Yes, I use Firefox but agree that these plug-ins are great for removing unwanted ads and flash - speeding up browsing significantly.
There are several plug-ins for Firefox, but the relevant ones which I am currently running are: - Flashblock - as for clicktoflash on Safari it blocks all Flash assets on a web page until you explicitly click on them. - Adblock Plus - this strips out all the other (non-flash) ads based on whatever filter set you add (I use Rick752's EasyList - which seems to work well for me) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 24/2/10 5:26 AM, Peter Sealy at carp...@internode.on.net wrote: > > I agree with Matt. I have been using Clicktoflash for a long while now and it > works great. But it does not stop all image based advertising because a lot of > advertisers now place their advertisements within the web page and don't use > Flash. I don't know how this is done. I bet there is an army of geeks working > on how to defeat Clicktoflash on behalf of the advertising industry or even > within Adobe. > > But for now +1 for Clicktoflash. I think there is at least one other similar > app. > > > > > > > > On 24/02/2010, at 3:36 AM, Dark1 wrote: > >> >> Wow. Thanks for this Matt. Indeed there is a great amount of flash >> advertising. This link is very useful. >> >> Ruben >> >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> With all the well-deserved Flash-bagging going around I thought it poignant >>> to mention a great little plugin for Safari called Click2Flash. >>> >>> <http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/> >>> >>> Essentially, it blocks all Flash assets on a web page until you explicitly >>> click on them. From a purely subjective point of view, web browsing is >>> significantly faster on flash-ad heavy sites. It just feels smoother. >>> >>> It's also quite an eye-opened to see how much Flash content is actually >>> embedded into sites these days. >>> >>> Try it out. >>> >>> - Matt Healey > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
