Cloud Firewall


  • Cache of recent resolved hostnames is stored to addons (local offline) storage area in this format - SHA256 digest sums of Hostnames in Base64. This cache is used for subsequent page visits from the same site. Hence first time a site is loaded, there may be a slight delay. Subsequent visits the delay should be barely noticable, if at all present. This helps to minimize resource intensive crunching of "Is IP in IP ranges"
  • In future versions, we will look into implementing optional AES256 encryption of this cache, though it's already SHA256 hashes
  • Storage size is 5 MB for every addon. Once cache reaches 4.7mb, it will stop writing to storage. You have the option below to delete all cache. Future version will provide means to delete cache based on time of entry
  • You can also use the toggle switch below to disable writing cache to local storage. By Default, cache is enabled to help users in older hardware/Android Firefox.
  • Regarding Toggle switches in popup menu, the default upon install is "Allow all supported tech companies/clouds". Any allow/block toggling is not persisted across browser restarts i.e. whenever the browser is restarted, all switches are toggled OFF = allow top companies/clouds when browser launches. For advanced users : You have the option to persist the allow/block rules using the switch below.
  • Supported Browsers: Firefox from mozilla.org or Mozilla's "Firefox For Android" from Play store. A Cloud Firewall user helped test this addon in Firefox forks like Fennec, IceCatMobile from F-droid.org store in /e/ OS, Lineage OS and Fairphone FP OS. If you test this addon in any other combination of browser/OS, please share the results to me for updating this list.

    NOT Supported to use this with other Firefox variants like TBB, Palemoon, Waterfox.DO NOT use it with TBB or "proxy addons" from addons store. Read more.

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Set the default rules. They will apply to all pages which haven't own rules defined.








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