And you thought pop-ups (of course pop-unders) were nagging. More than them are the leechers that sit right into the web page. You got it right I am talking about all the flash ads which have off late become the most preferred from of advertisements. First as being embedded objects they flirt with your browsing speed as they need to be downloaded as any other web object and secondly of the flashy nature. No offense to the people who work with them and have their earnings by these flash objects. I am sure you hate them as much as I do. But hold on please their is a solution.
If you are a Firefox (both 2 and 3 beta) or flock user then you have a sweet extension called as flashblock. This extension blocks all the flash objects and loads them only when you click them and hence considerably increasing the web page load time. There's a tweak though as most of the video players use flash movie players these videos are blocked too and hence you have to click them to watch them. As a suggestion to the person who has written it I am sure he can modify the code to make the extension sit in the status bar and could be toggled on an off by click of mouse. Thus allowing the user to chose for which site the flashblock is on and for which it is off. I can write it but I have other things in my kitty right now. I am sure there also exists a solution for Internet Explorer but I am not wasting my time looking for one because I firmly believe that it's not the browser of future (in fact it ain't even the browser of present). I don't use it unless the site is not firefox compliant (which today is not the case for most of the sites).
PS: Did you know that Opera is much better XHTML complaint compared to firefox.
If you are a Firefox (both 2 and 3 beta) or flock user then you have a sweet extension called as flashblock. This extension blocks all the flash objects and loads them only when you click them and hence considerably increasing the web page load time. There's a tweak though as most of the video players use flash movie players these videos are blocked too and hence you have to click them to watch them. As a suggestion to the person who has written it I am sure he can modify the code to make the extension sit in the status bar and could be toggled on an off by click of mouse. Thus allowing the user to chose for which site the flashblock is on and for which it is off. I can write it but I have other things in my kitty right now. I am sure there also exists a solution for Internet Explorer but I am not wasting my time looking for one because I firmly believe that it's not the browser of future (in fact it ain't even the browser of present). I don't use it unless the site is not firefox compliant (which today is not the case for most of the sites).
PS: Did you know that Opera is much better XHTML complaint compared to firefox.
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