noscript VS kill-sticky

Good or bad depends on the intentions of the website you're visiting, and unfortunately also of the many 3rd party script sources it includes. Users should have a chance to decide which sites they trust to run JavaScript and which they do not, and this is the reason why 18 years ago I've created NoScript, and why it is still there and shipped by default inside the Tor Browser.

Use a different name, password, and email if you can. Keep an adblocker and noscript handy. Don't accept cookies from new sites. Maybe even use the TOR browser for better anonymity and safety while you're giving these new platforms a test run.

What is it?

I do (with the NoScript browser extension: https://noscript.net/). The main reason is to reduce my attack surface. A secondary benefit is it eliminates most ads and other annoying distractions.

I'll give an example of NoScript which is a great project that you should be using. Most people download the extension directly though their browser. Firefox shows 317,244 active users and Chromium shows 100,000+ users. Some people know of the website. Less people know of the GitHub project the NoScript Common Library (nscl). NoScript has 645 stars and nscl has 15 stars. 417,244+ active users and only 660 stars. If you use the project and you have a GitHub account, give it some love with some stars!

Here: https://noscript.net/

Kill Sticky bookmarklet[1]. Also works on mobile. Get in the habit of clicking it, you'll start using it a lot to recover that extra inch of vertical space that web devs love to take away from you for some bizarre reason.

https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky

I'm going to change your life: https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky

Works in every browser (I use it in Safari on iOS and Firefox on desktop). These fucking stupid sticky elements are so common, I almost reflexively go hit this bookmarklet on every website now. It makes the web so much better.

In the meantime, NoScript[1] frequently avoids them entirely by just showing the page contents with no JS at all, and Kill Sticky[2] cleans up the ones that require JS to show you the content you actually want.

[1] NoScript for Firefox & Chrome-based browsers: https://noscript.net/getit/

[2] Kill Sticky bookmarklet for all browsers including mobile: https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky

Or, a Firefox extension that adds a toolbar button: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kill-sticky/

kill-sticky just JavaScript so it will work on any browser

I found a fix!

https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky

Just add a little bit of code to a bookmark button, it works wonderfully.

Click the button and your scrollbar returns, the keyboard works again, _AND_ the page renders to a PDF beautifully.

You're welcome. :)