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Reviews for Request Control
Request Controlby tumpio
Rated 4.7 out of 5
4.7 Stars out of 5
Rated 4 out of 5
A terrific replacement for Redirector; I can do everything that I did with Redirector and way more. This addon works seamlessly and is very quick, the redirects that I set up add zero noticeable delay, as if I were to follow the redirected url directly. I've yet to try the Blocking action, but it's very handy knowing that the option is there, and I'm quite fond that this addon works at as low of a level as it does, blocking these requests before they're ever sent out.
Very happy so far, but I had to deduct a star due to the url path not supporting regex. I can work around this with parameter expansion substring replacement, but it would be nice to be able to do my matching in the path field.
Very happy so far, but I had to deduct a star due to the url path not supporting regex. I can work around this with parameter expansion substring replacement, but it would be nice to be able to do my matching in the path field.
19 reviews
- by craigevil, 22 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by The Beard Below My Chin, 10 months agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14065871, a year agoRated 5 out of 5Fantastic tool, really helps up debug issues on client websites to isolate production issues/fixes
- by David, a year agoRated 5 out of 5I had a problem with a website that I like to use using buggy javascript to repeatedly redirect me to an advertising page where I had checked the option many times over not to return me to that page. I contacted the webmasters, but they were no help whatsoever, and I was seriously considering having to quit using that website.
But then I found this add-on, "Request Control", and long story short, after setting up a "rule" to prevent that unwanted advertising page from appearing again, the buggy website now functions perfectly in spite of its own crappy/buggy programming. So thank you very much to Tumpio for a job very well done, your add-on does a truly terrific job, and I highly recommend it to anybody who is considering installing it. - by Asiel Díaz Benítez, a year agoRated 5 out of 5I just love it! really useful, finally I feel like I have the control.
- by stoically, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 13660010, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 13602479, a year agoRated 5 out of 5Works wonder!!
All of a sudden, redirection comes and comes with Firefox 57,which I thought
was kind of virus which we got in Google search articles. No add-ons worked but yours. Thanks... - by Chris Granger, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by recycler.fox, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5Nice one! Works as promised, great Help section - 5 stars. You got it, folks? - "works well", "terrific addon" and so on - it means 5 (five) stars! :)
- by Firefox user 13541889, 2 years agoRated 3 out of 5Seems to work well. However, it doesn't seem to support ports, e.g. example.com:82 etc. Is this something that can be added?
- by RainSlide, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Boolean263, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5I'm pretty happy with this so far! Its default rules take care of most of the URL trackers I'm used to seeing from Google and whatnot.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoHello Boolean,
thanks for your review! You can find more rules and samples in here:
https://github.com/tumpio/requestcontrol/wiki/Testing-links
More rules can be requested to be added as default rules here:
https://github.com/tumpio/requestcontrol/issues
Regards,
tumpio - by U64, 2 years agoRated 4 out of 5D'oh, accidentally put up an unhelpful review (The Mobile Add-ons site is still terrible). And I hadn't even noticed until I got the "Dev replied to the review" email.
Now, with 100% more words.
Pretty cool, does what it says it does. My suggestions would be being able to export/import rules and settings (maybe even sync across devices, a la uBlock Origin; but regular export/import to a file works just dandy).
The missing star is because of missing functionality in Fennec;you can't access the rules ad such (but they do work, along with the cleaning option). Perhaps adding a button that lets us open up the extension's settings (again, like uBlock Origin) is in order?
....Unless it was never meant to pop up in the Android Addons page in the first place...Developer response
posted 2 years agoUpdate: version 1.7.0 adds support for rules import and export.
Thanks for your complete review!
I will add the sync support once Firefox adds storage sync support for WebExtensions. I'll take a look if the file import/export is possible too.
Thanks for reporting the missing options in Fennec. It is odd that Fennec won't include any button to access a WebExtension's options. I have to read more about it.
Here are links for these two issues:
https://github.com/tumpio/requestcontrol/issues/8
https://github.com/tumpio/requestcontrol/issues/9
Regards,
tumpio - by FStl, 2 years agoRated 3 out of 5Is there any way to redirect requests by retaining or capturing the matched patterns?
For example, redirect http://www.example.com/* to http://www.example2.com/* so that the path specified after example.com/ is copied after example2.com/
It is not so useful otherwise. :-(