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Originally Posted by Dusty Bottoms
Those blinky avatars drive me insane! (which is a very short trip)  |
I use adblock plugin for my Firefox.
When I see an avatar that I really, really dislike, I right-click on it and select "block this image".
That is it. No more super annoying animated images to distract my eyes reading interesting thread.
You can do the same with unwanted pictures in a sig.
If you dislike a long text someone has in his sig, and you do not want to disable all signatures, have a look at the software called Privoxy.
Privoxy is a proxy server that sits on your PC and all html traffic from your browser is routed through the Privoxy. You can configure Privoxy to change certain text on pages, block images of certain sizes, unanimate animated gifs, you can let animated gifs to make just ONE animation instead of a loop animation. You can scrub out almost anything. Privoxy supports interesting configuration options based on Regular Expressions. Really powerful stuff.
I used to use Privoxy long time ago, before there was Adblock (not as configurable, but I am lazy and Adblock works good enough).
You can also use UserContent.css mechanism on all browsers that are based on mozilla engine to do very interesting things, including scrubbing out images, advertisment, formatting or other unwanted elements.