Art Alexion on 19 Mar 2007 19:45:12 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Firefox & YouTube


On Monday 19 March 2007 10:00, Greg Lopp wrote:
> I've become a big fan of the FlashBlock addon/extension.  It blocks all
> flash animations from starting until you actively click on them.
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/433/
>
> Appearently you can setup a whitelist that will allow certain sites to
> load.  There is not a blacklist, so you couldn't block only YouTube....you
> block everything.

Perfect.  What I wanted to do was to block embedded youtube flash objects from 
other web pages, while retaining the ability to view individual videos on 
demand.

My problem was that some pages seem to have a dozen of these things embedded 
and it slows everything.

Flashblock works great.

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