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New York Times Kill Doubleclick Dictionary

kill the New York Times / nytimes.com popup dictionary - nyt.com / NYT

I habitually click and drag to highlight text while reading web pages. The NYT website recently added a feature where this opens a dictionary in a popup window; I find this amazingly annoying. This script just kills their doubleclick event handler to stop this behaviour.

Keywords: NYT nyt.com nytimes nytimes.com newyorktimes newyorktimes.com

Aug 16, 2008 Chris Blow User	wait -- did they stop using the doubleclick dictionary or am i crazy? God bless you for writing this BTW.

Jun 20, 2008 Earl Script's author	Hey all, I'm working on fixing this; ff3 / greasemonkey broke something or other. Sorry for the delay. earl

Jun 9, 2008 Deb Morrissey Scriptwright	Yep, it's broken on FF3. However, if you have AdblockPlus, just block: *.nytimes.com/js/common/screen/altClickToSearch.js. Problem solved.

Jun 2, 2008 xIke User	Doesn't work for me. FF3 RC1, Mac OS 10.5.3.

May 29, 2008 Travholt Scriptwright	Doesn't work for me in Mac FF 3 RC1 (with extensions.checkCompatibiliyt set to false).

Mar 25, 2008 wskellenger Scriptwright	This script also works, as-is, on cbsnews.com, which has the same "feature". Just add http://www.cbsnews.com/* to the included pages list.

Mar 17, 2008 ebcindc User	this is fantastic man - thank you. I wish to hades I'd have looked here earlier!

Mar 10, 2008 Trevor Creech Scriptwright	Excellent! I too select text randomly while reading articles, and this was driving me nuts.

Dec 9, 2007 bobielawlintine Scriptwright	You could just block altClickToSearch.js with Adblock Plus or Opera's built it content blocker.

Sep 4, 2007 Scott Graham User	Thanks! Such an idiotic "feature".

Sep 1, 2007 Daniël de Leeuw Scriptwright	Thanks Earl! I've been looking for this for quite some time.

Jul 6, 2007 gennessee User	Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Jun 18, 2007 Huey Scriptwright	You rock! Thanks for killing their annoying page view enhancer. Stupid stupid NYtimes.

Jun 18, 2007 McD User	It works! Thanks so much. You have greatly reduced my odds of ever going postal.

May 21, 2007 Matthew Flas... Scriptwright	Great script. This has been annoying me for a while (I have the same habit).

May 7, 2007 David Booth Scriptwright	Suggestion: Please add "nytimes.com" to the title or keywords for this script, so that people can find it when searching for scripts for nytimes.com. Thanks!

Mar 19, 2007 George Saunders Scriptwright	Thanks.

Mar 13, 2007 WiNoJoE User	Thanks Earl, thought I was going crazy at first. What a stupid "feature" NYT has added. I had to restart browser to get your script to work, but works as advertised.

Mar 5, 2007 wlai User	oh man you saved nyt.com!

Mar 2, 2007 ervin bruke User	Big fan Thanks bud

Mar 2, 2007 Earl Script's author	Hey, If you grab this and it doesn't work for you, please let me know. earl