A combination of three add-ons and a configuration tweak can go a long way toward making the Web a quiet, calm place.
Add-Ons
In the NoScript preferences page, go the Advanced
tab and select Forbid Macromedia Flash
and Forbid other plugins
.
Animated GIFs
Unfortunately, some people still feel the need to put animated GIFs up on their web pages. Fortunately, there’s a hidden configuration option that will let you stop them from playing more than once or from playing at all. Go to about:config and find the image.animation_mode
preference. Set it to once
to let images animate once, or none
to prevent them from animating at all. (Kudos to the mozillaZine article on animated images for documenting this.)
During a discussion with my friend Maciej today, I discovered this comparision of Filterset.G and Easylist (the list that’s built in to Adblock Plus). It looks like the Filterset.G updater is probably unnecessary.
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