129460 - RFE: ability to block Flash animations etc, in addition to images

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 94035

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Graham]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020302
BuildID:    2002030208

Mozilla's image blocking feature ROCKS. I love being able to browse the
web without having to look at advertisements everywhere I go.

However, there are two limitations to the current system which make me unable to
completely block all advertising. I think the first one would be reasonably easy
to tackle.

1) Flash animations. Look at http://www.tomshardware.com/   -- sure I can block
www.ad.tomshardware.com etc., and this kills some of the ads, but certainly not
all of them. The Flash animations still load and play. Could Mozilla possibly
block all *media* from certain servers, rather than just images?

The second one looks like a bit more work... and may be deserving of its own bug...

2) More powerful URL filtering. Rather than saying "block everything from
www.foo.com", I'd like to be able to say "don't load any media whose URL begins
with www.foo.com/cgi-bin/ad.cgi" (for example).

I understand and agree that you people have more important things to work on
than new features, at least for now -- but maybe this could appear in a future
version, after appropriate discussion of exactly what should be implemented has
taken place...

Comment 1

[Michael Lefevre]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70805 ***

Comment 2

[Matt Perry]

Verified dupe

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94035 ***