Reviews for Port Authority
Port Authority by Hacks and Hops
Review by Firefox user 15028866
Rated 4 out of 5
by Firefox user 15028866, 4 years agoI like this extension for browsing the web, but when I launch jupyter notebooks from the terminal, I have to disable this addon so it will redirect to the localhost port properly. It would be nice to have a way to add per-site exceptions, or an exception for localhost in general.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHey I have a working version of the whitelist in beta. If you'd be interested in testing it out please follow the instructions here https://github.com/ACK-J/Port_Authority/issues/32#issuecomment-1720072034
Edit 3/11/25: Mozilla just approved PortAuthority v2.0.0 which has persistent settings and added the whitelist (gear icon). Enjoy!
Edit 3/11/25: Mozilla just approved PortAuthority v2.0.0 which has persistent settings and added the whitelist (gear icon). Enjoy!
72 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by nighter, 8 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19808205, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19640098, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by elsenfox, 3 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Forrest Aldrich, 3 months agoThe extension eats a lot of resources and slows down, or interferes with the browsing experience. Such that I had to disable it. Now, this may mean there should be refinements or other adjustments -- this is just my longer term experience, and I had to disable it. The extension does expose an area that I feel Firefox should protect against natively, however.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15089271, 4 months agoWhen I accessed a website, it attempted to scan my local network but was blocked, and I received an alert about this attempt. Great job, developers!
- Rated 5 out of 5by BillKoochooloo, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sniper, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ReindeerZ, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by kk-meng, 5 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Ugarov, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by crazy_slesar, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by kovalaleksbo, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Shoshanna, 8 months agoIts very good!
I read somewhere that it does the same as ublock origin when it has the block outside intrusion to lan. But i think this extension does so much more than that now when its been updated?Developer response
posted 8 months agouBlock origin is a great extension that I personally use. It accomplishes the same goal when configured with the "block outside intrusions to lan" list, but that wasn't always the case. Back when I first created port authority in March 2021 uBlock didn't have a LAN list.
This extension spurred conversation within the community which eventually led to them adding it in November 2021, which I think is pretty cool!
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/commits/master/filters/lan-block.txt?after=8f1450b968e3f8eae79e9aec3f89474ea265bf86+69
The benefit of port authority is the notifications and UI surrounding which portscanning and lexisnexis requests were blocked. - Rated 5 out of 5by kehd, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18077784, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by whatever, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by HaydenF16 Pro, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Claudiu, 10 months ago