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Well, Tony,

That sounds great in theory. But there's been a problem with that. Please read this story:

Fred, WB4AEJ

Off topic.

As qrz.com has animated graphic ads I avoid visiting that site at all costs. If I have to I move the animated grahics to the left hand side of the screen so they aren't visible.

I've already expressed my displeasure via email. The web site owners response is "The companies that place the ads like them" No problem. I just won't visit.

I've been unable to find a Firefox addin that would "freeze" the animated graphics. I don't even know if that would be technically possible.

Tony

I recommend NoScript for Firefox. You won't believe you ever got along without it.

Bill Horne Moderator

I highly recommend FlashBlock for blocking flash-based ads. For the ones that use animated GIFs, there's a Firefox setting that will cause it to only cycle once:

In the URL (address) field, enter about:config Find the image.animation_mode preference name Double-click on it to change the string value to none or once Close the about:config page/tab

john-

This _doesn't_ require an add-in.

Type About:config in the Location Bar, and hit enter. Click the "I'll be careful" button. search for "image.animation_mode" change the value to "none".

This kills all animations.

On any given web-page, after it has loaded, simply hitting the [ESC] key,

see for all the gory details.

Didn't stop the animations on qrz.com in firefox 3.0.3 on win2k

Michael

Works like a charm with 3.5.7 on the home page for that site.

BTW, 3.5 is only about 3 times faster than 3.0, and 3.6 is another 20% faster than 3.5.

But is it 100% HTML compliant? Previous FF I've tested were not and only Opera and Safari were/are.

For info about browser compliance:

To test browser compliance:

For web page compliance:

"Immaterial and Irrelevant", to someone who is -already- using it.

You haven't tested Lynx, have you? Lynx was W3C-compliant before Opera or Safari were even design concepts. :)

Not if it fails. Earlier FF 3.* failed and I haven't bothered again with 3.* until I hear otherwise.

Lynx is text-only. I used it circa early 1990s but now I use it only to determine a site's web server info per:

$ lynx -head

$ wget -S --spider

Also use AdblockPlus, all of these things really clean up annoying web sites.

-- Regards, David.

David Clayton Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a measure of how many questions you have.

And if I might, Flashblock too. A lot of little nasties are being encoded in flash these days.

Fortunately that is not a big concern for those of us using a far more resilient platform - Linux. If I was a Windows user I'm not even sure I'd want to be online these days.......

- - Regards, David.

David Clayton Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a measure of how many questions you have.

Now, here's a guy who "walks the walk" -

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