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Mozilla/Firefox/etc that support CSS ad blocking can block these floating things. I've done it. Here's the addition I made for the particular ads I saw:

td > div#floatpop, td > div#closebox {
display: inline !important;
}

This is a great idea for a thread. I'm assuming this is after I've downloaded the eight jillion patches for Windows I need, but in no particular order:

• A virus scanner (This definitely comes first!)
• WinRAR (I should look into 7-Zip, though.)
• Firefox (and a few choice extensions)
• Thunderbird (I love sharing one mailbox between two operating systems.)
• Filezilla
• Trillian
• iTunes
• Various programs for web development
• OpenOffice.org
• Real Alternative (Screw you, Real! I don't need to take your crap any more!)

1. Firefox
2. The Adblock extension for Mozilla/Firefox
3. mplayer
4. Flash and Java plugins for the browers

Windows:

1. Putty
2. Firefox
3. Mozilla
4. The Adblock extension for Mozilla/Firefox
5. Spybot S&D
6. Flash/Java/Acroread plugins for the browsers
7. WinSCP
8. Cygwin (including XFree86 and Windowmaker)
9. OpenOffice

The only Windows I use is Windows XP Professional as a unix admin in a corporation, so some items may be notably absent. My entire Windows list is software that can be used royalty-free for commercial use )with an obvious emphasis on Free Software).

For example, I use XFree86 shipped with Cygwin for my X server, WinSCP for secure file transfer, Spybot S&D (and not AdAware, which is another excellent product, but would require a licensing fee be paid).

I don't use Winzip at all, since that functionality is built into the explorer interface in Windows XP Professional (don't know about the others), and is also available through Cygwin.

On the occasion I'm visiting a friend who runs Windows on a personal desktop, I also recommend Zinf, the audio player, since it's free software and just plays the music without any corporate spyware tie-ins, eg., contacting a server based on mp3 header fields as WMP and Winamp have started doing.

1. Firefox
2. The Adblock extension for Mozilla/Firefox
3. mplayer
4. Flash and Java plugins for the browers

Windows:

1. Putty
2. Firefox
3. Mozilla
4. The Adblock extension for Mozilla/Firefox
5. Spybot S&D
6. Flash/Java/Acroread plugins for the browsers
7. WinSCP
8. Cygwin (including XFree86 and Windowmaker)
9. OpenOffice

The only Windows I use is Windows XP Professional as a unix admin in a corporation, so some items may be notably absent. My entire Windows list is software that can be used royalty-free for commercial use )with an obvious emphasis on Free Software).

For example, I use XFree86 shipped with Cygwin for my X server, WinSCP for secure file transfer, Spybot S&D (and not AdAware, which is another excellent product, but would require a licensing fee be paid).

I don't use Winzip at all, since that functionality is built into the explorer interface in Windows XP Professional (don't know about the others), and is also available through Cygwin.

On the occasion I'm visiting a friend who runs Windows on a personal desktop, I also recommend Zinf, the audio player, since it's free software and just plays the music without any corporate spyware tie-ins, eg., contacting a server based on mp3 header fields as WMP and Winamp have started doing.

I know the nightlies have a warning if you close the window with multiple open tabs, but I thought this made it in before 0.8. And now I can't find the feature request bug for it to figure out exactly when it was fixed.

As for the session saving, would the Session Saver extension help?

I use both Firefox and Safari on OS X, and I can't decide which one I like better (or dislike least, to be honest). I use Firefox exclusively (almost religiously) when I'm on Linux or Windows. Some observations:

Safari is really quick, has great tabbed-browsing functionality, a Google search in the toolbar, and reasonably good support for web standards. But I really miss the adblock extension. Using a CSS trick helps, but is much less convenient. I've tweaked my adblock.css quite a bit and I still can't get it to block ads from Yahoo! mail. I actually use CSS quite a bit in my work - imagine a regular user trying to write his own adblocking CSS file from scratch!

Firefox has about the best support for web standards anywhere, and all of those other wonderful features that geeks love about Firefox. It looks okay on OS X, but it's so amazingly SLOW! It takes at least 30 seconds to start up on my G3 iBook. I work a lot with SVG, and the OS X version of the Adobe SVG plugin slows Firefox to a crawl.

I end up using Safari for development. I check my web-based email on Firefox. If Safari had a more robust and versatile ad blocking feature I would probably use it exclusively. I'm disappointed with the current state of Firfox on OS X. Perhaps I should try the full Mozilla? Could it possibly be faster than Firefox?

Shift-Left_Click does open a link in a new window in FireFox. I prefer to use tabs, not windows, so I usually Shift-Middle_Click to open the link in a new tab with focus on that tab. Or, if I want to load it in a background tab I'll just Middle_Click. Mozilla FireFox Mouse Shortcuts

Ads? OHHH like banners. I havent seen those for months since i got the Adblock extension for firefox. Will even block iframes so the page just looks like there never was an ad there.

Try it out

this might help people if their right click is disabled, the bookmarklet works in moz/ffox/msie
http://texturizer.net/firefox/tips.html#beh_contex tmenu

EditCSS is what you're looking for. Awesome tool.

While you're there you definitely want Web Developer an UNBELIEVABLY useful tool for diagnosing complex pages.

EditCSS is what you're looking for. Awesome tool.

While you're there you definitely want Web Developer an UNBELIEVABLY useful tool for diagnosing complex pages.

See stories first! Pay extra to get your own "fp" post. WOW!

Get notified if someone "friends" or "foes" you. As opposed to, JUST LOOKING. Again, WOW!

Get an asterisk to identify each other There goes another sucker. Mod the poor bastard up. He can't help that he's stupid. WOWOWOWOWOWOW!

Exclude more topics from homepage See less slashdot. Now there's an idea.

Karma, moderation bonuses Here's the crux

It's all about the mod / meta mod advantages! The next time you see a subscriber call a troll pathetic, bear in mind that person is willing to pay extra to feel like the "big man", to gain an illusory advantage over another on a hacked together, woefully amateur, ugly, glorified bookmark. How wonderfully sad! How utterly revealing! Give a slashbot some meaningless milestone "Blue Skies Badges", "Imaginary Freedom Points", or "League of Excellence Merits" and they fall over themselves to pay you discuss them, collect them, and act as if they're somehow significant. I bet some Slashbots talk to their therapists about them. "I lost three Karma points today. I feel sad about that, like when my father died." Taco, I salute you!

Subscribers - roll up, roll up! I have a bridge to sell you! (By the way, for more of the karma you so desperately need to validate yourself, just reply by saying "Oh - but I subscribe to support this wonderful site. You, troll, wouldn't understand that." Guaranteed +5 Insightful. But I give you "-5 predictable" under the Good Justice Doublegood Motherfucker Pesetas system, so you can't have it all. I mean is there any subscriber, anywhere, who can justify this without using the aforementioned cliche? Anyone?)

Instructions for trial subscriber account. Go to mozilla.org and scroll down to "Firefox 0.8". Select your OS from the list just below (Note: if you are unsure what OS you are using, phone any Computer suppliers premium rate helpline). For Windows: Select "Save" in the dialogue box and save the installation file. Make note of where you saved it. Once the download is completed, double click the file. Follow the on screen instructions. Once Firefox has installed, start it up and, once connected to the Internet, go to the Firefox extensions page. Search for and select "Adblock" extension. Follow the instructions. Now go to slashdot. Right click on an ad. Select "AdBlock Image". Click OK. Repeat for all ads.

Then, please uninstall Firefox after the trial period. Please buy our subscriber accounts. ....Is anyone there? ...Hello!...Hellooooo?

user agent switcher

i have to switch user agent to access one of my bank sites too but that's the only time i have to do it.

i always switch it straight back as well - support mozilla!!

I run Mandrake 10pp and it comes with java and flash installed, but I noticed there is a Java extension on out there.

-TN

and it doesn't have a name change!

If you get desperate for a name change 'fix' there's always Firesomething (as mentioned here only last week - I think)...

Shockwave doesn't seem to have a problem getting the flash player installed on damn near every computer all on their own.

The only reason I have Flash installed on my computer is because the latest Firefox builds have a very handy Flash Click To View extension (Thanks Ted!) allowing me to choose when flash will run! Before that, if a web site had a flash intro page without a "Skip Intro" link, or a menu system that required Flash, my fingers just browsed on over to someone else's site.

FYI - If you are using Firefox you can download tabbrowser extensions that allow you to reorder your tabs. The extension site seems to be broken right now, but here is the link...

Scroll down and look for "Tabbrowser extensions"

This functionality is already available as an extension to Firefox. The Flash Click to View extension replaces an annoying Flash ad with (what else?) a button that says "flash - click to view". Smoother than a butter statue.

adblock.html

Plus install a proxy server like privoxy and be done with Ads for ever.

Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox have a nifty browser extension called AdBlock.

Use that and you never have to see another ad again on your web page. Plus built in popup blocking. When I uses someone elses PC and use IE, I can't help but to feel bad for them :-)

They're probably the only thing keeping me from switching to Firefox.

Ah, but I use mouse gestures with Firefox every day! There are extensions that add this funcionality. Go to http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/ and look at the "Mouse gestures" section. I personally use Radial Context -- it's basically mouse gestures w/ a GUI that helps you remember little-used commands.

And not to mention with the great number of choices of thunderbird's extensions
including an excellent Calendar extension compatible with iCal, makes thunderbird a good replacement for Outlook and OE.

And for more fun, read your mail and news with Thunderbird. It's faster, too.

And for more fun, read your mail and news with Thunderbird. It's faster, too.

You still see ads? How retro. Friend, it's time to get your adblock on.

How did you get safari to block to ads for slashdot?

You can use a style sheet like this, just copy&paste that into a file and select it from preferences->advanced->style sheet. Works well and no extra hacks required.

I've found that most folks like to be told how to make their computers more secure and decrease their chances of infection/spyware...

I have made it standard practice to install 3 applications on all Windoze machines that I fix anything on...

1) Install Avast! Home Edition and set it to do automatic updates of both the Core Program and Virus Database. Because most people don't pay for Anti-Virus upgrades after their free trial version runs out...not to mention the fact that Avast! is better than Norton and most for-pay AV apps anyhow...

2) Install Spybot Search & Destroy and make sure that the primary user(s) see what the result of the initial scan is (shock value) with instructions on how to use the app...

3) Install FireFox (no link needed) with the follofing userContent.css...

If they still insist on using IE I will install Google Toolbar and enable popup blocking...

I then proceed to replace any spyware apps with free non-spyware apps (WeatherBug -> Weather Pulse, etc)

As for a firewall, I talked most into buying a wireless router (generally a cheap 802.11b router) to use as a firewall and future network upgrades. I don't think any windoze software firewalls are very good...IPTables is about the ONLY software firewall that I trust...

After doing this, I find that these systems stay fairly clean and have much fewer problems. Not to mention the owners of said machines tend to be much happier afterward.

Here you go!

In addition to AdBlock (and Flash click-to-view, which someone mentioned further down the page), take a look at the adblocking CSS on texturizer.net. It really does an amazing job of killing just ads (including all the ads on Slashdot-- I'm not going to click them anyway, so I don't want to see them.)

In addition to AdBlock (and Flash click-to-view, which someone mentioned further down the page), take a look at the adblocking CSS on texturizer.net. It really does an amazing job of killing just ads (including all the ads on Slashdot-- I'm not going to click them anyway, so I don't want to see them.)

Try the Flash Click To View and Adblock extensions.

Try the Flash Click To View and Adblock extensions.

Using mozilla firefox with the adblock plugin, I have been almost completely spyware-free. If you use wildcards properly (like *.doubleclick.net/*) you can block all ads, cookies and scripts from adservers or directories. Once you have a sizeable list, you won't get anymore nasties invading your system, and pages will load much faster.

Use Flash Click to Play with mozilla firefox. Then you can just click on the flash navbar placeholder if you need it back.

Not quite per-site blocking, but Flash Click to View for Mozilla may be of interest to you.

I can agree with you there. Macromedia totally half-assed their Linux plugin. One way to watch flash animations bearably (although a little tedious) is to download this extension for Firefox and set it to overlay Flash animations. Then, when you open a page with animation (like a web cartoon), click the "Adblock" tab. Copy the URL to the flash to your clipboard, and open the Windows Standalone Player (which seems to work flawlessly in Wine, outside of some small clipboard glitches). Press Ctrl+O, and paste the URL into the open dialog. The flash plays fine then.

It's actually pretty easy to filter if you're up and running with Firefox.

Behold!

Firstly, Anandtech uses flash for its images so that people w/o the plugin can't see the data. This forces you to install it, so that you can see their OTHER Flash pieces... ads.

Get flashclick. You can then install the flash plugin, and you'll have to click on the flash areas to download/run it. Now you can look at the sites which really need it, while still avoiding the flash ads. Very, very nice.

Anandtech uses flash for its images so that people w/o the plugin can't see the data.

In my opinion that's a pretty lame tactic. I don't mind banner ads, but animated, noisy Flash advertisements are where I draw the line. Good thing there's Firefox's Flash click-to-view plugin!

Sounds like you could use The Tabbrowser extension for firefox

You are aware of the Flash Click to View plugin?

No I was not.. Thank you so much for the link. That's exactly what I meant.

You'll be wanting the flash click to play extension, puts a big ugly box where teh flash should go until you tell it to play. clicky
I find it works best with the ad blocking stuff running as well, that way half the flash ads are already blocked.

You are aware of the Flash Click to View plugin? Great at keeping those flash ads at bay :)

I've been using Adblock, a Firefox Extension, for some time now. It lets you set custom filters for a variety of page elements. The ability to automatically block all Flash(or images) from a given server means that I never have to see the same annoying ad animation twice. Give it a try... it's very nice to have all of the benefits of Flash with none of the problems.

I just use the RSS Reader Panel for Firefox.

No, you can always block it with Adblock and Flash Click to view Extensions in Mozilla/Firefox/Name of the week

No, you can always block it with Adblock and Flash Click to view Extensions in Mozilla/Firefox/Name of the week

One, you could pass it as part of the URL (i.e. using GET) in your book mark. Like this.

Two, you could roll a search engine plug-in and pass the limiter as part of the form (i.e. using PUT) with <input type="hidden" ..., or add it to an existing plug-in.

Or, three, you could make your own extensions to the tool bar of the browser, if there isn't already one to do the trick.

Thanks for trying out Firefox!

A tip that may prove helpful:
Try using a UserContent.css file to block ads in any CSS-compliant browser. (i.e. any modern browser except IE). I know that this doesn't work for all ads, but it works for many. Also, a personal proxy, I hear, does an excellent job of blocking ads, which I think you'd agree are the majority of the annoying animated things. Hopefully more complete ad-blocking will come to Firefox soon. I'm pretty sure Mozilla proper does have more ad-blocking already implemented, so we'll see.