The URL Prefs are an interesting feature of IBrowse², allowing you to control individual settings for individual, or groups of URLs. The URL can be anything from an entire web site, to just a particular page. The examples shown below are to provide you with a rough idea of how the URL Prefs should be used, and the use of wildcards to pattern match entries. The Strictness rating below each entry will give you an approximate idea of how strict the pattern matching is for the entry provided. |
URL Pattern: http://www.somesite.com/index.html This entry will only match the specified web page.
e.g. there could be an annoying animation on this page that you would like to disable, but allow animations on all other areas of this web site to operate as normal. By setting the URL pattern to the specific URL of the web page, you will restrict the options you set to just that web page. Strictness: Very High |
URL Pattern: http://www.somesite.com/#? This pattern will match any web pages within the specified domain.
e.g. this web site may make use of some JavaScript that is not yet supported by IBrowse² so you wish to disable it. Using this pattern the option will not be applied to any sub-domains used by the web site. e.g. http://forums.somesite.com/ Strictness: High |
URL Pattern: http://#?.somesite.com/#? This pattern will match any pages on any sub-domains of the web site.
e.g. this web site may make use of some JavaScript that is not yet supported by IBrowse² so you wish to disable it. Using this pattern the option will be applied to all sub-domains used by the web site. e.g. http://forums.somesite.com/ Strictness: Medium |
URL Pattern: https://#?.somesite.com/#? This pattern will match any pages on any sub-domains of the web site, using the HTTPS protocol.
e.g. this secure web site may make use of some JavaScript that is not yet supported by IBrowse so you wish to disable it. Using this pattern the option will be applied to all sub-domains using the secure protocol used by the web site. e.g. https://shop.somesite.com/ Strictness: Medium |
URL Pattern: #?.somesite.com/#? This pattern will match any pages on any sub-domains of the web site, using any protocol.
e.g. this web site may make use of some JavaScript that is not yet supported by IBrowse so you wish to disable it. It may also have a secure link that is accessed via the HTTPS protocol, which also needs to have the JavaScript disabled. Using this pattern the option will be applied to all sub-domains and all protocols used by the web site. e.g. https://shop.somesite.com/ Strictness: Low |
URL Pattern: #?.com/#? This pattern will match any pages on the .com domain, using any protocol.
e.g. you may wish to stop all pages from .com web sites from being cached. Strictness: Low |
URL Pattern: #? This is a very interesting wildcard pattern, as it allows you to match any URLs you visit.
This can be useful if you would like to set an option globally that is only available in the URL Prefs, such as Cache URLs or Spoof as Mozilla. Strictness: Very Low |