Prevent OBJECT Insertion

To avoid a problem of Amazon, maybe. See Bug 1172205.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Userscripts to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey to install this script.

You will need to install a user script manager extension to install this script.

(I already have a user script manager, let me install it!)

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You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

(I already have a user style manager, let me install it!)

// ==UserScript==
// @name               Prevent OBJECT Insertion
// @description        To avoid a problem of Amazon, maybe.  See Bug 1172205.
// @description:ja-JP  「Amazonが重い」問題を回避できるかもしれません。
// @namespace          f4cce630-3501-4d9f-a846-d69064429f02
// @include            /^https?://(?:www\.amazon\.(?:c(?:o(?:\.(?:jp|uk)|m(?:\.(?:au|br|mx))?)|[an])|de|es|fr|i[nt]|nl))/.*/
// @version            1.0
// @grant              none
// @run-at             document-start
// @copyright          No copyright. this program is in the public domain.
// ==/UserScript==

// 1172205 – Amazon preloads resources with <object> tags causing the throbber to blink heavily shortly after page load
// https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172205

var TARGET_NAME = "OBJECT";
var ORIG_SUFFIX = "-original-f4cce630-3501-4d9f-a846-d69064429f02";

["appendChild", "insertBefore"].forEach(function(name){
  window.HTMLElement.prototype[name + ORIG_SUFFIX] = window.HTMLElement.prototype[name];
  window.HTMLElement.prototype[name] = function() {
    var node = arguments[0];
    if (node.nodeName !== TARGET_NAME)
      node = this[name + ORIG_SUFFIX].apply(this, arguments);
    else {
      // console.log("Blocked: " + node.outerHTML);
      node = null;
    }
    return node;
  }
});