Flashblock: the Firefox Add-on to block flash control
Monday, August 4th, 2008 by Agro Rachmatullah
My internet quota is limited so any way to cut down useless usage is helpful. If we talk about flash, there are some websites that genuinely use it for advanced functionality like Wordpress‘ stats system and Google Analytics. However many just use it for bad design and nonessential content which just waste bandwidth.
This is where add-ons like Flashblock comes to play. It lives up to its name: the Mozilla Firefox extension will block flash and replace it with an “f” icon (meaning “**** you” presumably). If we really need the flash content, we can just click on the placeholder.
There’s a whitelist feature which is useful because as I said some websites use flash properly and need it to function. Even the uploader in Wordpress uses flash.