Unstoppable videos in web pages?!?!?!?

1) Install FireFox
2) Get the NoScript add-on.

Problem solved.

 

name a website has unstoppable video. I using firefox version 3 and adblocker plguin. Adblocker can block individual video stream without blocking all other stuff you want. I tried noscript and it blocked almost everything and I hate it.

 

I waffled from Opera to Firefox to Chrome and finally back to Firefox.

I'd switch to Firefox if possible.

Adblock Plus is far more effective on Firefox than it is on Chrome. (I can only surmise Google did this deliberately - that's one of the only ways they make money, is through ad's.)

 

I don't mind the ads before the news story because someone's gonna support the site and the story. However, if there's a annoying video playing, I just block it with adblockplus. Also some videos with stop or pause button that don't work, It's faster to block those too rather than wait for the site to stop streaming them.
Edit: For sites that FF won't display properly or won't display at all, I use IE Tab Plus. It uses IE rendering engine but without the IE's security flaws.

 

I too use FF with various plugins (flash/ad/video/tracking blockers) and have had zero issues running a W7 64 system, but I have in the past come across those stupid videos that will stream if you inadvertently mouse over them. Are these loading whether or not you mouse over them?

 

Is this, and related security issues in Chrome also evidence that Google engineers are incompetent?

 

I use an extension for Firefox named "flashblock". 99% of the obnoxious videos I see are using the flash plugin.

It's very easy to right click on the offending video and allow it to play or whitelist it when you want the flash to work. I leave it blocking anything I don't want and allow anything I do.

 

I moved to Chrome from FF a few months ago. Like others, I found that FF is now so bloated it's becoming unusable (never mind IE). I have two (count them: 1, 2!) and only two extensions installed: adblock plus, and ScriptNo...the Chrome equivalent of NoScript.

If I'm on a site and don't see or have access to everything I want, I click on the ScriptNo icon and review what it's blocking. I can then choose the site(s) that I WANT to allow access. You can chose to allow Temporary through Allow, up to Trust (which allows everything in that one domain). I NEVER have unwanted videos start up. I can allow them when/if I chose.

The only thing I dislike about Chrome is that if I have multiple tabs open and click the close-window button, it does so--immediately...FireFox would at least warn me that I was closing multiple tabs.

If I come across a web site I absolutely need to use and Chrome + extensions won't let me, I hold my nose and crank up IE.

 

I used Firefox. It also started going wacky on me, as well as acting so slow due to bloat, so I switched to Chrome. Then THAT started acting wacky, so I switched back to Firefox. By then, they fixed whatever it was that was making it act wacky, and was much faster (not faster than Chrome, but not noticeably slower, either). So Firefox I'm using now.

I'm not knocking Chrome; it's a fine browser. In fact, just about anything that isn't IE is a fine browser.

 

I'm surprised that no one mentioned Opera browser. I only use the Mini Opera on my phone. It seems to work well. Never tried Opera on my PC.

 

No one browser is perfect, and none of them stay the same. The Web is a moving target, and the browsers move with it, or at least try to.

I use Opera on my phone, and Firefox and Chrome on Linux. Mostly I use FF because of the superior plug-ins, but a few sites have issues with FF. Next week it will be different. Like it or not, we have to accept change or go back to newspapers.

Tom

 

Opera is the browser the Wii uses. I tried it on a PC and Mac; it's pretty good, but I'm happy with Firefox and Chrome and see no need to switch.

For my phone I use Safari, and for my iPad I use Atomic Web Browser.

 

I have been using Firefox for years. Which browser is best for any given week depends on an individual definition of best and haven't found any of the other mainstream browsers to have enough of an advantage to switch to them during their week of glory. I have Chrome and Internet Exploder on my system so I can make sure my website views correctly in them but don't usually bother with them except for that. I do have the IE Tab+ add in in FF for the rare site that won't render properly in my FF setup.

 

I've pretty much left the defaults as-is. The major thing I've done is Whitelist MOST (not all!) of the sites I visit normally. Usually banking/credit card sites...Priuschat.

When you whitelist a site, it allows most of the items blocked by default.