Text Only browser?

[macsplusmacs]

Is there an extension or plug-in for safari that will allow me to block all images and videos?

Needs to work with youtube.

I tried dev mode and I can block images, but not videos on youtube, sadly.

Downloaded Lynx, and it runs in the terminal so. nope.

1st choice: safari extension
2nd: stand-alone browser
3rd: firefox
4th: chrome

thanks for any help!

 

[velocityg4]

Can't think of text only. But you can use script blockers in Firefox and Chrome or their forked browsers. To block a lot of stuff. You might also be able to stop images in Firefox in about:confg. But I've never tried that.

 

[macsplusmacs]

thank you.

The more i think of it, the more I love the idea of a Lynx like browser but modern and a stand alone app.

 

[macsplusmacs]

Firefox with "Image Video Block" allowed me to block everything I wanted.

 

[bogdanw]

Safari - Develop menu – Disable images & Disable JavaScript, but it might break other sites too

 

[Slartibart]

thank you.

The more i think of it, the more I love the idea of a Lynx like browser but modern and a stand alone app.

what's wrong with lynx in the terminal? I haven’t used it for a while, I mean it’s text only as it can get. 🤓

 

[macsplusmacs]

what's wrong with lynx in the terminal? I haven’t used it for a while, I mean it’s text only as it can get. 🤓

Layout? and arcane commands. it just felt strange. if I were doing more terminal work I think I would be fine with it, my needs for the above is just a quick visit to specific sites that have lots of stuff on the page.

 

[Slartibart]

Layout? and arcane commands. it just felt strange. if I were doing more terminal work I think I would be fine with it, my needs for the above is just a quick visit to specific sites that have lots of stuff on the page.

Reader mode will probably insufficient (?) - there is w3m which you can install via homebrew, and at least in Firefox you could create a separate profile and adjust everything using e.g the web developer tools -that is disable css styles, images, javascript etc. and switch to this profile when opening certain pages.

 

[ponzicoinbro]

Reader mode will probably insufficient (?) - there is w3m which you can install via homebrew, and at least in Firefox you could create a separate profile and adjust everything using e.g the web developer tools -that is disable css styles, images, javascript etc. and switch to this profile when opening certain pages.

If you disable all that many sites will simply not load because they require you to accept cookies first. Without css and JavaScript the permissions window wont appear to allow you to access the sites.

 

[Slartibart]

If you disable all that many sites will simply not load because they require you to accept cookies first. Without css and JavaScript the permissions window wont appear to allow you to access the sites.

Which is a big general design error in relation to accessibility - I actually use an extension to automatically rid of these pop-ups automatically… at least european web pages are not impacted in doing so… as well as e.g. the new york times and others. 🤓
Anyway, for testing purposes like SEO optimization or screen reader optimisation IMHO creating a dedicated profile to use with Firefox for this purpose seems sound.

 

[macsplusmacs]

My dream would be a WebKit based native mac app that had a couple of checkmarks in the menu to turn off images and anything that looked like a video.

As mentioned by

ponzicoinbro​

Turning off javascript itself is a no go for too many sites.

 

[glenthompson]

I’m still trying to wrap my head around the statement that you want to block Al, images and video but want it to work with YouTube. Haven’t used it it decades but Lynx is the way to go.

 

[macsplusmacs]

I’m still trying to wrap my head around the statement that you want to block Al, images and video but want it to work with YouTube. Haven’t used it it decades but Lynx is the way to go.

hi.

I collect a lot of cooking recipes and other forms of references on a page, and sometimes I want to refer to them in the "show more" section of the youtube page. I can do this in safari, but every time I want to come back and refer to a recipe item, I have to load the page in safari and pause the video, waiting for all the other items to load. I bounce around a lot of pages when I am collecting info and don't need all the superfluous stuff.

First world problem, I know,

I was hoping there was a browser that would just show the "skeleton" of a web page, just text, and links, so I can load up the page I am referencing and select, copy and paste text easily. I can totally do it the way I am doing it, just ran down a rabbit hole and thought someone would have built something like this already.

 

[BotchQue]

There's room here for a "cookie" pun.

 

[macsplusmacs]

There's room here for a "cookie" pun.

There is always room for cookies.

 

[maternidad]

There is always room for cookies.

The cookies look delicious; please share recipe.

 

[dockgaze]

Well there is always ‘Text Browser’ app on IOS . . . . . .

 

[bogdanw]

Minim 3.1.7.1 works in Safari 15.6
https://minim.sweetpproductions.com
Trial dmg https://sweetpproductions.com/products/minim/Minim.dmg
In the App Store https://apps.apple.com/app/id1406044470

 

[HDFan]

I collect a lot of cooking recipes

One way to save recipes is to use a recipe manager, such as Paprika. You enter the URL or browse to it in the program and it loads it up for you so you can optionally edit and save. You then can search all of your recipes in one place. Works cross platform - MacOS and IOS so you have our recipes wherever you have an Apple device, such as in the store when grocery shopping.

Another option is Evernote. My workflow is to save a recipe to an Evernote folder "Recipes to Test" via the web clipper. If I like it I paste the URL which Evernote has saved into Paprika so Paprika can load and save it.

The above process works best with cooking websites such as all of the America's Test kitchen sites, Chefsteps, FoodNetwork, Epicurious, Milk Street, Eating Well, NY Times, etc. Text, image sites which may have video. You can load a Youtube page into Paprika, but then you will have to select the text fields in order to import them.

For Youtube it involves more work, but still is relatively simple.



You select the text and then hit the copy button below for the appropriate field name, description, etc. In this example you can see that Name and Description are darkened meaning that I have already copied the text. Then you just hit save and it is added to your database.