Click OK when you??™re
done.
Other types of animations require different strategies. To turn off Flash animations
in Internet Explorer, you must uninstall the Flash player using Macromedia??™s
elusive uninstaller tool, available at http://www.macromedia.com/
support/flashplayer/ (search the knowledgebase for ???uninstall???).
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But in Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey, you can use the powerful Adblock
Plus extension, available for free at http://adblockplus.org/, to selectively hide
animations. Once installed, restart your browser, and then go to Tools ???
Adblock Plus. Open the Options menu, and if the Show tabs on Flash and
Java entry doesn??™t have a checkmark next to it, select it and then click OK.
Thereafter, a little tab labeled Block will protrude from any Flash animation
on a page (see Figure 7-38); just click the Block tab to show the address of
the ad, and then click OK to begin blocking that particular Flash animation.
Adblock Plus supports wildcards so that, for instance, you can block all
Flash animations from a particular server, rather than having to do it manually
for each one. The next time you click a Block tab, you??™ll see the address
of the .swf file, like this:
http://advertising.server/ads/chipmunk.swf
Just replace the filename with an asterisk (*), like this:
http://advertising.server/ads/*
to block all the files from the /ads/ folder on that server. Adblock Plus will
continue to hide these animations until you manually remove the corresponding
rule from the Adblock Plus Preferences window.
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