Hide Images per Tab
Hide/show images, plugins and videos. Configurable per tab.
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-16 | Tea3044 | | |
| 2022-08-12 | Firefox user 16002552 | | |
| 2021-08-20 | Firefox user 5857776 | | This a great Add-ON for me, which free my screen with too much pics or videos web. |
| 2020-03-16 | Joshua Shi | | |
| 2020-01-02 | saifullin | | Work well on new fox. It's possable save the net traffic and RAM reqest. Салют нищебродам=)) |
| 2019-02-14 | Firefox user 14634379 | | |
| 2018-12-04 | PERCE-NEIGE | | Please, make the buttons more intuitive. I spend a few minutes to try to understand which button to click. |
| 2018-10-20 | Dan Harkless | | Although there are at least 4 image-toggling WebExtensions out there — Hide Images, Hide Images (Opacity), Image Block, and this one — Hide Images per Tab seems to be the only one that keeps track of image hiding state per tab, so I guess it'd be wrong to go below 4 stars in my rating. However, it took way more experimentation than it should have to determine that it was working properly, as I'll detail below. First off, it's kind of amazing that there's no documentation anywhere as to what the different button images mean. I thought the thing in the middle of the button was supposed to be a fish, and was meant to represent a generic image (or video). I was thinking that red fish + red frame meant hide images/videos and placeholders, red fish + blue frame meant hide images/videos but retain placeholders, and I wasn't sure about blue fish + red frame, but my best guess was that it meant disable CSS padding / spacing around images and videos. In playing around with the different button states, of course, it didn't behave as per my guess, and the fish color seemed to do nothing. Finally I tried the add-on on a page with a video on it, and realized the "fish" is supposed to be a movie camera (really doesn't look much like one), and that the frame color indicates image hiding state, while the camera color indicates video hiding state. It confused me at first that when you change the state of the global button, it doesn't affect the current tab, and at first I thought the global button was nonfunctional. Upon reflection, though, I guess it is a bit more flexible to have it not affect the current tab, and require users to set that separately with the URL bar button. For awhile I was thinking both the global button _and_ the URL bar button were broken, because I was doing my initial testing on addons.mozilla.org, where indeed, neither button has any effect. Page Saver WE also irritatingly can't save addons.mozilla.org pages (a limitation that didn't appear with classic extensions Mozilla Archive Format or MozArchiver), so the Mozilla developers may be enforcing some unnecessarily heavy-handed security restrictions for pages on the site that they didn't used to. This should be documented in "About this extension", however, so users don't think during their initial testing that it's broken, and prematurely give up on it. Since this add-on was last updated almost a year ago, I'm betting some or all of the reviews made since then saying it doesn't work at all are from people who tried to test it out on addons.mozilla.org. Interestingly, in Tor Browser, this add-on and its 3 above-mentioned "competitors" are able to hide images even on addons.mozilla.org. [Update, 2018-10-23:] I figured out why extensions work on addons.mozilla.org when using Tor Browser. It's actually possible to get them working on Firefox as well, by making a couple of (hidden!) about:config settings to match Tor Browser's configuration. Peter, in updating your "About this extension" description, I'd recommend adding a link to https://www.ghacks.net/2017/10/27/how-to-enable-firefox-webextensions-on-mozilla-websites/ so people will know that your extension won't work on addons.mozilla.org unless they set extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains and privacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManager as described in that article. After I made those changes, Hide Images per Tab and other extensions are now working for me on addons.mozilla.org using Firefox 63.0. (Unfortunately Save Page WE still doesn't work, since the developer evidently didn't know about this workaround, and put in a redundant manual check for the prohibited domains to decide whether to disable the button, which is enabled when the page first loads, and display "a cannot be used with this page" tooltip.) One more issue with the global button is that there's a "Hide" / "Sho" (really, no room for a 'w'?) badge that almost completely covers the fish– er, camera. That makes it essentially impossible to determine whether video hiding is on or off without just redundantly redoing the desired setting. There isn't even a highlighted frame on the button popup panel corresponding to the current mode, as there should be. There at least ought to be an option to disable the Hide/Sho badge, like, for instance, JavaScript Toggle On and Off has. For people who _do_ want the badge, it should be redesigned to not cover the camera icon. And it shouldn't be red in Sho mode. Red in UIs is intended to be used as a warning color; my eye gets unnecessarily drawn to the "Sho" when Sho is the normal mode. It should be blue or green when in Sho mode. Personally, I'm coming to Hide Images per Tab and JavaScript Toggle On and Off from being a long-time user of the QuickJava addon on pre-Quantum Firefox, and I really prefer its approach of using letters rather than potentially inscrutable icons. If it were me, I'd change the confusing fish/camera + frame buttons to be "I: Y" on top of "V: Y", where "I" is of course images, "V" is videos, and "Y" means yes, display. The "Y"s would change to "N"s when not displaying either or both of them. I'd make the "I:" and "V:" black, "Y" green, and "N" red. Alternatively, it'd be less busy to just have an "I" (in a serif font, for clarity) on top of a "V", and color their backgrounds green (or blue) vs. red depending on each of their states. Lastly, I really wish the button panes would dismiss themselves after you make a selection, rather than having to manually click somewhere else to get rid of them. |
| 2018-10-12 | Firefox user 14348739 | | So far the only addon that didn't just hide the image but also hides the space the image takes. The point is if I go to some website and I just want to get to the content without having to scroll past multiple enormous images embedded throughout the article, this addon is super useful. |
| 2018-08-23 | Firefox user 14239778 | |
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