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A new Wiki has been developed to help support publishing RIP's, provide help on XPath syntax and other information related to RIP. It is located at here. If you have any comments please contact David who has done an excellent Job setting up this Wiki.

Rip (Remove it Permanently) provides the ability to point at and remove permanently any item you can select. It provide a flexible and easily configurable solution to removing unwanted content from a web page.

If it is just image based ad's removal you are looking for I suggest you use the rather excellent (Ad Block) extension and download a good list of regular expression for this extension.

If on the other hand you want the power to choose what content you want removed, be it unwanted forms, text based ads or just areas of a page (or website) you don't want to see anymore, RIP is for you.

Click here to install RIP version 1.0.6.4

The following images are a before and after Rip of the Boing Boing Website as an example:

BoingBoing before Rip

BoingBoing after Rip installed

View BoingBoing. If you have Rip installed it should not contain ads.

Rip 1.0.6.4 is a maintenance release to support Firefox 3.0

Rip 1.0.6.3 is a maintenance release to support Firefox 2.0

Rip 1.0.6.1 is a maintenance release to support Firefox 1.5.0.1

Rip 1.0.6 has the following bug fixes:

• Firefox 1.5 version number support
• Hide statusbar icon if you don't like the status-bar icon browse to "about:config" and change "rip.statusbar.icon" to false to not show it
• Javascript debug info should be removed

Rip 1.0.4 has the following bug fixes:

• French Translation should hopefully work now
• Options Dialog should flow better hopefully
• Editing the RIP name and URL should be much better now
• Add XPath is fixed.
• Empty XPath values have been fixed.
• Supported Firefox (DeerPark) version changed Backup your config.xml before installing DeerPark

Rip 1.0.3 has the following enhanced features and bug fixes: (1.0.2 was corrupt so I upped the version number)

• Download RIP Support - Right click on a .RIP (or a .RIP.XML) file on a Web page and a 'Download RIP' option should appear on the context menu. Select this to download and install the RIP
• RIP Advanced Menu enhancements - Better, simple advanced menu
• Multi-lingual support - should now work (Italian, German, French)
• XPath comments - You can now store comments next to the XPaths
• Mozilla Support - Should now install under Mozilla
• Options Dialog sizing bug fixed
• Fixed capturing RIP's with non-latin character sets - Hopefully, Chinese and Russian character sets should now work
• Better compatibility with other extension - All event handlers now have protection which should help compatibility with other extensions

Rip 1.0.1 has the following enhanced features and bug fixes:

• IFrame support. You can new both remove content from within an IFrame (and also remove the IFrame itself)
• Automatically highlight the area to be ripped.
• Advanced RIP Menu allowing the following features:
• Automatically save RIP wildcards handling various combinations:
1. Current page only
2. all aimilar pages e.g. http;//www.xyz.com/query?*
3. complete website e.g. http://www.xyz.com*
4. complete domain e.g. http://*xyz*
• Selectively pick which item should be removed.
1. Current item only
2. all similar items e.g. //td[@class='ad']
3. Current Parent item
4. all similar parent items e.g. //table[@class='xyz']
• Undo RIP on the Context Menu
• A 'Wiki' setup to allow anyone publish their RIPs. Click here
• Preferences dialog to Tweek various settings of RIP (including what appears on the context menu)
• New 'Clearer' RIP Status bar Icon (thanks to Paul Downling)
• Click on RIP Icon will load the Options Dialog on the appropriate Page.
• Translations into Italian (thanks Pietro aka Uncino) and other languages (Thanks 'babelfish')
• RIP will now work on pages loaded in the background.
• Statistics should now be more accurate (except when content is removed inside an IFrame).

Rip 1.0.1 has the following known issues:

• Frame support. You cannot remove a complete Frame (only IFrames)
• When removing content within an IFrame the status bar Icon statistics will not be updated
• To 'undo' content removed within an IFrame use the "Undo Last Rip" on the context menu.
• Some of the "Stripe" Variations of Firefox pre v1.0.2 don't include XPath support so they won't work with RIP

This extension has been heavily inspired by the excellent work of 2 other extensions (Nuke Anything) and (Greasemonkey). Nuke Anything is beautiful simple, just point and remove, but unfortunately doesn't remember these removals. Greasemonkey provides the ability to run user defined scripts automatically when a page matches a given regular expression. What Rip tries to do is keep the simplicity of Nuke Anything but merging it with some of the "power" of greasemonkey.

Rip 1.0 has the following features:

• "Remove It Permanently" Context menu popup
• Undo last removal from the Edit menu
• Toolbar notification that Rip has removed items on the current page
• Tooltip showing statistics of what has been removed
• Temporarily display pages without being Ripped.
• Options Dialog to allowing configuration of Rip's
• Full wildcard support in both matching URL's and finding content
• XPath viewer to test XPath's used in a Rip