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Kill those Flash ads in your browser. It’s easy and free.
October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Firefox has an add-on that will give you the option of playing or not playing those annoying Flash ads that appear in Web site banners. Even Technorati, which should know better considering its audience, has one of those “you’ve won some sort of crap, click here” ads in its banner. Once you’ve installed the Flashblock add-on, a page that has Flash in it shows just the Flash logo and a play button where the offending ad would be. You have the option to play the ad or not. This is very handy–by default, you don’t have to view the garbage, and when you get to page that has Flash that is legitimate, you just hit the play button.
Best of all, you can allow certain sites to display Flash by default. This is handy for me when I check client Web sites where I have used Flash. Just go to Tools > Add-ons, select Flashblock, click the Preferences button, and list the sites that you want to allow. Be sure to enter just the domain name (e.g. sparklingdawg.com) without the slashes or http protocol info.
I downloaded FlashBlock from Mozilla: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433. As with all Firefox add-ons, just click the “Add to Firefox” button on the downloads page, and the installation is done automatically, after which you’ll be asked to restart Firefox. Firefox restores the previous session on restart, so there’s no reason to wait until later to restart.
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My versions: Firefox 3.0.2, Flashblock 1.5.6. NOTE: Flashblock 1.5.6 is designed to work only with Firefox 1.5 and newer, Netscape Navigator 9 and with Flock. For other browsers such as Firefox 1.0.7, Mozilla Suite, Seamonkey, and Netscape 7 and 8, check out Flashblock 1.3.9:
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/installation2.html
Flashblock currently blocks the following content types:
* Macromedia Flash
* Macromedia Shockwave
* Macromedia Authorware