firefox - Disable/hide graphic/interface elements of a web site
2014-07
Is there a way, for instance a Firefox/Chrome plugin, to hide, or even better 'disable' any graphic/design of a website in order to have a simplified, only 'plain text' version of it?
This could be useful to spare bandwidth, since it would be not necessary any more do down-load all the images and so on...
It sounds like you might want to use a text-mode browser.
The obvious one is Lynx
Here are some ways to conserve bandwidth:
- Use Google Mobilizer via a bookmarklet or configure it to run a URL with a keyword from the browser's address bar to see just the textual content.
- Use mobile version of popular websites for minimalistic & lighter pages
- Readability browser add-ons can help you get clutter-free web pages
- Block images/image ads originating from a specific domain easily in Firefox as well as IFrame ads to cut down on bandwidth consumed.
Well, pretty much my question is the title. I use Google Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, and Internet Explorer 8 and was wondering how I could disable the automatic cursor placement when accessing different websites. I'm still a bit faster than all the browsers when typing in my usernames and passwords (which is really the reason why I'm asking) and it never fails that
I'll see my username enter in fine, then a couple of characters from my password, then my cursor will jump back up to the username field and plug in half of my password there and fail to login of course after I hit the enter key. Mind you, I'm usually typing in the user/pass and hitting enter afterwards fairly quick, so its not like I'm meaning to do this.
Also, it would help whenever I open up my home page (which is google) and want to type in a new url. Even google has it where the cursor will automatically jump to the search box after a few seconds, so I'll end up searching google for half of the url I was trying to type in the address bar.
I searched on google and here for a solution already, but didn't see an apparent one in the first couple of pages, so any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Justin
Here is the solution for Firefox:
Type the following into the Firefox address bar:
about:config
Right-click on any value and select
New > String
You will first be prompted for the preference name. Enter the following:
capability.policy.default.HTMLInputElement.focus
Next, you will be prompted for the preference value. Enter the following:
noAccess
That's it!
If you're not happy with the change, undoing it is a little more complicated:
Close Firefox if it's open by going into the
File
menu and choosingExit
.Locate your Application Data folder. The easiest way to do this is to go to the Start menu, choose Run, and type in "
%APPDATA%
" (without the quotes.)Navigate to your profile folder. It should be in
Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/_____.default
, where the underscore is a string of random characters. Find the file calledprefs.js
and open it in a text editor, such as Notepad. (Do not just double-click it. You should be able to right-click it and chooseEdit
from the context menu.)Search for the line that contains
capability.policy.default.HTMLInputElement.focus
. It will look like this in its entirety:user_pref("capability.policy.default.HTMLInputElement.focus", "noAccess");
Delete this line, and only this line. Save the file. You may now restart Firefox.
When the page is loaded, or even half-loaded, and you're ready to go, hit Esc or stop the browser from loading the rest of the page.
The behaviour you're seeing when you type in one input and then it jumps to another is because the JavaScript has finished loading and carrying out it's little focus script.
The JavaScript loaded with the pages is setting the focus on an element and often disregards how much you've typed, or if you've typed at all, before defaulting to the input field of choice.
As you even encounter this "after a few seconds" at the very light page of google.com (today 13.44 KB in total, 3 KB when cache is used), I'd search for a way to make the pages load faster. The Google home page should be on your screen instantly.
I assume you did not disable caching? Do you have a lot of add-ons installed? Maybe some hyperactive virus scanner? Or some malware that needs time to spy on you?
If it's the internet connection: maybe your provider has some caching proxy server for you?
Or, if the computer is slow: disable Google Analytics and other tracking scripts by installing Adblock Plus.
(Just to avoid your password is shown in the username field: use a password manager rather than typing the credentials yourself.)
For Firefox,install the Greasemonkey addon then the user script called "Unfocuser". Worked for me.