"grauzone" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Nick Sabalausky" <[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >>> And, (and here's the real clincher), since I obviously can't enforce >>> proper design on the web, the one thing I *can* do is just simply >>> disable that shit. So I do. And as you can already tell, I'm far from >>> the only one. > > Definitely not. That led to the creation of Firefox extensions like > NoScript. NoScript is one of the most popular extensions, along Adblock > and (like I just found out) Video DownloadHelper to download videos from > sites like YouTube. >
Adblock is essential. Most ads have gotten so completely out-of-hand, I seriously wouldn't even be using the web anymore if it weren't for Adblock. I've been meaning to try NoScript. Currently, I'm using QuickJava, which places a *very* convenient toggle button on the status bar that let's you turn JS on/off. But I've found there are some sites/pages where I need it to be off, and others I need it on, and QuickJava doesn't have a way of saving the settings on a site-by-site or page-by-page basis. So I'm constantly loading a particular page the wrong way. For instance, about half the time that I go to the Tango docs, I forget to turn JS off, and just because of that I have to wait nearly half a minute before I can correct the mistake or even switch to another tab (Why the stop button doesn't work on JS-processing is beyond me...). IIRC, I think NoScript does let you do site-by-site, right? I just hope it plays nice with QuickJava though, (or contains QuickJava-style functionality), because trying to configure sites/pages manually would be a major PITA and possibly not even be worth it. And then there's FlashBlock, which I *would* absolutely love...except it *only* works with JS enabled!!! ^&$&^%^^&!!! And frankly, I just don't have the time to dig into FF extension-writing and do things the way I really want them. But of course, these are all just clumbsy symptom-attacking hacks anyway, not real solutions. Plus there's the issue that the more extentions you're using, the slower FF gets... So at best you're just fixing one problem at the cost of another.
