NotScripts used on Gizmodo

NotScripts is a break through Google Chrome extension that gives you greater control over what javascript, iframes, and plugins run in your browser to increase security and lower the CPU usage. NotScripts can help to mitigate attacks like cross-site scripting (XSS) and drive by downloads by giving you control over what third-party javascript and content loads on the sites you visit.

NotScripts uses a unique and novel method to provide this “NoScript” like functionality in Google Chrome that was not previously possible. It introduces a break through technique of intelligent HTML5 storage caching to over come the limitations in Google Chrome that prevented an extension like this from being made before. This is one of the key extensions that many people have been waiting for since Google Chrome came out.

NotScripts’ homepage has lots of detailed information and is here on Optimal Cycling at:

http://optimalcycling.com/other-projects/notscripts/

The direct link to the NotScripts Google Chrome extension install page is:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/odjhifogjcknibkahlpidmdajjpkkcfn

I will writing more posts about how the inner workings of NotScripts works because I think it will be of interest to lots of people. I will also try to port NotScripts over to Apple Safari in the future once NotScripts has been out for a while.

Check out some more screenshots of NotScripts in action below:

NotScripts used on Youtube

NotScripts used on LifeHacker

Options Page Showing the Whitelist