38392 - hide bg & fg images and document colorurs view options

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 38521

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Paul LeBeau]

To counter the effects of bad image and colour schemes on some
web pages, and make them quickly viewable, a useful facility
would be the ability to quickly hide bg and fg images and to
'neutralise' (for want of a better word) the font and other
colours in the current document.

This has proved very useful on occasion in another browser I
use (Acorn Browse).  It has the following menu options:

   Use documents colours
   Show foreground images
   Show background images

All of which are enabled by default.

Any new pages viewed (ie links followed) within the current
window would inherit the state of these options.  This assumes
that other pages on the site would be equally afflicted. ;)

Another possible option that would seem appropriate would be
a corresponding option for sounds.

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

In 4.x, `Always use my colors, overriding document' did exactly what you 
describe, and I assume the same will be true of Mozilla.

So, paul, is your request for:
* making it more clear in the prefs dialog that `Always use my colors' ignores
  custom background images, as well as custom background colors; or
* providing a method of turning such things on/off which is quicker than going
  into the prefs dialog?

Comment 2

[Paul LeBeau]

No sign of it yet in the Moz prefs.. will it appear in the future?

There is a font override option in the fonts section and a don't-download-
images option elsewhere, but this is not the same thing.

Re Matthew's question: I'm suggesting the latter option - a quick way
to either:

(a) disable all embedded style (including backgrounds), or
(b) the option to disable selected ones as I suggested in the original
    submission.

My preference would be for the latter.

Of the three options I mentioned, the 'use document colours' and the
'bg images' options were (obviously) the most useful for making a bad
page readable.  In that browser the 'foreground images' option did
double duty as the equivalent to the traditional 'show images'
preference.

I'm talking about a quick fix that can be turned on and off quickly for
the odd page - currently I tend to go elsewhere rather than bother to
wade through the prefs.

I guess we're talking about readability options in the same vein as the
existing text size options in the View menu.

Comment 3

[Brendan Donohoe]

Interesting idea and one worth thinking about.  It's probably outside the scope
of the current release, though, so I'm marking this "future" for reconsideration
later.

Comment 4

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Paul, would bug 38521 do what you're looking for here?

Comment 5

[Paul LeBeau]

Yes it is, pretty much.  So I've taken the liberty of marking this
as a duplicate of that one.  I'll add some comments to 38521 to
cover the slight differences to what I was suggesting here.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 38521 ***

Comment 6

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Verified dup.