Question

On a page that I visit, it has a slow-loading external script that occasionally takes so long that the page is basically unusable. Disabling this script entirely removes some functionality, but it’s better than nothing.

Is there a way I could use greasemonkey to cancel the script? I know I could use NoScript, but I wanted to give it a chance (with a JS timeout).

I kind of doubt it (since Greasemonkey doesn’t even seem to run scripts until the page has finished loading), but I wanted to check to be sure

Answer 1

Is that script located at a different domain (that’s not used by (almost) anything else)?

If so, you can block access to it by changing your hosts file; e.g., see http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/