I don't mind ads that are images. Its the flashing that I can't stand. The flashing makes it hard to concentrate. What I really want is to be able to right click over an ad and be able to choose an option called "Stop Animation". Mozilla 1.1 doesn't have this option but it does have another: Right click over a flashing ad and choose the option "Block images from this server". Then reload the page. This just worked to make a flashing ad disappear for me the first time I tried it.
Of course some sites constantly change the ad URLs and have many different servers with different URLs serving ads. So this method is not perfect. But it looks like it can at least reduce the amount of flashing one has to experience.
You can download Mozilla v1.1 here.
Posted by Randall Parker at September 20, 2002 12:55 PMBeter yet, the newest Mozilla let's users choose to allow a flashing ad (which is just an animated gif image) to loop only once, or not at all! Hoo-waa! flashing stopped!
Posted by: Rob on June 22, 2004 03:43 PM