XYMer's Home away from Home

Could be a new machine will make a difference, but I wouldn't run out and get something new before trying a different browser...

I use Adblock Plus with Safari, although I don't use Safari regularly. I wasn't able to locate the configuration options present in the Firefox version.

If you disable Javascript expect most of the websites you visit not to work. Modern websites lean on JS and will break when its disabled.

µBlock Origin is better than ABP for Safari...if you did not obtain the extension from the official extensions gallery, it won't run. Ever. It's disabled permanently. And Gallery support is only temporary...

Gonna be fun dealing with that, especially if you're a Netflix user as that site still uses Silverlight and will break entirely in Safari 12. Hopefully sites like that switch to HTML5, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Thanks Squishy Tia for the heads up.
I installed µBlock Origin and JS Blocker (the only thing I could find that seemed to do much of what NoScript does in Firefox) from here:

https://safari-extensions.apple.com/?category=security

which I got to via the Apple < Safari Extensions menu item.

Hopefully I'll be OK with my install from there and hopefully those 2 extensions will work in the future.

We don't use Netflix or any other movie/streaming service so that won't be a problem - but who know what else might be.

Thanks again.
btw - do you know of anything other than/better than JS Blocker for NoScript type functions.

What?!?! Silverlight is EOL and will be completely retired by 2021. If they're not working on a backup plan they're going to be completely, totally screwed in a couple years. They've got to be working on something standards compliant. That or they're planning on telling their computer-based customers either leave or buy a STB.

[6/7/18, 5:21:57 PM]: it seems netflix DOES support HTML5, just not if IOVARendererID is missing on gpu
[6/7/18, 5:22:03 PM]: which apparently it is with our out of date nivdia patches
[6/7/18, 5:22:12 PM]: hmm
[6/7/18, 5:22:39 PM]: DRM on netflix fails on html5. tons of diff solutions to fix it but not that are clean with our existing dsdts cause there is overlap
[6/7/18, 5:22:51 PM]: i need to figure out how to just patch DSDT with IOVARendererID
[6/7/18, 5:51:06 PM]: well after all research, i've determined it's not worth fixing. it requires 3 more kexts, tons of custom injecting and hacking, all because apple decided to limit the GPUs that can hardware decode DRM
[6/7/18, 5:51:49 PM]: would need lilu, nvidiagraphicsfixup, shaki kexts, would need to inject a fake ID into clover for gpu to pretend to be another GPU
[6/7/18, 5:52:10 PM]: I'd rather just never watch netflix again
[6/7/18, 5:52:17 PM]: once silverlight breaks
[6/7/18, 5:55:41 PM]: the bad part is, if cpu is ivy/newer, apple won't play any DRM music in itunes anymore unless valid decoder present, either IGP or gpu. currently they let software decoding work for our shitty haswells

Thanks Squishy Tia for the heads up.

Thanks again.
btw - do you know of anything other than/better than JS Blocker for NoScript type functions.

I haven't had to deal with any noscript type extensions yet on Safari, but I'm sure one of the others could recommend a (currently usable) good one.