[Cialug] deep STOP

[Tom Pohl]

If you use Firefox, I recommend a plugin called no-script and completely disable javascript on that site/page

Thanks!
-Tom

On Oct 27, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Kenneth Younger wrote:

> Yes this works when I want it to be browser wide, but there are times where I just want it to be site-wide, or more conveniently, ad-hoc.
> 
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:03 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> At 03:59 PM 10/27/2010, you wrote:
> >So, I run into this issue frequently, as I have my computer tethered
> >to my phone - in a location I really only get about dialup speeds.
> >
> >There are times when I visit a site, and want to read the content,
> >but could care less about pictures or other crap loading - so I hit
> >ESC or the stop button on the browser. And most of the time this suffices.
> >
> >However, I've noticed that if there are any other requests made from
> >the page with AJAX, then the stop doesn't work. This is particularly
> >noticeable in Google Reader when opening an item that has like 40
> >images, and then moving to another feed to read other items, the 40
> >images are still trying to load. I can't use the stop button or esc
> >to stop these from loading because GReader dynamically renders this
> >content, and the main "page" has already loaded. As far as I can
> >tell the only way to fix this is to close that tab and reload, which
> >is a huge PITA.
> >
> >Can anyone think of a good solution to this?
> 
> What about turning off  'Load Images Automatically'?
> 
>         Lee
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