On 5/9/2016 6:31 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 5/8/2016 9:54 AM, David E. Ross wrote:
>> On 5/8/2016 7:44 AM, WaltS48 wrote:
>>> On 05/08/2016 10:34 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>> On 5/7/2016 9:53 AM, WaltS48 wrote:
>>>>> Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>>>> Web designers have gone bonkers with styles.
>>>>>> Their idiocy can be defeated on a per-page basis by View->Use
>>>>>> Style->None.
>>>>>> I wish to surf with "None" being my default rather than
>>>>>> "Default Style".
>>>>>> How???? I unsuccessfully searched about:config for both "CSS"
>>>>>> and "style".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To declutter my experience I browse with:
>>>>>>   JavaScript, cookies, colors/backgrounds disabled
>>>>>>   font size forced to a readable minimum
>>>>>>
>>>>>> HELP please.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> When I set View > Page Style > No Style in SeaMonkey for one
>>>>> site, all the other sites I visit after have No Style.
>>>>>
>>>>> The same in Firefox.
>>>>>
>>>>> It appears to me that is all you need to do, unless it reverts on
>>>>> a restart. Which it did in my Firefox test.
>>>>>
>>>>> My solution would be to start with my home page set to
>>>>> about:blank, change the setting from the menu and continue on.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> But it reverts anytime a new browser window or tab is opened :<
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's why you start with about:blank as the home page, change it and
>>> browse happily each restart, until somebody comes up with a better
>>> solution. Maybe leave the browser running 24/7 so you can escape the
>>> annoyance of changing the setting each restart.
>>>
>>> I'll experiment and see if I can find something.
>>>
>>
>> Do as I did.  I instealled the PrefBar extension from
>> <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/prefbar/>.
> 
> !!! I consider that URL *TOXIC*  !!!
> BACKGROUND: Since the days of Netscape I have explicitly avoided 
> addons/extensions/???.
>              [presumed to be the moral equivalent of a plague of 
> virii ;]
> They use "download" to ACTUALLY MEAN *INSTALL*.
> I clicked on the link expecting to download a file which I could 
> examine.
> When download manager did not come up, I aborted SeaMonkey and 
> restarted in Safe Mode.
> It informed me that an addon was attempting an installation.
> I refused permission.
> 
>>   Then I
>> imported the CSS Checkbox into PrefBar from
>> <http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/buttons.html#togglecss>, which placed the
>> checkbox on my PrefBar tool bar.
> 
> When you posted that URL originally, I associated any URL with 
> "tux" in it to be
> Linux oriented. As I'm on widows currently, I passed.
> 
>>
>> Most Web sites have okay CSS.  When I find a site that has a problem, I
>> merely uncheck the CSS Checkbox without having to navigate through a menu.
>>
> 
> My original post stated my requirement to be the inverse.
> I *REQUIRE* JavaScript, cookies, and styles(CSS etc) to be 
> disabled by default.
> 
> 

I am strictly Windows.  I have been using PrefBar for many, many years.
In fact, I wish PrefBar were an inherent capability of SeaMonkey and not
an extension; I actually wrote a bug report to request that.  The bug
report was closed as WontFix.

-- 
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