Re: Image Blocker Plug-in like Adblock for Mozilla FireFox?

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From: siljaline (siljaline_at_nospam.com)
Date: 01/09/05


Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 01:06:42 -0500


" -" wrote:
>I have been trying out the FireFox browser and one really neat feature is a
> plug-in called Adblock that lets you right click on an advert. image on
> webpage and then set it to block future downloading of images from that
> server. You can set it just for that image or for all files from that
> server. You can even use wildcards like *doubleclick* to not download
> anything from servers with doubleclick anywhere in the address. To me, this
> is different than a popup blocker (which SP2 has anyway). It really speeds
> up loading of webpages since it isn't downloading the ads. Is there
> anything like this for Internet Explorer? I have searched but only found
> popup blockers.

Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File;
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Silj

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