Blocking Flash advertisements in Firefox

[timothykaine]

Firefox has _most_ popups under control. When I visit a webpage that has a popup, it tells me its blocked, and gives me the option of allowing it or ignoring it.

Can I get this option for flash content in Firefox?

Id like for flash to be installed, and when a page has flash on it, for me to have to allow it to use flash or the same as the popup method would be even better. It would speed up surfing on many sites, and be another good ad-blocking method, as popups are a dying thing and flash ads are way more obnoxious (blocking content on the page itself, expanding on its own, making obnoxious sounds, etc).

Pardon my poor English as of this moment *knocks back another beer*

Any thoughts?

[cybertron]

How about FlashBlock (https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=ALL&id=433)?

[timothykaine]

Works PERFECTLY under Ubuntu 4.10 w/ Firefox 0.9.3.

I love it, and I love you for showing it to me. :D

(EDIT: Nevermind! Visiting Justlinux.com makes the browser crash now. Had to uninstall it. Maybe itll work with newer versions of Firefox. Ill try it on one of my other machines that has a distro with a more recent version of Firefox)

[squeegy]

try adblock i believe it allows you to block flash ads.

[timothykaine]

Originally posted by squeegy
try adblock i believe it allows you to block flash ads.

No luck with Adblock. Doesnt do anything in regards to Flash.

The Flashblock one was great, if only it didnt make JL crash my browser in Ubuntu. :(

I attribute this to Ubuntu's lack of updates, however, not to any fault in Firefox.

[bwkaz]

The newest version of Flashblock works fine for me with FF 1.0 -- but then, I compiled FF 1.0 myself, too. I'm not using one of the binaries from their site.

Maybe Flashblock itself has issues with older Firefox releases? Have you tried some of the older Flashblock versions?

[cybertron]

Yeah, if you're using an older version there's one that does the same thing called Flash Click-To-View but was never updated for 1.0. I think it's by the same guy, he just renamed it for 1.0.

[Captain_K]

Wow I never knew that existed, what a great plugin :) I dont have any adds in hotmail anymore.. sweet!

:D

[infiniphunk]

Hey thanks! Flashblock is cool.

[timothykaine]

Originally posted by cybertron
Yeah, if you're using an older version there's one that does the same thing called Flash Click-To-View but was never updated for 1.0. I think it's by the same guy, he just renamed it for 1.0.

Seems to work perfectly on Ubuntu's older version of Firefox, and stable too.

Even the buttons are indentical. Thanks!

[cybertron]

Glad to hear it worked.:)

One word of caution, if you have other adblocking in your UserContent.css and thus copy it from one install to another or whatever, FlashBlock adds some lines in there that block all Flash, and if you try to use that UserContent file without actually installing FlashBlock you'll get no Flash at all for no apparent reason. That's the unapparent reason:)

[The Coder]

Adblock works for me. It blocks flash and everything else. I am dual booting XP and Ubuntu and am using firefox in both and works in both. Did you try the following?:

Tools -> Adblock -> Overlay Flash