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Very bare walkthrough for first time users

gorhill edited this page Nov 4, 2014 · 17 revisions

Images are way easier than wall of texts to explain how µMatrix works. So let's visit wired.com.

When you first visit wired.com, open the matrix:

Global scope

The top-most left-most cell is the scope.

All rules in µMatrix apply to a specific scope. Above in the picture, the * is selected. The * is the global scope. The global scope contains rules which applies everywhere, on every page you visit.

Since µMatrix works in block-all/allow-exceptionally out of the box, pretty much everything is blocked in the global scope, except for CSS-related resources and images.

let's switch scope to wired.com: click the scope cell, and select wired.com. The matrix looks different now:

wired.com scope