Topic: Flash Urls

[Reno]

Is there a way to grab flash object urls easily in Firefox? Lately the majority of ads ive been coming across are flash based and I want to be able to adblock the url of the host they're being hosted from. Is there an extension or addon that FF has for this sort of deal?

[Clive]

Simon is the firefox extension junkie and he's back from holiday  tomorrow.   

[Simon]

That could be a bit of a challenge.  The add-on linked to below, works the opposite way round, in that it blocks all Flash objects, with the ability to add those you want to see to a white-list by right-clicking.  Not quite what you wanted, Bob, but can't find anything else at the moment.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433

[Reno]

I found a way to do it in a round about way. I was using adblock. It turns out the people that made adblock stopped updating it. So some other fellows took up the torch and created adblock plus. I installed it and it gives a little tab above any embedded flash object giving you the option to block the files domain. It also added a ton of domains of ad sites to my block lists in its initial update.

I haven't seen an ad banner or flash ad in a week in a half. Whats really cool is when you go to the addon options it gives a tally of how many hits by each domain its blocked since you added that domain to the list. Its amazing how often they try and flash you with those things while surfing. Since i enabled ABP one of them had already tallied over 900 hits. 50 on this one, 50 on that one, all add up to alot of little annoying ads and a really crummy online experience.

[Simon]

I have to admit, I don't have any ad blockers on board, and hardly every notice banners or flash ads, but it is annoying when a web page refuses to load properly, due to waiting for a server for one of the ads.