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Sam · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 8567

Fun things to help your forum experience!

Adblock: Install it on firefox, it's about the most useful utility out there.

Once you have it installed, you can right click on any image and block it from the source. Your browser will then not display that image again.

I consider it particularly useful for things like these:

1. Someone's got an avatar that stretches the page format. Too big? Too stupid? Nuke it, and the sidebar goes back down to normal size.

2. Someone has a really big signature that, in the end, you only really needed to see once.

3. Someone has an animated signature that, in the end, you only really needed to see for five seconds.

4. Crapflooding (originally the reason for this post's importance, but it's been handled). Say you're browsing at work, and whoops someone's posting pictures of rectal lice all over the place -- adblock helps that out a bit, since you can just kill the spammed pictures and not have to worry about them again.

5. Someone posts a really long or big picture that stretches the page, or posts a series of pictures without breaks that stretch the page. Instant fix.

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Other helpful shit:

Greasemonkey, if you're arsed to figure out how it works, can block whole posters. Like, whoosh, the posts vanish. Omg.

Mystery Poster Al contributes:

Major Tom · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 7561

thanks Tat
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Uncle Benny · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 8124

yes, tat, thank you.

Natashabi · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 390 Location: Tejas

*confused*

Doesn't that say Sam?

Uncle Benny · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 8124

instead of having to block tatyana, tat went ahead and just deleted her/he/it's posts.

muchly appreciated.

Natashabi · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 390 Location: Tejas

Why, yes, that is very much appreciated!

Thank you so much!

I had already blocked them, so I didn't notice!

Thank you for bringing it to my attention Very Happy

Sam · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 8567

Oh, yay. That sort of makes the tatyana info useless. Gladly useless. So I can happily dispose of it.

JohnnyStrider · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:42 am Post subject:

Tat: Once again swooping down from his secluded jungle layer to correct the world.

I just hope we don't get too reliant on that.

Natashabi · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 390 Location: Tejas

Well... if he disappears again, there's always adblock.

I think this Topic is still useful, even though Tat got rid of the worst of our issues.

Dusty · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 648

haha i had adblock installed and didnt know how to use it until now.

mota · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 15

I can never seem to get my Adblock to work. Atleast not with this enlish firefox version.
It's installed, but it's simply not working. Ideas? I've spotted annoying things allready.

Willem · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 6301 Location: wasteland style

I use Greasemonkey. It can block posters. And it does.
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Thy Brilliance · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 3090 Location: Relative

I BLOCK POSTS WITH SHEER MIND POWER!!!!!!

Al · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 3

Filterset.g is an addon for an addon and blocks common sucky things like advert sites that never load because they exceeded their bandwith because they weren't ready for this kind of business and thus stop the rest of the page you're trying to get to from loading too.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1136/

Mystery poster awayyy!!!

Natashabi · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 390 Location: Tejas

Is there a way to access a list of your blocked images/sites? I can't find it in firefox help and I sort of accidentally blocked the wrong thing. I was on a pic blocking blitz (without the heavy military equipment).