed the page of the website I blocked. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15052151, 5 years agoGreat on desktop, but mobile version on/off functionality doesn't work.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoFixed in the upcoming versions. However I'm having trouble making that version reviewed and accepted by Mozilla. So needs a little bit of time. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14662736, 6 years agoGreat on desktop, but form buttons on mobile (on/off and pause buttons) are not working.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14496352, 6 years agoSo far it is great; however, there are two thing that would make this application much better:
1. Turning on or off should just be one click on the toolbar icon -- you should not have to click it once to go to the on/off toggle; it should just click (and be lit up when on) and click (and be unlit when off).
2. Having it default to the last implemented option as opposed to defaulting to "on" currently. - Rated 3 out of 5by geneklaus, 6 years ago