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  1. Re:Crashes by earthbound+kid · · Score: 2, Informative · on Apple Quietly Releases Safari 3.2

    It looks like another input manager though. You can't really trust "plugins" (they're not really plugins but elaborate memory hacks) like those to work when a new version of Safari comes out. The simple solution is just to use a custom CSS file that blocks ads, like the one on http://www.floppymoose.com/.

  2. Re:Excellent news :-) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Safari for Windows Downloaded Over 1 Million Times

    Yeah, that's why it can only resize from one corner, much more convenient.

    It actually is much more convenient, at least to me. Perhaps you are not used to being able to grab any edge of any window to drag and move it around the screen, but in my opinion it's a much better interface decision than having the annoyance of your cursor changing to arrows every time you're near an edge of a window. I much prefer this behaviour.

    Most browsers don't require you to type ctrl+enter to append www. and .com. Just type the domain name and hit enter. Safari follows this convention.

    Ctrl+t does open a new tab. Did you even try the keyboard shortcuts before claiming they don't work?

    As fot the other shortcuts, wait, are you telling me there's no application for Windows that lets you set any keyboard shortcut to perform any action, in any application? That's really too bad. Microsoft should build something like that into Vista SP1. It's been in OS X for 2 or 3 major releases now.

    Thanks to OS X's Keyboard Shortcuts preference pane, on my machine Safari has the same keyboard shortcuts as Firefox, Opera, OmniWeb, Camino, and Flock for performing all of the things you mentioned.

    Use a custom CSS file for your ad-blocking needs. This one works well enough, I'm sure it works on Safari for Windows as well. Simply go to the preferences and 'Select Style Sheet..." and you should be ad-free.

    But of course, with your attitude, nothing Apple does will ever be 'good enough' for you.
  3. Re:Excellent news :-) by The+One+and+Only · · Score: 1 · on Safari for Windows Downloaded Over 1 Million Times

    Safari supports the use of CSS for ad blocking, here is the stylesheet that I use.

  4. Re:Unoptimized CPU hog by The+One+and+Only · · Score: 1 · on Safari on Windows, Leopard Debut at WWDC

    Style sheets are not for amateurs or the general public; extensions are precisely for them.

    Extensions aren't for the general public to code on their own anymore than stylesheets are, but just as pre-coded and pre-compiled extensions can be offered to the general public, so can pre-made CSS filters.

  5. Re:Safari 3.0 beta in Windows ... my experience by The+One+and+Only · · Score: 1 · on Safari 3 vs. Firefox 2 and IE7

    When you combined that with no ad-blocking

    It's called CSS. You can load a stylesheet into Safari that does ad-blocking--here's a good stylesheet to use

  6. Re:Opera still feels more responsive, uses less RA by cortana · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla Firefox 2 RC2 Released

    For the record, I've had epiphany (using xulrunner 1.8.0.7) open for 80 hours now. It has mapped 326 MB of memory, of which 122 MB is resident and 93 MB is 'private dirty'. So I can't claim to see this memory problem.

    The plugins I have installed are the totem movie player, Java 1.5.0_08-b03, and Flash 9.0 r68. I use the CSS rules at http://www.floppymoose.com/ to block Flash until I click on it. Do you block Flash movies?

  7. Re:Flashplayer 8 required :( by pablomarx · · Score: 5, Informative · on Interview With John Romero
    Except, Adblock assumes an opt-out principle. For flash, I would want opt-in: 99.9% of all Flash is trash.
    Then try either FlashBlock (Firefox Extension) or these userContent.css rules. Both block all Flash, putting a placeholder where the Flash object would've been allowing you to click to load it.
  8. Re:If it can't be disabled then I'm off by ReinoutS · · Score: 1 · on Firefox 's Ping Attribute: Useful or Spyware?
    Here go my modpoints, but...
    I guess Gnome users are still stuck with Firefox, or at least I don't know of anything else that's better than it.
    In the the current development version of Epiphany, the GNOME web browser, the adblock extension is stable and working. Using CSS-based ad blocking has been possible for a long time even with older Epiphany versions, although it requires a bit of manual work to edit the relevant userContent.css file.
  9. Re:Flash fixed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 Released

    FlashBlock is better than completely disabling Flash, it allows you to selectively view Flash, but blocks it from loading otherwise.

    I actually don't use FlashBlock, but use a modification to userContent.css which does the same thing but works without the need to install any extension. I haven't actually tested that in 1.5, so I don't know if it'll help or not.

  10. Er... by lullabud · · Score: 1 · on AOL Launches Free Webmail Service

    make that userContent.css.

  11. I used to use adblock by The+Hobo · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Does Adblock Violate A Social Contract?

    Now I use userContent.css found at here and flashblock. It doesn't block EVERY ad but damn near everything, and no updating the blacklist, though if you want even more you can use the userContent.css + adblock + flashblock + firefox popup blocker for the ultimate protection

  12. Re:Narrow by El+Cubano · · Score: 1 · on Google's Next Steps
    After dropping in the style sheet available here into my ~/.firefox/, this is what it looks like (the second article):

    BLANK text text text text BLANK
    BLANK text text text text BLANK
    BLANK text text text text BLANK
    BLANK text text text text BLANK
    BLANK text text text text BLANK
    BLANK text text text text BLANK
    BLANK text text text text BLANK

    Notice tho comlpete lack of ads. :-)

  13. Re:User stylesheets by weeeeed · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Apple Releases Safari 1.2 and Java 1.4.2
    The save way for msn would be:
    IMG[src*="msads.net/"], IMG[src*="atdmt.com/"] { display: none ! important }
    but your way...
    A IMG[SRC*="ads/"] { display: none ! important }
    ...should work as well (you had a . inside instead of /, the image link is to .../ads/... )...

    I found the tip in the original posting at: http://www.floppymoose.com/
  14. Re:no copyrights... no NYT registration by bzipitidoo · · Score: 1 · on The Tyranny of Copyright?
    If all they want is to collect statistics for showing to advertisers, there are less cumbersome ways than forcing people to create accts and log in every time they want to read one crummy article. Creating yet another new acct because you can't find the info for any of the last dozen accounts you hastily created, being told there is already an account for your email address, and then creating yet another email account so you can receive a confirmation email-- no one wants to go thru all that for each of dozens of sites that might be interesting to visit otherwise. All it takes for me to skip something of mild interest, such as a typical newspaper article, is a mild impediment.

    So I read the Washington Post, and don't read the NY Times. I find the Post works better if I block everything from Doublecross. Pretty irritating when an article fails to finish loading because some accursed advertiser can't serve up their animation bloated ads reasonably quickly and the browser times out. I use Mozilla with the pop up blocking, and the style sheet from here to block a bunch of advertisers.

    Evil? It's their site. They can do anything they want on it. And we can choose to visit it, or not. How about you take off your tin foil hat and stop suggesting we all do such cynical conspiracy theory thinking about why the NYT wants people to register. Registration is a pain. No need to look further for reasons we don't like their system. A pity NYT has decided that the gains from having people jump thru their hoops is worth the losses of people avoiding their site.

    Those who object shouldn't enable a system by putting up with it. Find an alternative and patronize that instead. That goes for the NYT's registration system, and for the copyright system. If people were really serious about Mickey Mouse going public domain, we could bring Disney around very quickly. Boycott them and they must change or go out of business. Vote with your feet!

  15. Re:Oh great... by petabyte · · Score: 5, Informative · on Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word)

    I use a mozilla-based browser with the ad blocking userContent.css that can be found here. I find that also helps.

  16. Re:it's not very hard by Greedo · · Score: 1 · on Are Plain-Text Ads Doomed?

    Well, how is Joe User going to install, let alone build, a regexp-based filter on his version of MSIE?

    I can see text-ads sticking around simply because you can't *easily* filter them by installing one of several apps that changes your hosts file, or by installing a custom stylesheet.