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I'm going to ask again if someone would PLEASE give this a try and tell me what you think. Just 15 minutes, no more, just so we can get an unbiased opinion (ie

I'm going to ask again if someone would PLEASE give this a try and tell me what you think. Just 15 minutes, no more, just so we can get an unbiased opinion (ie not mine). If it turns out to be tolerable then you've got a trivially easy way of cutting carbon use, a little. thanks

stuaxo 6y ago
The BBC page didn't seem to load at all, clicking the link above. BBC is a bad choice as they don't have traditional ads, just ones for their own content. Another note: the preference to disable JS is not surfaced in Firefox unless you go to about: config, so it is a little fiddly.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
  Finally, some feedback! thanks. The link I see is https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200803-the-solar-canals-revolutionising-indias-renewable-energy https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200803-the-solar-canals... and it works fine for me. What do you see? I'm very surprised about the JS, when I used firefox (I now use palemoon) it was under preferences. Noted, thanks.
  - Baeocystin 6y ago
    Not the person you replied to, but to add to the subject, just uBlock Origin on Chrome and the page loads in a second or two, with 11 elements blocked. If I also disable Javascript(1), it loads even faster, but the difference between the two is on the order of half a second, so minimal in practice. ((1) I use the Quick Javascript Switcher extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-javascript-switcher/geddoclleiomckbhadiaipdggiiccfje https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-javascript-s... )
- throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
  Yep, they removed it "Beginning from Firefox version 23, Firefox web browser from Mozilla has removed the UI to disable and enable the JavaScript (JS) on web pages from “Content” tab of web browser’s Options menu." https://techjourney.net/disable-javascript-in-firefox/ https://techjourney.net/disable-javascript-in-firefox/

stuaxo 6y ago

The BBC page didn't seem to load at all, clicking the link above. BBC is a bad choice as they don't have traditional ads, just ones for their own content. Another note: the preference to disable JS is not surfaced in Firefox unless you go to about: config, so it is a little fiddly.

throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Finally, some feedback! thanks. The link I see is https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200803-the-solar-canals-revolutionising-indias-renewable-energy https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200803-the-solar-canals... and it works fine for me. What do you see? I'm very surprised about the JS, when I used firefox (I now use palemoon) it was under preferences. Noted, thanks.
- Baeocystin 6y ago
  Not the person you replied to, but to add to the subject, just uBlock Origin on Chrome and the page loads in a second or two, with 11 elements blocked. If I also disable Javascript(1), it loads even faster, but the difference between the two is on the order of half a second, so minimal in practice. ((1) I use the Quick Javascript Switcher extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-javascript-switcher/geddoclleiomckbhadiaipdggiiccfje https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-javascript-s... )
throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Yep, they removed it "Beginning from Firefox version 23, Firefox web browser from Mozilla has removed the UI to disable and enable the JavaScript (JS) on web pages from “Content” tab of web browser’s Options menu." https://techjourney.net/disable-javascript-in-firefox/ https://techjourney.net/disable-javascript-in-firefox/