Moving images in Win Explorer and FireFox - a nuisance

[Seum]

Hello again Experts.

I'm here again to keep you out of mischief ;-)

When I am trying to focus on things that need urgent attention, I find
the moving images in WinExplorer or FFox are greatly annoying.

Does anyone know how to stop them or even to block them out unless
I want to see some of them.

TIA and do have a great weekend

Seum.

 

[Twayne]

In

Hello again Experts.

I'm here again to keep you out of mischief ;-)

When I am trying to focus on things that need urgent
attention, I find the moving images in WinExplorer or
FFox are greatly annoying.
Does anyone know how to stop them or even to block them
out unless I want to see some of them.

TIA and do have a great weekend

Seum.

There are a couple things you can do and others will probably chime in, too.
I assume by "winexplorer" you meant internet explorer (IE)? I ask because
you also mention FF, another browser.

1. Go to 'net options from IE, the Advanced Tab IIRC. Look for "Show Picture
Placeholders" and turn them on. Now all you'll see is a placeholder for the
image, not the image. You also won't waste time downloading them.
Alt-Shift-H will turn the images back on temporarlly. You can also Expand
ALT text for images and see a text descrption of what the unshown image is,
if the author has properly designed their site. Many don't but many do also.

2. Read everything in Plain Text; images won't show unless you Alt-Shft-H
for them. You might also see a yellow bar that would download all the
pictures if you were to use it.

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[Seum]

In

There are a couple things you can do and others will probably chime in, too.
I assume by "winexplorer" you meant internet explorer (IE)? I ask because
you also mention FF, another browser.

1. Go to 'net options from IE, the Advanced Tab IIRC. Look for "Show Picture
Placeholders" and turn them on. Now all you'll see is a placeholder for the
image, not the image. You also won't waste time downloading them.
Alt-Shift-H will turn the images back on temporarlly. You can also Expand
ALT text for images and see a text descrption of what the unshown image is,
if the author has properly designed their site. Many don't but many do also.

2. Read everything in Plain Text; images won't show unless you Alt-Shft-H
for them. You might also see a yellow bar that would download all the
pictures if you were to use it.

HTH,

Twayne`

Thank you Dwayne.

Yes, I do sometimes mix up the two Explorers. Have to take a course soon

Great job that worked like a charm

Hope you're enjoying the weekend.

Thanks again.

Seum

 

[Clog_-_wog (®)]

Hello again Experts.

I'm here again to keep you out of mischief ;-)

When I am trying to focus on things that need urgent attention, I find the
moving images in WinExplorer or FFox are greatly annoying.

Does anyone know how to stop them or even to block them out unless
I want to see some of them.

TIA and do have a great weekend

Seum.

Hit the ESC key on your keyboard.
To block GIF animations in Firefox - Type about:config and change the value
of string image.animation_mode from normal to none.
In Internet Explorer - Tools -> Options -> Advance. Uncheck the box in
Multimedia group that says "Play animations in web pages"
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-to-stop-gif-image-animations-from.html

 

[Seum]

Not sure how to do it in Internet Explorer as I hardly use it now for
browing, but in FireFox, I have great success in controlling most of my
irritations with the following add-ons (Flashblock, NoScript and Adblock
Plus iin particular)

Adblock Plus

BetterPrivacy

Flashblock

NoScript

Ghostery

Thank you Clog_ and Disb_

I did manage to get both done but, where the images were, there are just
white spaces. The border markings of the images disappeared and the
pages look very odd. Maybe there is a way to retain the images but keep
their movements DEAD!

 

[Clog_-_wog (®)]

Thank you Clog_ and Disb_

I did manage to get both done but, where the images were, there are just
white spaces. The border markings of the images disappeared and the pages
look very odd. Maybe there is a way to retain the images but keep their
movements DEAD!

Hit the ESC key on your keyboard in IE, (FF don't know if that works)

 

[Clog_-_wog (®)]

Thank you Clog_ and Disb_

I did manage to get both done but, where the images were, there are just
white spaces. The border markings of the images disappeared and the pages
look very odd. Maybe there is a way to retain the images but keep their
movements DEAD!

Hit the ESC key on your keyboard in IE, (FF don't know if that works)

 

[Clogwog]

Thank you Clog_ and Disb_

I did manage to get both done but, where the images were, there are just
white spaces. The border markings of the images disappeared and the pages
look very odd. Maybe there is a way to retain the images but keep their
movements DEAD!

Hit the ESC key on your keyboard in IE to stop animated gif images, (FF?,
don't know if that works)
When they are flash based, they are unstoppable, unless you uninstall flash
(not advisable, cos your YouTube goes dead too, among others)

 

[Char Jackson]

Hit the ESC key on your keyboard in IE to stop animated gif images, (FF?,
don't know if that works)
When they are flash based, they are unstoppable, unless you uninstall flash
(not advisable, cos your YouTube goes dead too, among others)

AdBlock Plus to the rescue...

 

[Seum]

AdBlock Plus to the rescue...

Yea, when you find a sledge to whack that .xpi away.

 

[Clogwog]

AdBlock Plus to the rescue...

Yea, for every little "nuisance" another add-on for FF, not surprising FF is
so slow!

 

[Char Jackson]

Yea, when you find a sledge to whack that .xpi away.

Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying.

My comment regarding ABP was in response to the "unstoppable" claim.
ABP stops those things just fine, with the caveat that you have to
stop each one individually. I find that it works great/best on pages
that I visit frequently.

 

[Char Jackson]

Yea, for every little "nuisance" another add-on for FF, not surprising FF is
so slow!

I only run a few add-ons, but AdBlock Plus is one of my must-haves.
Rather than slow the browser down, it wouldn't surprise me if ABP
actually speeded things up since it bypasses the lookup, retrieval,
and display of ads and other page elements that I find objectionable.