How to block flickering of ads in Chrome?

[Loonie]

I recently "adopted" Chrome but the flickering ads bug me.
I looked through most of the program but I can't find a place
to block that flickering.

I looked through the Options

Basics
Personal Stuff
Under the Hood.

and found no suggestion for shutting off the nuisance flickering.

Help appreciated

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I recently "adopted" Chrome but the flickering ads bug me.
I looked through most of the program but I can't find a place
to block that flickering.

I looked through the Options

Basics
Personal Stuff
Under the Hood.

and found no suggestion for shutting off the nuisance flickering.

Help appreciated

Do all the ads flicker, or just those on a couple of sites?

If the later, avoid those sites

Chrome doesn't match my style, so I am not knowledgeable about it, but I
answered anyway, since I believe it is the site which determines how the
adds look. I know, because I've used it (briefly!), that there is HTML
to create flashing text.

 

[Bob I]

You don't "block flickering", you "block ads"

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

You don't "block flickering", you "block ads"

That is clearly a better reply than mine. I was thinking of sites
instead of ads, but that isn't what Loonie said

Still, we are in fundamental agreement, that the problem is in the data,
not in the browser.

BTW, after I sent my post, I thought a bit further and thought that
better advice might have been to suppress JavaScript, but that creates
other problems, in that some sites don't work right.

 

[Char Jackson]

I recently "adopted" Chrome but the flickering ads bug me.
I looked through most of the program but I can't find a place
to block that flickering.

I looked through the Options

Basics
Personal Stuff
Under the Hood.

and found no suggestion for shutting off the nuisance flickering.

Help appreciated

I don't know what you mean by "flickering", so I'll just pass along
some general guidance on removing ads entirely.

<http://lifehacker.com/5046529/how-to-block-ads-in-google-chrome>

Quoting from that link, "One of the biggest reasons most Windows users
are sticking with Firefox over Google Chrome is its extensibility—and
the most popular Firefox extension by far among Lifehacker readers is
Adblock Plus."

With that in mind, I definitely recommend Firefox with the AdBlock
Plus extension, but if you must use Chrome then consider following the
Privoxy advice in the article linked above. Let us know how well it
works.

 

[Char Jackson]

I don't know what you mean by "flickering", so I'll just pass along
some general guidance on removing ads entirely.

<http://lifehacker.com/5046529/how-to-block-ads-in-google-chrome>

Quoting from that link, "One of the biggest reasons most Windows users
are sticking with Firefox over Google Chrome is its extensibility—and
the most popular Firefox extension by far among Lifehacker readers is
Adblock Plus."

With that in mind, I definitely recommend Firefox with the AdBlock
Plus extension, but if you must use Chrome then consider following the
Privoxy advice in the article linked above. Let us know how well it
works.

Addendum: Looks like AdBlock Plus is now available for Chrome!

<http://adblockplus.org/en/chrome>

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I don't know what you mean by "flickering", so I'll just pass along
some general guidance on removing ads entirely.

<http://lifehacker.com/5046529/how-to-block-ads-in-google-chrome>

Quoting from that link, "One of the biggest reasons most Windows users
are sticking with Firefox over Google Chrome is its extensibility—and
the most popular Firefox extension by far among Lifehacker readers is
Adblock Plus."

With that in mind, I definitely recommend Firefox with the AdBlock
Plus extension, but if you must use Chrome then consider following the
Privoxy advice in the article linked above. Let us know how well it
works.

Interesting sidelight: I clicked on your link and nothing happened. I
did it ten more times and still nothing happened (OK, only twice more!).

As a first check, I copied the link *without* the angle brackets and
pasted it into my browser's address bar and it worked fine.

I then tried it in MesNews to see if might be Dialog. All MesNews did
was say "Dink" and there too, the link didn't open. I did it again,
because I liked the sound

 

[Ken Blake]

Quoting from that link, "One of the biggest reasons most Windows users
are sticking with Firefox over Google Chrome is its extensibility—and
the most popular Firefox extension by far among Lifehacker readers is
Adblock Plus."

A very inaccurate sentence: most Windows users, by far, use Internet
Explorer. Many of them don't even know there are other choices.

Personally I use neither IE, Firefox, nor Chrome. I greater prefer
Maxthon to all of them.

 

[Char Jackson]

A very inaccurate sentence: most Windows users, by far, use Internet
Explorer. Many of them don't even know there are other choices.

I believe the quote is comparing Firefox and Chrome, not Firefox
versus everything else, so in that respect it's accurate. However, the
trend lines for those two browsers seem to be heading toward eventual
intersection, according to this chart:

Personally I use neither IE, Firefox, nor Chrome. I greater prefer
Maxthon to all of them.

I haven't tried Maxthon. It's tied a little too closely to IE for me
so I'm sticking with Firefox for now.

 

[Char Jackson]

Interesting sidelight: I clicked on your link and nothing happened. I
did it ten more times and still nothing happened (OK, only twice more!).

As a first check, I copied the link *without* the angle brackets and
pasted it into my browser's address bar and it worked fine.

I then tried it in MesNews to see if might be Dialog. All MesNews did
was say "Dink" and there too, the link didn't open. I did it again,
because I liked the sound

Sorry, I can't imagine what you must have done with your browsers to
break such a basic bit of functionality. Perhaps someone will chine in
with a fix. Could it be as simple as a PC reboot?

 

[Char Jackson]

Sorry, I can't imagine what you must have done with your browsers to
break such a basic bit of functionality. Perhaps someone will chine in
with a fix. Could it be as simple as a PC reboot?

Chine, chime, whatever...

 

[Paul]

I recently "adopted" Chrome but the flickering ads bug me.
I looked through most of the program but I can't find a place
to block that flickering.

I looked through the Options

Basics
Personal Stuff
Under the Hood.

and found no suggestion for shutting off the nuisance flickering.

Help appreciated

It's a target rich environment.

"Flash Video Flickers"
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=0fc7f8ce39ad76d3&hl=en

Change browsers ?

If you love suffering, I suppose you could try installing older
versions of Flash, and see if the behavior stops. The question
would be, whether it's a Chrome issue or a Flash issue. And Flash
may work OK with some other browser.

There is only one setting of value within Flash itself - namely,
to disable "Hardware Acceleration". In some cases, the Flash
support for a particular video card is bad, in which case disabling
hardware acceleration can help. But in this case, equally well, it
could be a Chrome issue.

Paul

 

[VanguardLH]

I recently "adopted" Chrome but the flickering ads bug me.
I looked through most of the program but I can't find a place
to block that flickering.

I looked through the Options

Basics
Personal Stuff
Under the Hood.

and found no suggestion for shutting off the nuisance flickering.

So have you decided on a nym to stick with yet (Quack or Loonie)?

Do you have some example pages where flickering occurs for you and some
other pages were it doesn't for you? Then others could see what TYPE of
content was being delivered (i.e., Flash , streaming). Are the ads
really "playing" or are you asking about some other streamed content,
like a video?

Is this a clean install of Chrome? Did you install any extensions yet?
Did you see what happens when you temporarily disable your anti-virus
software (and anything else that interrogates or intercepts your web
traffic, like firewalls)?

You adopted Chrome and did so recently. So are we to guess that this
same flickering doesn't occur in your unidentified prior/primary web
browser?

 

[Loonie]

So have you decided on a nym to stick with yet (Quack or Loonie)?

As you have already noticed I am regularly re-born and you were smart to
notice it, VLH. I'll have to resort to Russian, Gaelic, or similar ;-)

Do you have some example pages where flickering occurs for you and some
other pages were it doesn't for you? Then others could see what TYPE of
content was being delivered (i.e., Flash , streaming). Are the ads
really "playing" or are you asking about some other streamed content,
like a video?

There were a lot of squirty movements that I found very distracting. A
stationary picture would not have bothered me. Undoubtedly those jerky
movements were designed to attract attention.

Is this a clean install of Chrome? Did you install any extensions yet?
Did you see what happens when you temporarily disable your anti-virus
software (and anything else that interrogates or intercepts your web
traffic, like firewalls)?

I had no problem installing Chrome. No extensions yet, as far as I could
see. I never fiddle with anti-virus progs. I am quite sure that there is
nothing unusual about the movements - they simply were squirting around
to get attention.

You adopted Chrome and did so recently. So are we to guess that this
same flickering doesn't occur in your unidentified prior/primary web
browser?

This one seems to squirt around much more often than Firefox, which I
have dumped, and with pleasure, for its introduction of crap progs.

Finally VLH, thank you for solving my Fax and Scan prog. I could not
have found it without you. After a couple of hours of work at Micro****
I still hadn't found your solution. I suggest you go to Micro****, teach
them, and then take over the place.

 

[Loonie]

It's a target rich environment.

"Flash Video Flickers"
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=0fc7f8ce39ad76d3&hl=en

I had a look at that but I think the jerky movements were deliberately
intended to attract attention.

Change browsers ?

I have dumped Firefox because it seems that Mozilla now depends on
advertising garbage, like IsoB***** crap in its programs.

If you love suffering, I suppose you could try installing older
versions of Flash, and see if the behavior stops. The question
would be, whether it's a Chrome issue or a Flash issue. And Flash
may work OK with some other browser.

Chrome I am now using and, apart from the distraction of the jerkiness,
I like it. Flash I have never used. I must be Rip Van Winkle II.

There is only one setting of value within Flash itself - namely,
to disable "Hardware Acceleration". In some cases, the Flash
support for a particular video card is bad, in which case disabling
hardware acceleration can help. But in this case, equally well, it
could be a Chrome issue.

I just searched for Flash and there are so many of them, it is hard to
tell which is which.

 

[Loonie]

I believe the quote is comparing Firefox and Chrome, not Firefox
versus everything else, so in that respect it's accurate. However, the
trend lines for those two browsers seem to be heading toward eventual
intersection, according to this chart:



I haven't tried Maxthon. It's tied a little too closely to IE for me
so I'm sticking with Firefox for now.

.......and don't forget to keep an eye out for IsoCrap.

 

[Paul]

I had a look at that but I think the jerky movements were deliberately
intended to attract attention.


I have dumped Firefox because it seems that Mozilla now depends on
advertising garbage, like IsoB***** crap in its programs.


Chrome I am now using and, apart from the distraction of the jerkiness,
I like it. Flash I have never used. I must be Rip Van Winkle II.


I just searched for Flash and there are so many of them, it is hard to
tell which is which.

This is where Flash comes from. It installs plugins, in either ActiveX
browsers (Internet Explorer) or Netscape family browsers (like Firefox,
with plugins). Adobe loves to do web installs, so they try to install
"live" in the browser.

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

If you wanted standalone (binary executable) installers, they're archived
on here. This is what I use. You have to know which folder to look in,
and which executable to grab, to do the install. The downloads I use, are
half way down this page.

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14266.html

If I look in my Add/Remove Programs (on my WinXP machine), I see an
entry for "Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX", which tells me I've only
installed the plugin that makes Flash work in Internet Explorer. That
way, I'm not seeing any Flash content in Firefox at the moment. I could
also uninstall it from there if I wanted (so that neither browser would
have Flash).

*******

The following assumes Flash is installed, and some web page is showing
Flash movies (like say, Youtube or cnn.com).

If you right-click in an Adobe Flash window pane, you'll get a tiny dialog.

http://cdn.windows7themes.net/pics/flash-enable-hardware-acceleration.jpg

If you get to the correct tab there, it'll show the hardware acceleration tick
box. You can turn off hardware acceleration there, and see if the symptoms
change at all. That's the only setting that makes an appreciable difference.

HTH,
Paul

 

[Char Jackson]

......and don't forget to keep an eye out for IsoCrap.

No need to keep a special eye out for IsoBuster, if that's what you
meant. My advice is to only install things that you want to install.
Don't blindly click Next and you'll be fine.

 

[Char Jackson]

I have dumped Firefox because it seems that Mozilla now depends on
advertising garbage, like IsoB***** crap in its programs.

You drove your car through the mud and got it dirty, so you got a new
car? That seems a bit extreme. Just be a bit more careful next time.
Don't blame your software when it's your own fault.

 

[Ken Blake]

I believe the quote is comparing Firefox and Chrome, not Firefox
versus everything else,

Yes, I also assume that was the intent of what was said, but it is not
what was said.

so in that respect it's accurate. However, the
trend lines for those two browsers seem to be heading toward eventual
intersection, according to this chart:



I haven't tried Maxthon. It's tied a little too closely to IE for me
so I'm sticking with Firefox for now.

Maxthon 2 was an interface that ran on top of IE. But Maxthon 3 is
not.