A way to turn off pop-ups?
- Thread starter ron.alan
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Well, it's not an ad so it wouldn't be blocked.
Brickwizard
Well-Known Member
it's part of the application that runs the site, similar to having a preview button
It's probably loaded with JavaScript, so you could try blocking scripts. I'm not sure what other functionality would break along with it, but it might block it. (It'll likely break something else.)
You can disable JavaScript text popups in Firefox by using an extension or adjusting the browser settings. Here are a couple of methods:
Method 1: Using an Extension
Install an Extension: You can use extensions like NoScript or uBlock Origin to block JavaScript on specific websites.
Configure the Extension: After installing, configure the extension to block JavaScript on the sites where you don’t want popups.
Method 2: Adjusting Browser Settings
Open Firefox Settings:
Click on the menu button (three horizontal lines) in the top-right corner.
Select Settings.
Access Advanced Preferences:
Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter.
Click Accept the Risk and Continue.
Disable JavaScript:
Search for javascript.enabled.
Double-click the preference to set it to false.
Disabling JavaScript might affect the functionality of some websites, it will definitely break some sites.
Method 1: Using an Extension
Install an Extension: You can use extensions like NoScript or uBlock Origin to block JavaScript on specific websites.
Configure the Extension: After installing, configure the extension to block JavaScript on the sites where you don’t want popups.
Method 2: Adjusting Browser Settings
Open Firefox Settings:
Click on the menu button (three horizontal lines) in the top-right corner.
Select Settings.
Access Advanced Preferences:
Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter.
Click Accept the Risk and Continue.
Disable JavaScript:
Search for javascript.enabled.
Double-click the preference to set it to false.
Disabling JavaScript might affect the functionality of some websites, it will definitely break some sites.
Condobloke
Well-Known Member
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""When hovering over a link to a thread a pop-up appears""
.....the simplest approach might be to stop hovering...?
According to CoPilot.
From CoPilot:
I can provide a pretty accurate estimate! As of August 2024, approximately 98.9% of websites use JavaScript as a client-side programming language
Is there any way to selectively block or "turn off" various bits of javascript functionality? For instance, to let javascript run but globally disable the "onmouseover" event for all objects?
I feel like java script programmers are driven to throw in as much whiz-bang as they can cram onto a web page and they all to often make it mostly or completely unusable...
Usually, the bookmarks bar is at the top of the browser window, so you open a page. You want to click on something near the bottom of the page, or maybe just follow along with the cursor as you read. But there's a menu at the top of the page, extending the entire width of the page and when the mouse crosses it on the way down, a submenu, or some other baloney pops up obscuring what you were trying to read. Apparently, nobody actually -does- usability testing any more!
As a user I usually don't want anything on a page to move or change at all until I click on something.
Sometimes. It depends on if it's loading multiple libraries from multiple sources. If it is all one big library from one source, you really can only block that.
Use Lynx to browse the website 
Code:
lynx : A text-based Web browser
CaffeineAddict
Well-Known Member
I was really hoping to block individual features in the javascript engine itself. Not to block javascript entirely and not to somehow filter the javascript code coming in in web pages - just to stub out certain functions in the js engine so they silently do nothing.
That's not a realistic hope, I'm afraid.
With a lot of work, you could probably load custom libraries instead of the libraries the site wants to load. I've never heard of anyone doing so. It would not be easy but it'd be slightly easier with remote libraries.
I sort of suspected that would be the case. It was a nice fantasy.
Rather than write their own code, a lot of sites use online libraries and load the JavaScript remotely from a CDN. In theory, you could redirect the loading URL and shim in your own library. Then you could edit that library to do what you want.
I don't see that as realistic. You'd have to learn JavaScript just to get started.
