Ad-blocking in Firefox is great, but....

[Ilmater]

The absolute, most annoying ads are Flash adds. Stuff's moving everywhere, colors are flashing, etc., etc. So does Firefox have a way to block Flash ads and not just images?

 

[Modeps]

Try Adblock extension. It blocks flash ads.

 

[Sunner]

Flashblock
By far the best IMO, since 99% of all flash is nothing but junk.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Adblock

ne-click filtering of: applets, flash, embedded-media

 

[CTho9305]

The adblock page implies that they don't currently have the same functionality of Flash Click-to-View (what FlashBlock used to be called). FlashBlock rocks.

 

[Ilmater]

Does Flashblock work like the image blocker built in to Firefox does? In other words, can I right-click on it and only deny flash animations from certain websites? I don't want to block ALL flash animations.

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Nothing I've used beats AdMuncher. Kills all popups, flash ads, most banners, etc. You can do stuff like referrer spoofing and IP scrambling through proxies for more anonymous surfing if you wish.

EDIT: And you can configure it to allow ads on certain pages if you wish. It doesn't screw up the formatting of the page when it removes an advert though.

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: Ilmater
Does Flashblock work like the image blocker built in to Firefox does? In other words, can I right-click on it and only deny flash animations from certain websites? I don't want to block ALL flash animations.

Exactly and you can do it with wildcards: "www.ads.com/banner/* "
or single address "www.ads.com/banner/omgwtf.swf"

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: biostud666

Originally posted by: Ilmater
Does Flashblock work like the image blocker built in to Firefox does? In other words, can I right-click on it and only deny flash animations from certain websites? I don't want to block ALL flash animations.

Exactly and you can do it with wildcards: "www.ads.com/banner/* "
or single address "www.ads.com/banner/omgwtf.swf"

If it's what I think it is, you get a little icon which you click on, which allows the flash to be loaded and viewed.
It blocks all Flash, IIRC, but then you can unblock the ones you want.
(Unless I'm thinking of another plugin)

 

[CTho9305]

http://ctho.ath.cx/tmp/moz/flash.png <- AT front page, with flash block. It does block all sites by default, but I believe the author recently added the ability to blacklist/whitelist sites.

 

[Kilrsat]

http://www.beertracker.com/anandtech.png <- AT front page, with AdBlock.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Ilmater
Does Flashblock work like the image blocker built in to Firefox does? In other words, can I right-click on it and only deny flash animations from certain websites? I don't want to block ALL flash animations.

Yeah it blocks all flash, the good thing is that once you run into a flash animation you actually wanna see, you can just click it and it's there

I use it in combination with adblock.