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I want a way to force sites to become static after they are rendered. Just frozen, as though they were on paper. I am tired of scrolling making menu bars move around or triggering popovers. Just give me a way to turn off javascript and any dynamic CSS junk after X amount of time. I looked into writing this as a firefox browser extension, but extensions now use javascript so we're all screwed.

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I've been using this Kill Sticky bookmarklet, and it's turned out to be one of life's simple pleasures. Gets rid of menu bars and popovers. It's the most-used thing on my bookmarks toolbar by a factor of about eleventy babillion. It's not automatic like an extension would be, but you'll find you get 80% of what you want with a tiny bookmarklet.

https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

Its not perfect, but try reader view on Safari.

I use it alot to make various articles and blog posts more readable.

There's also quite a few reader view plugins for Chrome, Firefox, etc

I tried something like thiswith a user script to attack those fixed banners, but I found that it caused too much breakage. (For instance on Youtube you would not be able to use the menus.)

I settled on hiding the fixed headers and other objects upon scroll down. (They can be brought back by scrolling up.) https://iwalton.com/wiki/#NoFixed

It would be nice if there was browser support, maybe something like tricking the page into thinking the viewport is as long as the page itself.

You can effectively disable JavaScript with WebExtensions by injecting a script that overwrites all the properties of the document and window with undefined. Instantly crashes pretty much any script. If you want to do it sometime after page load, you could replace all those properties with a Proxy object instead, and have that object start throwing errors for any access after X time has passed.

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