This manual is for GNU LibreJS (version 7.21, 17 September 2023).
GNU LibreJS —an add-on for GNU IceCat and Mozilla Firefox— detects and blocks nonfree nontrivial JavaScript while allowing its execution on pages containing code that is either trivial and/or free.
Many websites run nontrivial JavaScript on your computer. Some use it for complex tasks; many use it gratuitously for minor jobs that could be done easily with plain HTML. Sometimes this JavaScript code is malicious. Either way, the JavaScript code is often nonfree. For explanation of the issue, see "The JavaScript Trap"(http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html).
If you care about freedom in your computing, and don’t wish to let all and sundry make you run nonfree programs, now you can prevent it by using LibreJS.
You can install LibreJS directly using a generated librejs.xpi file, or by building it from source (See LibreJS Development Notes).
You can also download it from https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/ or https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/librejs/, but due to Mozilla’s review process the download isn’t always up to date.
After installing the add-on, you will see the LibreJS widget in the add-on bar at the top right of the browser window. After loading a page, left-click on the widget to view the deactivated JavaScript code from the page (both on page and external) and, if applicable, the scripts that were accepted.
Scripts may be blacklisted or whitelisted through the pop-up menu box.
Whitelisted scripts will always be accepted and blacklisted scripts will always get rejected.
It is important to note that this feature recognizes which scripts are blacklisted and whitelisted based on hash. This means that even a slight difference in a script’s code will cause it to be recognized as a separate script.
Sometimes, JavaScript will be dynamically generated so that it is different every time a website is loaded. These types of scripts cannot be whitelisted or blacklisted since they cannot be recognized.
LibreJS has a default whitelist of scripts that are known to be free but may not declare their license in a format that LibreJS can understand.
It is very important to complain when a site has nonfree JavaScript code, especially if it won’t work without that code. LibreJS makes it easy to complain by heuristically finding where to send the complaint.
When nonfree/nontrivial code is detected in a page, LibreJS attempts to find a relevant contact link or email for the website you are visiting. In order to do so, it will attempt to visit a few links from the current page (for instance, a link labeled “contact” on the same domain as the current page, …)
LibreJS detects contact pages, email addresses that are likely to be owned by the maintainer of the site, Twitter and identi.ca links, and phone numbers.
When you complain to the website for their nonfree nontrivial JavaScript, provide them with the link to the JavaScript Trap essay so that they can get more information on what the issue is and how they can solve it on their own site.
LibreJS includes a default subject line and body for the complaint email, with a link to the JavaScript Trap essay. This can be configured in the LibreJS add-on preferences in your web browser.
You can manage LibreJS’s preferences either from the extension’s entry in your
browser’s Add-ons Manager page (about:addons) or by clicking the LibreJS
toolbar icon and then the "Settings..." button on the top right of the popup.
This will open a panel containing a whitelist/blacklist manager and a section
to configure your complaints messages to site owners.
LibreJS lets you whitelist or blacklist domain names and subdomains, to bypass the regular JavaScript checks. This might be useful, for example, if you are running your own code in a local web server, or if you don’t want to waste computing resources on script origins you already know you can’t trust. librejs provides a lists manager UI to handle both the lists on the top of its Options panel.
Configure the default subject used in complaint emails.
Configure the default body used in complaint emails.
LibreJS considers a very strict subset of JavaScript to be acceptable for use in non-free scripts. This is meant to maximimize compatibility with websites that haven’t tried to be LibreJS compatible.
We consider modification of the document non-trivial. There isn’t much that javascript could do that we would consider trivial, for anything else a free software license would be required.
The criterion is as follows:
For each function definition:
For the rest of the script, outside of function definitions:
"function" means anything executable that gets a name, including methods.
Allowed primitives exclude:
The machine readable format for license declarations that LibreJS uses has changed in the most recent version. This was necessary in order to not break the asynchronous JS loading model that browsers use. Scripts are now evaluated independent of eachother and strictly as they arrive.
The first step is releasing your JavaScript under a free license. If you are already using a free library, or you’re not using any third-party libraries, it might only take a few minutes.
On your website, take a look at your HTML source. You can identify distinct pieces of JavaScript that might be free and some other that are nonfree.
This might be the case with an analytics tracker, social media widgets, and code that runs ads. Removing these pieces of code from your site is required to have the rest accepted as free. There are often alternatives to nonfree libraries or to third-party services:
LibreJS will allow non-trivial scripts to run as long as they use a free license.
In order for the license of a script to be recognized by LibreJS, it must be declared using a machine-readable license format.
This format is the same for both remote in-line scripts.
"// @license [magnet link] [identifier]" [Script here] "// @license-end"
"Identifier" is a name of a license from the following list and the
magnet link in the canonicalUrl field is that license’s exact
corresponding magnet link.
The following json object which can be found in
./common/license_definitions.json file in the LibreJS code shows
all the licensees recognised by LibreJS.
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If you are using a free license that isn’t detected by LibreJS and isn’t listed in the previous section, please send a message to bug-librejs@gnu.org regarding this license, where code released under this license can be found, and where to find the license text and information.
Many free licenses are listed in this page: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
Service workers may cause false positives and false negatives, and
there are multiple ways to disable them. The cleanest way is by
setting dom.serviceWorkers.enabled to false in the
about:config page of your browser.
LibreJS 7.21 depends on a number of Node.js-based libraries that
can be installed using the npm utility:
$ npm install acorn@"<=8.7.1" jssha browserify $ export PATH=$PATH:./node_modules/.bin
To build the extension run:
$ browserify main_background.js -o bundle.js
To build the extension plus create a .xpi package run:
$ ./build.sh
To build the extension including the automated test suite (see TEST below) run:
$ ./build.sh -t
or
$ ./build.sh --test
Note: this build.sh script relies on no new source files being created.
To debug LibreJS, visit the special URL about:debugging. Click
on ‘Enable add-on debugging‘ then ‘Load Temporary Add-on‘. Navigate
to LibreJS’s unpacked source directory and select manifest.json.
Lines 39 and 40 in main_background.js assign two variables
controlling the verbosity of dbg_print() statements. Make sure
these are set to false before building a release.
An automated test suite runs automatically in its own tab whenever the
extension is loaded as a "Temporary add-on" from
about:debugging. Otherwise (if included in the xpi) it can be
launched from the UI by clicking the "Automated self test..." button.
To launch the test suite from the command line, ensure the xpi package has been built with automated test suite. Then install selenium-webdriver and geckodriver, and ensure the latter is in $PATH:
$ npm install selenium-webdriver geckodriver $ export PATH=$PATH:./node_modules/.bin
Now you can invoke the test with
$ node ./utilities/test.js
which will print out a summary of test results.
Optionally you can also test with a chosen seed
$ node ./utilities/test.js 12345
To check whether a webpage is LibreJS-compliant from the command line, ensure that the xpi package has been built WITHOUT the automated test suite. Then install selenium-webdriver and geckodriver, and ensure the latter is in $PATH:
$ npm install selenium-webdriver $ npm install geckodriver $ export PATH=$PATH:./node_modules/.bin
Now you can check a webpage for compliance with
$ node ./utilities/compliance.js <url>
It will open the url in a headless browser, save a screenshot, and output the compliance check result.
For example, to check the compliance of the FSF homepage, do
$ node ./utilities/compliance.js https://fsf.org
The script index.js in ./utilities/hash_script generates the default whitelist. Run it with the following command:
node index.js > output
Then, just copy the contents of the file "output" to the appropriate place in main_background.js.
You will need one of the many flavors of the Mozilla browser to use LibreJS. It can be installed on the following:
GNU IceCat, Mozilla Firefox, Trisquel Abrowser, Debian Iceweasel.
LibreJS works on these browsers starting from version 60. We recommend that you use the latest version of your Mozilla browser. LibreJS has been tested on a GNU/Linux distribution, but it is compatible any operating system as long as you’re using a compatible Mozilla browser.
LibreJS intercepts HTTP responses and rewrites their contents after analyzing JavaScript within them. It does not remove script nodes and attributes from the page, but instead “deactivates” them by replacing their content with a commented notice.
LibreJS detects the most common cases using the HTTP response method described above, but in less common edge cases, or when running code locally, LibreJS cannot detect JavaScript during the response stage.
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