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[misterx]

One of the small joys in life: stomping advertisers with Mozilla:

Right click any image, say "block images from this server". Poof. Advertising from that banner farm server goes away, never to be seen again. If I wanted to, I could define a custom user style sheet, and change any image with common banner dimensions to "display: none;".

Go into "manage cookies", check "Don't allow sites with removed cookies to set future cookies". Then remove all cookies from adclick, servedby, hitbox, coremetrics, adrevolver, etc. Now they aren't tracking me.

Mozilla already blocks popups so effectively, I forget that they used to bother me.

It handles most of my spam filtering needs too.

Gotta love it. :)

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[busychild424.livejournal.com]

I transitioned to Firefox a week or two ago and aside from a couple little minor quirks, I'm digging it.

It doesn't really support the Yahoo toolbar very well, which I used to use for portable bookmarks... not a really big deal.

It doesn't support the DHTML popup menus we use on the back end of our e-commerce site - I can still use IE for that since I know I'm not getting cookies or ads or popups from that particular location. :-)

[misterx.livejournal.com]

I'm willing to bet the DHTML menu is doing a browser detection, and doesn't have an entry for Firefox. I hate that. :)

[busychild424.livejournal.com]

Good thing the developer who made that package works here and will be here tomorrow! I'll make her fitz it.

[dampscribbler.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you! My husband mentioned the advertisement-blocking thing a couple of weeks ago, then I forgot how to do it before I ever applied the knowledge. I'll do a bit of squashing, this morning.

I didn't even know there was a "manage cookies." How cool.