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Blocklist-Update.sh

Blocklist-Update.sh is a script that I wrote to manage blocklists from bluetack etc to be used in conjunction with Transmission torrent downloader in Linux/MacOS. The script can be taylored to work with Qbittorrent as well, but the placement of the blocklists means you'd have to redirect the blocklist to go somewhere locally manageable as Transmission uses its own blocklist directory in .config. I believe there are about 10 lists there now. It works well for my needs. It can be ran weekly using crontab in standard user profile.  To download:  blocklist-update.sh To download the others:  Github
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Firefox 57 Turbo Boost well on its way!

Firefox 56 was a really big improvement to Firefox 55. I thought surely it couldn't get any better, it restored my faith in Mozilla as a company. I previously wrote an article about how Firefox was becoming Google and what you can do to get around it. I knew very little about just what Quantum was bringing us then, now it appears that they are almost on par with what Google Chrome has been about for a while now. Faster load times, better handling, and improved tab management is the cherry on top. There are some caveats though, Firefox as we now know it is changing, meaning that after this release, Firefox will not work on XP dated systems anymore. Support for that was ended. There is a good chance that older Linux distributions won't be bothered by this restriction though. Also, if you're like me and you kinda like older software, the way things used to look, feel, act, you're probably going to want to hang on to your version as long as you want. For those who want the oldies will have to settle for Firefox ESR. Many extensions are going way, as this is it for Legacy extensions, Firefox 57 will debut in under 8 days. Here's to Mozilla, 57 as a Nightly build didn't like Legacy extensions, however, it did offer users the option to look for replacement extensions. A little ambitious at the time, very few extensions were really full on Web Extension ready. We'll soon see if this will be as smooth a change as I'd hope. Noscript and Ublock Origin users shouldn't have a lot to worry about as far as extensions go. Firefox has already implemented attempts to cut back on its use of plugins by stripping out NPAPI support. NPAPI is the Netscape Plugins API which was first started back when Netscape had a high browser share. This means that flash is being blocked by default. This shouldn't be a problem though, I've all but discontinued it in my computer as well. It's dated, it was the source of many bugs and many unsavory sites still rather use that than HTML5 or some other media playing platform. All in all, I think it's shaping up to be a really good release and fine move on Mozilla's part. 

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