276322 - Anti-ads blocker improvement

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 94035

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Fred]

It would be nice to have the following:

pop-up blocker was nice, but there is other kinds of annoying things.
Especially, flash content that overlaps a webpage,
banners and similar.

From a given web page right click... select block
and have a list of fetched url domains
and then block such web content.

Blocking specific "script,object,embed,img,a href" section would be nice also.



for instance, http://ads.xxxx.com/ads/content.php?src=...'

Meaning that firefox should not download any content from there, unless 
unblocked from now on, wether it is:
text, flash, images, video, music or anything else.
putting a placeholder download link red box - [blocked]
instead which can be downloaded if you click on it.

For instance, a user might want to see:

http://my.com/content.swf

but not:
http://my.com/banner.swf
http://my.com/intro.wav


It saves some bandwidth on slow connection and it avoids 
seeing unwanted and undesired ads or content.

Of course the block should be sorted by subdomain, path, file, file type.
Even using Regexp blocking would be nice if possible.
Such that one could discriminate at various degree 
globally or only for a given site.

One way before was to not have the flash player, 
but that doesn't always work
since some website really needs flash.

Sincerely yours,
Fred

Comment 1

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

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

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change