How to turn off Google's page preview in search?

Question

How to turn off scripts in Google Search, in particular the page preview?

Answer 1

If you don't mind killing off all other Javascript features, the most reliable way is to just disallow all Javascript for the search page.

No thanks to Google using one domain for so many of its services, you can't do that with NoScript's base functionality, but you can with NoScript's ABE (Application Boundaries Enforcer) subsystem.

Here's a little ABE rule I wrote to kill Google Instant which also does what you want:

Site ^https://encrypted.google.com/(s|search)(\?.*|$)
Deny INC(SCRIPT,XHR)
Sandbox

Further details on this SuperUser answer I wrote earlier:

http://superuser.com/questions/260475/how-to-make-google-search-scriptless-with-noscript-adblock/325939#325939

Answer 2

In Firefox Use Greasemonkey and this script http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/90222

Answer 3

For Firefox, you can use this snippet I came up with in your userContent.css file:

@-moz-document regexp("^https{0,1}://([a-zA-Z0-9\\-]+\\.){0,1}google\\..*") {
    .vspii, #nycp { display: none !important; }
    td#leftnav { display: none !important; }
}