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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/ > > -- "Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those who take advice" (Proverbs 13:10).
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