irrelon / disable-javascript

Adds the ability to disable JavaScript on specific sites.

Disable JavaScript has been discontinued!

As you might have noticed (no updates for a long time), unfortunately I didn't have sufficient time to further develop this web extension. While the development of this web extension was exciting, there were very little donations and also some questionable reviews about the web extension.

As Manifest V2 is getting deprecated soon, I decided to end this journey for now and handed over the ownership of the extension on Chrome and Firefox to another party. While I can't say if the code will continue to stay public, I want to point out that I'm not the maintainer anymore and that versions after 2.3.1 won't reflect the source code of this repository.

Thanks everyone who supported this project by writing genuine reviews, donating or simply creating pull requests.

Disable JavaScript

This web extension lets a user decide if JavaScript should be enabled or disabled for a given host or a given tab.

When accessing e.g. google.com and disabling JavaScript, the web extension will block all JavaScript which otherwise would be loaded by google.com (including inline JS and external JS files from other hosts).

Please note that scripts from the blocked host will still be loaded if they're being loaded in another host (unless you block that host as well of course).

Supported browsers

• Mozilla Firefox (Desktop & Firefox for Android)
• Google Chrome (Desktop)

Usage

Disabling and enabling JavaScript should be pretty self-explanatory.
The icons and labels update for a tab accordingly.

NOTE: On Firefox for Android, no icon will be shown but toggling is possible via a menu item.
See the Add-on page for screenshots.

Installation from source

To install the web extension directly from the source, follow this steps:

• Install Node.js and npm
• Install gulp.js (run npm install --global gulp-cli)
• Clone or download this code
• In the project's root folder: Run npm install
• In the project's root folder: Run gulp compile
• Add the web extension to your browser
  • Mozilla Firefox: Visit about:debugging and click on Load Temporary Add-on. Load then the manifest.json file in the project's root folder
  • Google Chrome: Visit chrome://extensions/ and click on Load unpacked. Choose the project's root folder
• If you simply want to test new branches/custom code without interfering with the installed version of the web extension, check out these browsers:
  • Firefox Developer Edition
  • Chrome Canary

Pushing to mobile

Make sure you have prepared your device with these instructions.
After following the previous steps, continue like this:

• In the project's root folder: Overwrite the existing manifest.json with the manifest-gecko.json file
• Connect your mobile device via USB to your composer
• In the project's root folder: Run ./push-to-mobile.sh
• In Firefox in your mobile device: Access file:///storage/emulated/0 and select the [email protected] file

Contribution guidelines

If you want to contribute in any way or simply report bugs, please have a look at the contribution guidelines first.
Thank you!

Future plans

Feature proposals are being added as issues on GitHub.
If you want something to be added, create an issue or upvote an existing one.

Other web extensions

• View Page Source (Mobile)

Maintainer

• David Pacassi Torrico (Web extension implementation, maintenance, support)

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 David Pacassi Torrico

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