From: Earle Martin Date: 10:06 on 03 Jun 2004 Subject: Flash My hate is of Flash, and of the way that it's quite possible for some halfwit to write a moronic banner advert that appears on streetmap.co.uk and cycles endlessly and gets a death grip on something in Firefox's guts causing the whole application to lock up and become unresponsive thus forcing me to kill it and thus nuke all the twelve or so tabbed windows in it with LOTS OF REALLY FUCKING USEFUL STUFF I WAS READING OR NEEDED TO KEEP OPEN FOR REFERENCE AT SOME LATER POINT. Why doesn't Firefox let you block Flash animations from a certain domain, as well as images? And for that matter, why can't I block images from a certain path on a domain, like "example.com/ads/", as well as from a whole domain? You know what? I've had it with streetmap.co.uk. The amount of crud surrounding the maps on their site has now passed my threshold of "considered harmful".
From: Adeola Awoyemi Date: 10:13 on 03 Jun 2004 Subject: Re: Flash I think firefox allows you to have a custom stylesheet so you could create one to hide (display: none) on object and embed elements on the page. This might however stop you from accessing, movies, sound and java applets on the page! just my 0.02p. Ad! On 3 Jun 2004, at 10:06, Earle Martin wrote: > My hate is of Flash, and of the way that it's quite possible for some > halfwit to write a moronic banner advert that appears on > streetmap.co.uk and > cycles endlessly and gets a death grip on something in Firefox's guts > causing the whole application to lock up and become unresponsive thus > forcing me to kill it and thus nuke all the twelve or so tabbed > windows in > it with LOTS OF REALLY FUCKING USEFUL STUFF I WAS READING OR NEEDED TO > KEEP > OPEN FOR REFERENCE AT SOME LATER POINT. > > Why doesn't Firefox let you block Flash animations from a certain > domain, as > well as images? And for that matter, why can't I block images from a > certain > path on a domain, like "example.com/ads/", as well as from a whole > domain? > > You know what? I've had it with streetmap.co.uk. The amount of crud > surrounding the maps on their site has now passed my threshold of > "considered > harmful". > > -- > Earle Martin > hex on irc.perl.org > http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/ > >
From: Stephen Gower Date: 10:16 on 03 Jun 2004 Subject: Re: Flash On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:06:10AM +0100, Earle Martin wrote: > > Why doesn't Firefox let you block Flash animations from a certain domain, as > well as images? You'll be wanting http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ It rocks. s
From: Earle Martin Date: 11:46 on 03 Jun 2004 Subject: Re: Flash On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:16:23AM +0100, Stephen Gower wrote: > > Why doesn't Firefox let you block Flash animations from a certain domain, as > > well as images? > > You'll be wanting http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ > > It rocks. Ooh! That's so good. Thank you! And... oh... my... God. YES: http://adblock.mozdev.org/ Wildcardable image and Flash blocking. This is the single best Web browsing innovation I've ever seen. Now I have both of these plugins installed: AdBlock prevents Flash from certain sites ever loading, and FlashBlock lets me choose whether I want the others to play. FREAKING AWESOME.
From: Earle Martin Date: 11:49 on 03 Jun 2004 Subject: Re: Flash On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:46:53AM +0100, Earle Martin wrote: > And... oh... my... God. YES: http://adblock.mozdev.org/ > > Wildcardable image and Flash blocking. And iframes! Bye-bye, Google ads!
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 13:13 on 03 Jun 2004 Subject: Re: Flash > Why doesn't Firefox let you block Flash animations from a certain domain, as > well as images? The Firefox flash blocker extension turns all flash into little icons you can load and run at your leisure... or not.
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