The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

Trying to trim down excessive CPU usage of my web browsers, and lessen the risk of intrusion, I experimented with globally disabling JavaScript and only enabling it on sites where it adds value to me.

That is possible (see below), but immediately showed a big side effect: Bookmarklets will not work on sites that have JavaScript disabled.

Disabling JavaScript globally only allows Bookmarklets on sites where you have enabled JavaScript. Not the situation I hoped for (:

I’ll try it for a while though.

More information:

• [Wayback/Archive] chrome turn of javascript except for certain sites – Google Search
  • [Wayback/Archive] How to Enable or Disable JavaScript in a Browser
  • [Wayback/A] browser – Temporarily disable Javascript for inactive Chrome tabs (except for whitelisted urls) – until active again? – Super User (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Luke Stanley and [Wayback/Archive] Thomas)
    

    Q

    I often am researching stuff, and need lots of tabs open but Chrome can get very slow. I notice that often memory seems to be increasing for chrome processes – even ones I am not interacting with. I suspect this is because of Javascript.

    Is there a way to temporarily disable Javascript or other resources for Chrome tabs I am not using, except for a whitelist of sites like GMail, and Facebook? (Some sites are webapps doing background tasks I find useful – like waiting for instant messages.)

    A

    There is no way Google Chrome will automatically figure which tabs are active and disable javascript for the inactive ones. Not yet anyway.

• [Wayback/Archive] run bookmarklet when javascript is disabled – Google Search
  • [Wayback/Archive] How to create a bookmarklet in Firefox with javascript disabled? – Super User (thanks [Wayback/Archive] EZM and [Wayback/Archive] Robert)
    

    Q

    I’ve this bookmarklet in Firefox:

    javascript:void(location.href='https://example.com/url='+document.location.href)
    

    It works when I’ve enabled javascript for the actual webpage (the url which I want to send to example.com). My problem is I want to use it with NoScript disabling javascript for everything except for example.com. Obviously, the bookmarklet doesn’t work with javascript disabled.

    I would like to know if there is any alternative to create a bookmarklet which works with javascript disabled.

    A

    Sadly (?) with javascript disabled you cannot execute javascript bookmarklets. Also any “regular” bookmark cannot get a hold of the current url.

    …

    I think the most unobtrusive solution would be to use a (smart) keyword bookmark. In bookmarks you can use %s as a placeholder and assign a keyword to it. Usually this makes it possible to add custom search functionality into the location bar.

    …

--jeroen