Slight problem with a new function

[Anon 20140923001]

After testing this little thing on the firefox affialiate banner item at the bottom of the page I noticed that I am quite incapable of making it return. So I did confirm it works, however it's not quite practical if I can't change my mind.

Holding the left mouse button down on an absolutely positioned page element and hitting the DEL key will remove it if scripts are disabled (useful to forcibly kill in-page popups). This feature can be disabled by setting the noscript.eraseFloatingElements about:config preference to false.

I see it in the source however I cannot see it otherwise.
I might or might not have had scripts on noscript.net as allowed. Eitherway, it would be nice to know what to modify in order to mess with those settings/lists/etc.

[therube]

One day I'll read the manual & know about all these little tricks .

URL: http://vk.com/

Load it & it will roll over to "badbrowser.php" (assuming you don't have vk.com allowed).

Just as you said, left-click & hold within their message box, hit DEL & poof.
Not sure just what I'm accomplishing with that, but, having it do something is better then having it do nothing, I suppose.


(There is a similar trick, dealing with objects, or maybe it is object placeholder.)


Nuke Anything Enhanced

[Anon 20140923002]

I actually know about that. I was asking if there was a way to reverse it just as easily.

[OldLurker]

Not sure just what I'm accomplishing with that, but, having it do something is better then having it do nothing, I suppose.

Try it on this site:

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smh.com.au

Like paint stripper when you don't want to be forced into whitelisting a domain.

Easy to reverse - but who'd want to for any of those fixed annoyances? - just whitelist the domain, then remove it from the whitelist.

[barbaz]

Testing with a local server, seems enough just to reload the page to get the zapped element(s) back.
Are you sure it's NoScript that removed the "Download Firefox" banner for you? Can't remove that with NS here...

[Giorgio Maone]

Testing with a local server, seems enough just to reload the page to get the zapped element(s) back.

Yes, that's the intended behavior.
It's useful to get rid on the fly of those pesky HTML-based inlined popups which you couldn't close otherwise with JavaScript disabled.