159818 - New Feature: Filters for Web Documents

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 86504

(Core :: Layout, enhancement)

Description

[simon lewis]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020615
Debian/1.0.0-3
BuildID:    20020728

I think a great addition to Mozilla would be the ability to write filters for
the web document content that the browser is loading. Similar  to being able to
turn off aspects of javascript... whwere the browser wont load that code.

The filter would allow users to not view certian types of content they choose to
filter out. A few examples: I dont like the lycos bar atop the wired dot page,
so i would filter that out. Or I would filter out banner ads (this is more
effective than turning off JS b/s that inhibits viewing certian pages), filter
out porn etc.

The idea is the same as mail filters but for web based docs (html, js, java
etc). Althought it would probably be used for html/JS more often...

I have this idea that a new community would be created with people trading and
creating new filters for people to be using... ahh how glorious *grin*

Also I can't code a lick or I would have attempted to build a patch of some
sort. But if anyone has feed back on this or maybe would want to start a
project? let me know.

thanks moz-dev team!

Reproducible: Didn't try

Actual Results:  null

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Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86504 ***

Comment 2

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

If you want to do some work on this yourself, reporter, check out www.mozdev.org.