On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:02:18 -0500, Mike Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:45:49AM -0600, Tommy Trussell wrote: > > Frustratingly, I have somehow enabled flash advertising (on web pages > > like http://www.economist.com/ ), which REALLY bogs down this 266 Mhz > > PowerBook! > > Here's a tip: get the adblocker plugin and add filters for any sites > with troublesome flash. eg http://www.economist.com/*swf (or just > their ad server or ad directory if it's that easy with their site > to get rid of all the ads).
I was finally able to install the adblock extension (not plugin). On the Economist site, putting *doubleclick* into the adblock settings completely removed the annoying images. However now the firefox performance has tanked even in gmail... so I'll need to adjust things a bit more. Thank you for the suggestion!
