Comments on: Flash Ads Locking Up Firefox http://www.technipages.com/flash-ads-locking-up-firefox.html Tech Resources Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:13:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Sean http://www.technipages.com/flash-ads-locking-up-firefox.html#comment-560 Sean Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:11:41 +0000 http://www.technipages.com/flash-ads-locking-up-firefox.html#comment-560 I'd like to point out that the best way to cut out ads like that is to keep them from loading in the first place. There's a handy little Firefox extension called "Adblock Plus" that will detect ads and keep those elements from loading in a webpage. Everything else displays just fine, though. The extension script uses a list of known ad servers, which can be referenced to the creator's site, where a very large list is maintained, or you can install Adblock without it, and only filter the ads you want to by right-clicking on the (gif) or using the adblock interface (flash). Here's the Firefox extension link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865 --Sean I’d like to point out that the best way to cut out ads like that is to keep them from loading in the first place. There’s a handy little Firefox extension called “Adblock Plus” that will detect ads and keep those elements from loading in a webpage. Everything else displays just fine, though. The extension script uses a list of known ad servers, which can be referenced to the creator’s site, where a very large list is maintained, or you can install Adblock without it, and only filter the ads you want to by right-clicking on the (gif) or using the adblock interface (flash).

Here’s the Firefox extension link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

–Sean

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