Re: browser oddities
On Nov 16, 2007 7:12 AM, Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> >> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:20:49 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> >>>> 2. Flash image obscuring text.
> >>>> -------------------------------
> >>>> I've recently started seeing web pages using flash, in which some
> >>>> flash
> >>>> image obscures text. In once case, there was a navigation bar
> >>>> overlapping the pages's text, which couldn't be made to go away. In
> >>>> another case, a popup menu popped up _behind_ a flash image, making it
> >>>> impossible to see or click on the menu entries.
> >>> Yes, that is annoying. But flash *is* annoying anyway, so I just
> >>> adblock
> >>> it away!
> >>
> >> adblock is great! But does not seem to work on all the flash images.
> >> Sometimes I see a flash advertisement. But there is no "block" tab.
> >> Any suggestions about that?
> >
> > Any example page? You can probably try to block it in the "Blockable
> > items" tab of Adblock+. Also, I heard that flashblock (or some similar
> > sounding extension) is good, though I never used it myself.
> >
> >
> I have both installed and find it works quite well. With flashblock,
> you only run flash applets IF YOU WANT TO by clicking on them.
> Otherwise, they don't run.
Flashblock is great, I used to install it first thing on a new browser
install. Now I use Noscript, which can block Java, Silverlight, iframes,
and any other <object>s, and, of course, scripts. Noscript Flash and
Java blocking works just like Flashblock. The script blocking is more
annoying until you turn off the "slide up" notifications and allow JS on
the the top JS-using sites you visit. From there on it works great.
Between Adblock+ and Noscript I find many pages load much faster
and browser stability is much improved.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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