152047 - [RFE] don't load any images while viewing specified websites

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Graphics: Image Blocking, enhancement)

Description

[Bobby T]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314
Netscape6/6.2.2
BuildID:    2002053012

It would be nice to see a feature that would disable the loading of images for
specified websites.  (Not just block images on a server-by-server basis as you
have now).  An example of how it would work:  If I were to add 'slashdot.org' to
the list, then that website should come up and load as text only.  The only way
I can do this now is if I disable images on a global scale but that's rather
useless since most websites need 'load images' turned on.  It would be a great
feature, people could fly through their regular news websites and search engines
quickly without graphics.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

what's the difference between a host and a server?

I think what you want is bug 78104: "[RFE] Pattern-matching based image blocking"

Comment 2

[Bobby T]

no. that topic is "block all images originating from a GIVEN serverr"  A website
may serve images from several different domains. 

The option I'm requesting is "Load these specific websites as text only"

Go to edit/pref/security&privacy/images
Click "do not load any images"
This is the effect I'm going for but only on a list specified webpages.
Text only. No graphics from any sources.  If I started blocking images on a
server basis, or pattern basis, I may have to block up to 10 different hosts/ips
to get one webpage to show up as just text.  Plus, if i want an image off one of
those blocked hosts/ips on another website I can't download it.

Comment 3

[Krishna E. Bera]

How is this different from the the feature in 1.1a where you can right-click on
an image and tell it to "block images from this server"?  The server is stored
in the image blocking list as a domain name rather than as an ip address, so it
does what you want, no?

Comment 4

[Bobby T]

what i'm talking about is a text only mode for specified webpages to make the
webpage *completely* image free. not blocking images from a block list.

If i load up a news site like wired.com I'd have to right-click/block images on
wired.com, ads.wired.com, doubleclick.net and who knows what other hosts to that
one site to show up completely image free.

What I'm suggesting is a 'text only site' list where you'd add 'www.wired.com'
to and when you go to www.wired.com it's viewed as a 'text only' site.  Just
like as if you went to turn on "do not load any images" under
edit/pref/security&privacy/images. only rather than working on the global scale
of showing all websites as text only, my suggested idea would just show the
listed sites as text only.  The image blocking feature mozilla has now is nice
to block just banners and other misc annoying images but if you want all
graphics from a webpage gone (for speed's sake) you may have to block several
hosts before a single website shows up as text only. or have to turn off images
all together. 

Mozilla could handle this is by ignoring all the the image tags on the websites
listed in a 'text only website' list.

Perhaps I'm doing a bad job of explaining the feature i'm trying to request.
Anyone else care to clarify my insane rambling?

Comment 5

[Dave]

No, I get you.  I guess the closest current workaround is to disable image
loading completely while visiting a website.
I'm not sure this RFE won't be wontfixed eventually, but who knows?  The
quickest way to get it done would be to implement it yourself.  :)

Comment 6

[Gabe Kangas]

Since this is going to the "adblocking" type of discussion again... the idea is 
to disable any IMG tags when loading certain pages.  

The idea is to:
*right click*
*chose "disable all images on this page*

It'll add that url to a list to never load any images, regardless of the host 
they are coming from, again when viewing that web page.  Of course regex-based 
lists could be implimented.. but instead of pattern matching the img urls, it's 
the html page url.  As much as this borders somewhat on the ad blocking 
discussions it's for the sake of loading web pages faster when all you want is 
text by disabling all graphics on a page, not to view certain unwanted graphics.

Comment 7

[Mitchell Stoltz (not reading bugmail)]

Mass reassigning of Image manager bugs to [e-mail], and futuring.
Most of these bugs are enhancement requests or are otherwise low priority at
this time.

Comment 8

[Mitchell Stoltz (not reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 197199 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Marc Mongenet]

This enhancement would be a "View text only" that is remembered.
Netscape Navigator 4 has a "Automatically load images" advanced
pref that is not far from the requested enhancement.

Comment 10

[Ian Molloy]

Images from the URL http://www.oracle.com/index.html are not displayed. In the
top left hand corner in red letters you should see the word 'Oracle' among other
images.
BuildID: 2004091804.

Comment 11

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

This does not have wide enough use cases to implement as a built-in feature.