Sick of banner ads?...
Cool, I just learned a new trick and had to share. I'm sick and tired of those damn animated banner ads. At first it was mostly the dancing silhouettes beckoning us to lower our mortgage rates (as if I'm going to trust my home to a website who can't even hire live spokesmodels and is possibly based in a country God-knows-where like Nigeria?) But now it seems every retail company on the planet has jumped on the rotating banner ad bandwagon. It's aggrevating how long I have to wait, since the ad has to load before I can navigate the rest of the web page. I can't even write an email anymore without an ad for Black & Decker drills slowing down my PC to the point of hair-pulling.
So I'd had enough, and Googled how to stop the animated banner ads. What I found was that Mozilla Firefox has an internal setting built in to the browser to adjust the playing of animated ads.
Here's the directions in case y'all are tired of the ads too, taken from the mozillaZine website:
(FYI- I set my browser to play the ads "once", so that I don't accidently block something else on the page that I might need access to like on the college website. And so far it works to stop the ads from playing over and over.)
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The image.animation_mode preference determines how multi-frame GIF images are animated. This preference settings affects GIFs in every kind of displayed content, including web pages, messages and RSS feeds.
You can change this preference setting using any of the usual methods for editing configuration, specifically:
Using about:config
In Mozilla Suite and Firefox:
- In the Location Bar type about:config and hit Enter
- Type "anim" in the Filter field (to quickly find the needed preference) *One note, I had to type "image" to find it)
- Double-click the image.animation_mode line and edit it to one of the following:
- none — will prevent image animation
- once — will let the image animate once
- normal (default) — will allow it to play over and over
8 comments:
I've been using Mozilla Firefox for over a year and just love it. I believe it's faster than Internet Explorer and has no lockups or hangs like IE. j.d.
Yeah a computer geek friend told us to use Firefox because supposedly it has a better defense against viruses etc, hope it's true.
never had any problems with Firefox, my sis in Texas has used it a long time. j.d.
That's cool, in Internet Explorer you have to block images altogether, which is too inconvenient. Google has a new browser, called Chrome I think. It's still in beta, but I think I'm going to try it on my laptop.
Let us know what you think of it Anna after you play with it for a while.
Not liking Chrome so far, not very intuitive. But I did find a way to stop animation in IE without blocking the images. Pages sure load faster!
off topic, has Horse Forum been suspended?? j.d.
Anna- Thanks
JD- yepper it's down
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