It is no news that firefox made an update to their desktop browser few months ago and the new versions (from version 23) had some previously visible options omitted.
One of the major functionalities that were disabled and remained a matter of concern are the options to Disable Javascript and also Turn off images. There are a couple of reasons why you might want to turn off your javascript or images such as poor load time due to slow internet speed etc.
After a whole lot of search through the menu options of the web browser program, I finally gave up searching the menus and I had to look for a work around to fixing this. Guess what, I definitely came up with one.
Disabling JavaScript and Images in Firefox wasn’t actually removed completely but was hidden and removed from the regular user interface. If you know the about:config options, you can find your way through it.
How To Turn Off Images In Firefox Browser 23, 24 +
1. In your address bar, type in the word about:config and hit the Enter button.
2. You’ll land on a page with lots of option in a tabular form. It has numerous rows and four columns of Prefrence Name, Status, Type and Value. In the search box above the table, type in permissions.default.image . The first row that shows up is what we need to edit in order to disable images.
3. In the permissions.default.image row, the column with title as value has 1. Double click on one and dialogue box would pop up for you to make an entry, change the number 1 to 2 and hit OK.
4. Hurray, your images would be disabled. To enable your images again, follow the same procedure as above, but change the value from 2 back to 1.
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How To Disable Javascript In Firefox Browser 23, 24 +
1. Following the same method as for images, type about:config and hit the Enter button.
2. In the search box provided above the table, type in javascript.enabled and the very first row is what we have to edit. In the value row, you’ll see true. Double click on true to change it to False.
3. As long as the row remains in False, your javascript would be disabled. You can change it back to normal by double clicking to display true.
There are addons that can help you achieve this, but since we could alter these options manually, I guess that was the reason I never searched for them.
Feel free to ask any questions if need be and remember to share this tutorial with your friends.
27 Comments
Very useful tutorial.Thanks for sharing this.Much appreciated.
Thanks for coming by. 🙂
thanks for the info
You are welcome Larry. I appreciate your comment.
Hi Oscar,
That was an interesting info but with me, there is no way I intend turning off images on my Firefox. Firefox is the best among all browsers!!
Thanks for dropping by Emma, do have a great day. 🙂
Sincerely I find it really annoying that people will disable Javascript on their web browsers…..as a web developer this drives me nuts cos most of the stuffs that web developers all over the world develop does rely on javascript.
Sincerely disabling javascript on your browser would only impoverish your experience on the web.
Sure Agi,
Most web stuff rely on javascripts, but there are cases when you might want to disable them either to copy stuff from where right click is disabled and lots more. I hope you do understand my point.
really nice i’m really luvin this, this has been a problem to me since I downloaded that version of firefox, thanks once again.
Hi Alice,
It’s really great to know this helped you. Thanks for letting us know and do have a splendid day ahead.
Turning off the image on Firefox would surely help save data but the surfing wouldnt be very interesting without all the intriguing photos.
Thanks for posting this…I really appreciate!
Cheers!
Sure Charlse. But there are situations you would find this useful.Thanks for dropping by.
For slow internet connections , disabling javascript and images can be helpful as it can improve the speed of internet . To accomplish this , you shared a good tutorial . Thanks for sharing the tutorial with us.
Thanks for commenting Pramod and do have a great day ahead.
Now, how on earth did you discover such? I guess you did a whole lot of research. Nice post bro.
Thanks for finding time to read through. I’ve been on the net for quite sometime now and love doing amazing tech things, and that’s the passion that drove me through making this research and discovery.
Thanks for your compliment.
Oscar The III… Ure wonderful imagine i have been looking for something very cool like this.
Firefox just keep sucking My Cost MB!! 9ja Networks Tinz ^_^
Thanks A lot Dude. Thumbs Up!
You are very much welcome and thanks for your time.
As a developer, I am beginning to get more pissed off at FireFox than at Microsoft.
That’s really funny anyway. I guess you are stuck to Chrome, right?
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Hello Oscar,
Usefull information I guess,but it didn’t work for me somehow. Yes those surveys don’t show up, that’s great. But when I click the download button nothing happens, so I can’t get needed file anyways. :/
Well done bro
Thumbs up. Been looking for this a long while ago. Thanks bro
great work, perfectly working for, love your tricks, thanks very muc
Thanks Lekan. I’m glad it did work for you.