The last of the featured add-ons for 2013 are here! If you’d like to nominate an add-on for consideration by the board (you are welcome to nominate your own), just send an email to amo-featured@mozilla.org, and it will be added to the board’s consideration list. Have fun checking out these add-ons, and have a great rest of the year!
Bluhell Firewall for Firefox takes a different route, mostly by ignoring the problem entirely. There are no lists, no filters, no subscriptions - no settings at all (other than an on/ off button. Popular Alternatives to Bluhell Firewall for Google Chrome. Explore 24 Google Chrome apps like Bluhell Firewall, all suggested and ranked by the AlternativeTo user community. List updated: 8/11/2020 2:40:00 PM.
Firewalla is an all-in-one intelligent Firewall that connects to your router and secures all of your digital things. It can protect your family and business from cyber threats, block ads, control kids' internet usage, and even protects you when you are out on public Wifi. There is no Monthly Fee. I tried several times to make a contribution to the developer on the Bluhell Firewall page. I would get a box for a moment that said “taking you to PayPal” (or something like that). Then the page would partially grey out and become non-functional. Nothing else would happen. I cannot find a way to contact the developer other than through the comments window in the pay screen, which seems.
Pick of the Month: Bluhell Firewall
Get a faster browsing experience by blocking nasty web resources using Bluhell Firewall, the lightweight Ad-Blocker and Tracking/Privacy Protector.
So happy! Absolutely no ads on any site I go to! Now thanks to this lovely add-on, I won’t have to keep pausing my youtube videos to pause an annoying video app on the sidebar! And it doesn’t slow down anything, so that’s a major plus!”
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Bluehell Firewall is an extremely lightweight ad-blocking and tracking/ privacy protector.
How lightweight? As we write, the current version is a mere 42KB download, a fraction of some of the competition.
One reason for this is that Bluehell Firewall uses only five blocking rules. Apart from simplifying the add-on, it also greatly improves performance, as there are very few checks to make before any web resource can be displayed. Yet it still reportedly blocks about 7,000 .com and .net domains.
Another reason is that Bluehell Firewall's developer has concentrated on the core ad-blocking functionality, and not added any other frills, at all. There are no options or settings, you don't have to set up any subscriptions, it just works. (You don't even have to restart Firefox after Bluehell Firewall's installation.)
Arguably this does go a little too far. The ability to create a whitelist of trusted sites would be welcome, but, well - forget it, at least for now.
Bluehell Firewall scores well for ad-blocking, though, and it's definitely easy to use, so on balance it gets a thumbs up from us.
Bluhell Firewall Download
Version 2.5.0 'updated blocking lists'
Verdict:
Bluhell Firewall Review
Its total lack of configuration options may sometimes be an issue, but Bluehell Firewall does a great job of blocking ads without affecting performance, and that's what counts for us.