How to slow down google's image search page load?
November 13, 2016 11:40 AM Subscribe
Bear with me. In the split second between hitting enter and the results loading, google throws up a bunch of place-holder colored blocks that reflect the color of the individual images that will eventually load. I want to grab a screen capture of the page of the colored blocks.
Static Vagabond has it! See the sapphires. In fact, GPRS was so slow that I thought it wasn't working at all at first, but there was plenty of time to take the screenshot. FWIW my DSL connection is fast enough that I don't even see those boxes (took a screen recording to check just in case it was too fast to see).
posted by wnissen at 12:11 PM on November 13, 2016
posted by wnissen at 12:11 PM on November 13, 2016
Or you can let the page load normally, then open the developer tools, choose the option from the menu to 'undock to a separate window', then remove the images by running the following code from the console tab:
posted by gregjones at 12:14 PM on November 13, 2016 [1 favorite]
Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('#search img')).map((n) => n.parentNode.removeChild(n))
posted by gregjones at 12:14 PM on November 13, 2016 [1 favorite]
I would just do a screen recording with something like Quicktime, play it back, pause on the moment you want, and screen cap that.
posted by joan_holloway at 12:16 PM on November 13, 2016
posted by joan_holloway at 12:16 PM on November 13, 2016
Response by poster: Yes! Thanks static vagabond!
posted by cocoagirl at 12:36 PM on November 13, 2016
posted by cocoagirl at 12:36 PM on November 13, 2016
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posted by Static Vagabond at 11:56 AM on November 13, 2016 [4 favorites]