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Firefox Image Blocking disappears
#53284 01/09/20 03:30 PM
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... in version 72.0 and 72.0.1 just released. When examining Page View Info with respect to (dis)allowing images per website, the option no longer appears. Consequently all sites which I had set to block images (for purposes of download speed enhancement) have reverted to allowing same.
Any ideas?
I suppose I could go into Firefox's about:config and toggle that item globally, but I found it more useful to do such site by site (so that I wouldn't have be continually shifting back and forth between block/allow).

Re: Firefox Image Blocking disappears
grelber #53285 01/10/20 07:15 AM
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Has Firefox maybe ceded the functionality to an Add-on?


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Re: Firefox Image Blocking disappears
artie505 #53286 01/10/20 09:38 AM
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I suspect so, but normally Mozilla would announce such a dramatic change (and I see no evidence of the that ... the option just disappeared).
I thought I might add Image Block but I can't get it to behave on a per-site basis.

EDIT:
My installed uBlock Origin has a feature to "Block media elements larger than [selectable] KB" under Default Behavior. The trick to enable such on a per-site basis is to set the size (eg, 20 KB) in the size window and NOT to select item for universal default behavior. (It took a while to suss that out.)
It's not as good a solution as that which used to be incorporated in Firefox which simply removed all images, but it's something.

Last edited by grelber; 01/11/20 06:37 AM. Reason: Corrected info
Re: Firefox Image Blocking disappears
grelber #53289 01/11/20 03:18 PM
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It turns out that Mozilla did announce the change in their release notes to version 72.0 (which I didn't scroll down enough to see).
They have, however, provided guidance to reversion to status quo ante:

Note that for now you can revert this change by setting this pref to true on the about:config page (no restart necessary).
extensions.contentblocker.enabled = true

We shall see.

I carried out the task but got some very bizarre behavior which seemed to be cured by restarting Firefox — contrary to Mozilla's parenthethical comment (see above).

Last edited by grelber; 01/11/20 05:49 PM. Reason: More info (in green)

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