remove all images from a webpage

You can remove all of the images displayed on any web page by making use of the 'Remove Images' bookmarklet posted here: https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/100-useful-bookmarklets-for-better-productivity-ultimate-list/

A bookmarklet is javascript code that you can add as a bookmark on your web browser. On the Hongkiat site simply select the link for the bookmarklet and drag it to your bookmarks bar. When you are on a web page and you click the link, the images will no longer be displayed.

You can get the images for a web page back by refreshing the page. The bookmarklet may not work with animated images.

Extracting the links for multiple files uploaded to Box

The Tip of the Night for June 24, 2020 discussed how to get the links for multiple files uploaded to a Box file share site. There is a limitation to this approach - the source code for any one web page for a Box folder may only list the first 20 files that auto load after you visit the site. Even if you scroll down to load additional files, the urls for them will not appear in the source code for the web page.

I haven't found an ideal way to deal with this problem, but I have figured out a useful workaround. You can use an add-in for Chrome called Linkclump which will allow you to select and open multiple links on any web page. See: chrome-extension://lfpjkncokllnfokkgpkobnkbkmelfefj/pages/options.html?init=true

Linkclump will show up as a icon that looks like a bunch of scallions in the browser to the right of the address box. If it doesn't display click on the puzzle piece icon which will give you the option to pin any add-in or extension to the browser.

Display as many links as possible in the Box folder by zooming out, and perhaps setting the monitor to portrait mode.

Hold down 'z' on your keyboard and click and drag a box over the links. When you release the left click button each selected file will open in a new tab.

Next go to Chrome's 3 dot menu and select 'Bookmark all tabs . . .'

[It's not necessary to wait for each file to fully load in the new page.] Create a new folder to hold all of the urls currently open in your browser.

As many times as needed open additional file links in the Box folder until all files are open.

Next, browse to the folder containing the urls in Chrome's Bookmark Manager.

You be able to select each file and copy and paste the links into an Excel spreadsheet. After this is done, click on the 3 dot menu to the right of the Bookmark Manager and export the bookmark names.

The exported file will be a html file from which you can copy and paste the names for each file in the Box folder.

Remove the references to ' | Powered by Box' and you will have the complete list of urls cross referenced with file names in the spreadsheet.

Speeding up Chrome

There are some simple steps you can take to make sure that your Google Chrome browser is operating at optimum speed so you can run jobs in Relativity and other web based applications at the best possible speed. Chrome is notorious for taking up a lot of memory. See the Tip of the NIght for April 6, 2021.

First access Chrome's Task Manager by clicking on the three dot menu, and going to More tools . . . Task Manager:

In Task Manager, sort in the 'Memory footprint' and find which tasks are taking up the most memory.

You may find that some extensions added to the browser, and some processes listed as subframes are taking up a significant amount of memory. You can end these by clicking on the blue 'End process' button at the bottom of the window.

You should be careful about shutting down subframes. They are used to prevent some sites from improperly reading data input into another site.

You should see task named GPU Process taking up a lot of memory. This is used to render graphics on a web page, and should make online browsing faster.

Google recommends shutting down tasks which are designated as Background pages. These are html pages utilized by extensions.

The amount of memory that Chrome uses can increase greatly if you have a lot of tabs open. There is an extension called Auto Tab Discard which can be used to essentially hibernate other open tabs. The tabs will still appear to be open in your browser, but they will not take up as much memory. Auto Tab Discard appears as a small power button icon on the top toolbar in Chrome. (Be sure to click the puzzle piece icon on the far right of the browser so you can manage which extensions are displayed, after installing Auto Tab Discard.)

Auto Tab Discard will give you the option to 'discard' tabs to the left, to the right, or all other tabs other than your current one.

When these options are toggled on, the tabs will not close, but a small snoring 'zZZZ' icon will be added to them indicating that they are in a suspended mode.

Auto Tab Discard will retain data input on a page, and your position on a page. I tested it tonight and confirmed that it will not log you out of Relativity.

As soon as you click back on a discarded tab, it will automatically reactivate.