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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.

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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
Daniƫl 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

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