Change Password
NotScripts Requires a Password to be Set
NotScripts Requires a Password to be Set
What the Password is For
A NotScripts password is required to be set for the initial use on a computer or if NotScripts was updated. The password is used to protect your privacy by preventing web sites from viewing the NotScripts whitelist caches. Due to technical limitations, you are required to open a file to set the password.
NotScripts caches some settings in the HTML5 local and session storage for each site visited to enable the blocking to work. These settings are the whitelist of sites that you allow scripts/iframes/plugins to run on. However, the HTML5 storage is also accessible by the sites you visit because it was originally meant for them to use for caching. To overcome this privacy issue, NotScripts encrypts the settings with AES-128 using the Standford Javascript Crypto Library to prevent access.
Instructions to Set Password
Setting your NotScripts password is simple once you’ve done it for the first time. Simply follow these steps:
Step 1: Navigate to the NotScripts Folder
Open the NotScripts Google Chrome extension folder. The location of this folder is shown below (copy and paste it into the location bar of a folder to get there):
- Windows XP: %userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\odjhifogjcknibkahlpidmdajjpkkcfn
- Windows Vista or 7: %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\odjhifogjcknibkahlpidmdajjpkkcfn
- Mac OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/odjhifogjcknibkahlpidmdajjpkkcfn
- Linux: ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/odjhifogjcknibkahlpidmdajjpkkcfn
Note: If you’re using Windows Explorer to navigate to the folder, you might need to set Show hidden files and folders in Tools > Folder Options… > View.
For convenience, it is recommended that you make a shortcut to this folder on your desktop or somewhere handy so that you can quickly reset the NotScripts password after an update.
Step 2: Open the NotScripts Password File
Right-click and select "Edit"
Open the file CHANGE__PASSWORD__HERE.js for editing. For Windows users, do this by right-clicking on the file and selecting Edit from the right-click menu. This will open up the file in NotePad for you to enter your NotScripts password.
Step 3: Set the NotScripts Password
Choose a password for NotScripts with the following restrictions:
Allowed Characters: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_1234567890
Spaces: Allowed
Put the password in between the quotes of the line that reads:
const ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD = "";
Example: FNqzJmJBA1GQFhuXBmEq20MqEqbn55w3MtT
It should look like this after (except with your own password):
Save the file and close it when finished.
Step 4: Restart Google Chrome
Close and restart Google Chrome for the new password to take effect in NotScripts. You are done!
Backing Up Your Password File for Future Use
When NotScripts updates or you try to use NotScripts on a different computer for the first time with Google Chrome Sync, you will be required to provide the password. It is highly recommended that you store a backup copy of your password or password file somewhere handy for these purposes.
Clear Your Browser HTML5 Storage if You Change to Another Password
If you change to a different password, it is important that you clear your browser’s HTML5 storage so that the old encrypted caches for NotScripts are also cleared. This can be done in Google Chrome by clearing your cookies, which also clears the HTML5 storage at the same time. Otherwise, you will have to manually reload a few web sites for the first bit after changing to a different password.
[...] your NotScripts password file (CHANGE__PASSWORD__HERE.js). This will tell NotScripts not to block the iframes but NotScripts will still selectively block [...]
This piece of garbage has hijacked my computer and will not let me delete it!!!
@Bill, you can review the source code of NotScripts to see that it doesn’t do anything malicious by saving the extension file from the Google Chrome extension gallery to your computer and unzipping it.
To uninstall NotScripts in Google Chrome, click on the Wrench->Tools->Extensions and click on Uninstall beneath the NotScripts icon.
How can I get the real path to this extension?
I have installed it both on Chrome and Chromium and I can only edit the password for the Chrome Extension and Chromium extension dir is nowhere to be found???
Mac OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/ Does not exist on my mac apparently
help
I have installed the Opera extension from https://addons.Opera.com/en/addons/extensions/details/notscripts, the version at the time of this writing is 1.1.0.
The problem after installing the extension is that I cannot access the ‘Preferences’ — when right-clicking NoScript’s pyramid icon, they are greyed out. The same when trying to access them via [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[E].
Double-clicking the pyramid icon instead of right-clicking it opens a blank/ window on the right side of the screen, which looks as if that was supposed to be the NoScripts settings screen. Helas, the window is empty, except for two links ‘Options’ and ‘Home’ at the top of it. Clicking them does not have any effect though.
Disabling all other extensions does not rectify the problem.
Is there another way to configure NoScripts from Whitelist to Blacklist and whatever else there might be to configure?
I have the same problem as Sale.
The mac path is inaccurate.
Sure did want to use this.
Guess, I’ll uninstall.
I get a syntax error when I try to open the CHANGE_PASSWORD… folder. help!
nevermind, i was trying to OPEN it instead of EDIT. (smacks head)
I messed something up, I deleted the folder where the password has to be and now what should I do?
Reinstaling wont work
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