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thatcrazycajunMuchas gracias to autographedcat for pointing me in the direction of a nifty little Firefox add-on called NoScript. If you use Firefox and aren't using NoScript with it yet, run—don't walk to the above linked site and get it now. It blocks websites you visit from running JavaScript code on your machine and shows a bar at the base of your browser window which gives you the opportunity to "whitelist" sites you want to allow JavaScript for. And it works on all operating systems Firefox supports.
Besides preventing scriptkiddies with malicious exploits from taking over your 'puter, one feature that makes it worth having NS all by itself is partial vetting, which lets you allow scripts from the site you're visiting...but not from their commercial partners, who link to it from their own sites elsewhere. This has the effect of blocking most ads that are not hosted on the actual site in your window. Suh-weet! Oh, and did I mention it's absolutely free?
autographedcat for pointing me in the direction of a nifty little Firefox add-on called NoScript. If you use Firefox and aren't using NoScript with it yet, run—don't walk to the above linked site and get it now. It blocks websites you visit from running JavaScript code on your machine and shows a bar at the base of your browser window which gives you the opportunity to "whitelist" sites you want to allow JavaScript for. And it works on all operating systems Firefox supports.Besides preventing scriptkiddies with malicious exploits from taking over your 'puter, one feature that makes it worth having NS all by itself is partial vetting, which lets you allow scripts from the site you're visiting...but not from their commercial partners, who link to it from their own sites elsewhere. This has the effect of blocking most ads that are not hosted on the actual site in your window. Suh-weet! Oh, and did I mention it's absolutely free?
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Date: 2006-10-06 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-06 04:46 pm (UTC)For you both:
You might also want to look into Adblock Plus and Adblock Filterset.G
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1865/ for Adblock Pluss
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1136/ for Filterset.G
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Date: 2006-10-07 02:42 am (UTC)