Question

I would like to stop images from loading, as in not even get a chance to download, using greasemonkey. Right now I have

var images = document.getElementsByTagName('img');  for (var i=0; i<images.length; i++){     images[i].src = ''; } 

but I don’t think this actually stops the images from downloading. Anyone know how to stop the images from loading?

Thanks for your time and help 🙂

Answer 1

Almost all images are not downloaded. So your script almost working as is.

I’ve tested the following script:

// ==UserScript== // @name           stop downloading images // @namespace      http://stackoverflow.com/questions/387388 // @include        http://flickr.com/* // ==/UserScript==  var images = document.getElementsByTagName('img'); for (var n = images.length; n--> 0;) {   var img = images[n];   img.setAttribute('src', ''); } 

Use a dedicated extension to manage images (something like ImgLikeOpera).

If you’d like to filter images on all browser then a proxy with filtering capabilities might help e.g., Privoxy.