JShelter -- a firefox addon announced by FSF

This is really exciting news!

> is web security complete with Torbrowser, LibreJS, NoScript, and JShelter?

Not really, as far as I'm aware; intuitively I suspect vulnerabilities in the browser are a rather rare exploit compared with vulnerabilities on the server or choices made by the user.

Also, LibreJS is not a security tool; it is only focused on maintaining software freedom while browsing. Despite the fact that it does generally increase security as well, that is only incidental and done in a better way by NoScript.

(Tor Browser and jShelter a technically not security tools either, yet the overlap)

> Also is JShelter a combination of Javascript Restrictor and Shield.

Yes; the two projects merged.

LibreJS while it had good motives, was not really what people needed, this is what they needed. Yes indeed!

Javascript Redirector is a good addon, for any good FF based web browser.

I've been using it with abrowser on Trisquel. It's a bit different from other privacy add-ons, in that you set the security level for each page. So, unlike noscript where you are turning individual scripts on or off for each page, with jshelter you are just setting a "security level" for each page, and jshelter figures out how to implement that security level.

To install jshelter on abrowser, navigate to the Firefox add-ons page and search for the "Javascript Restrictor" add-on. That's what jshelter is called for firefox, and abrowser uses firefox extensions.

It works very well. It blocks ads also - in fact I would say it's a top-notch adblocker. This might be the only privacy extension you need - it's possible you could get rid of your ad-blocker and other tracker blockers all with this one extension. Very interesting. I need to run some tests on how well its anti-fingerprinting is working. If it works well, then this is a little miracle extension.

>"is web security complete with Torbrowser, LibreJS, NoScript, and JShelter?"

I wouldn't use it with Noscript or with Librejs, since you are then going to be having different add-ons trying to control javascript and other stuff on each page, often in conflict with each other. I would use jshelter by itself.

I wouldn't use it with Torbrowser, because Torbrowser is supposed to be used "as-is" in order to maximize your online invisibility. As soon as you introduce a new privacy extension on Torbrowser, you are going to stand out from all the other instances of Torbrowser and make yourself trackable.