Click2Zap

[cjsmith]

Click2Zap removes things from the web page you're viewing, allowing you to make it more printer-friendly or just easier on the eyes.

IT IS THE MOST AWESOME THING IN THE UNIVERSE. Hat tip to lifehacker_rss for the pointer.

Comments

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. If it could remember which parts to not display, I'd pay quite a bit of money for it. One of the pages I look at has so many in-text advertisements for the 'video journal' associated with the site that I've considered writing a Grease monkey script to delete every paragraph that includes the phrase, which would roughly half the size of the page in question. ;)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Heh. Greasemonkey and Adblock remember, this thing doesn't. I hear this thing is very like Aardvark (another Firefox extension); Aardvark may be more full-featured, and might be able to do what you want.

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

This is wonderful! I installed it immediately and tried it, and I love it! It's not only good for printing, it's marvelous for removing pictures and other clutter that makes it hard to read the text onscreen. Thanks for passing it on!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

You are very welcome! I hear that this is very like the Firefox extension "Aardvark", but this one is less browser-limited.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

http://rip.mozdev.org/

I uninstalled it a few months ago 'cause it was buggy, but it's worth keeping an eye on

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I think my next task may be to Greasemonkey Flickr so that it's more usable. In particular, my laptop screen has a very fine pixel pitch (1920x1200 on a 15" diagonal), I use ImageZoom to get around reading problems for text-as-images, but Flickr puts a clear (image?) on top of the image being displayed rendering ImageZoom helpless.

(The bookmarklet doesn't seem to function at all on Flickr pages.)

Greasemonkey to the rescue, but probably after the Death Valley trip.