Adblock and Flash player 9

[DavidAB]

Adblock Plus 0.7.2.4 doesn't seem to work by right-clicking on Flash payer 9 banners. Is there an update or is there something I'm doing wrong?

[rick752]

You have to go into Adblock Plus' options and turn on "Show tabs on flash and java". It will present you with a tab on the flash item. Click it to block it.

Welcome David AB

[DavidAB]

Thanks for the info.

Is there any way I can block flash items without having an ugly tab on all the flash items? I go to a lot of design oriented sites so don't want to block most flash items or have anything visually affecting the design just sometimes want to block some particularly annoying advertisements on some commercial sites.

[chewey]

Is there any way I can block flash items without having an ugly tab on all the flash items?

You can open the "blockable elements" list, sort by element type by clicking on the top of the column and
then look for elements of type object - in most cases, the one one wants to block is easy to spot.

[Wladimir Palant]

http://adblockplus.org/en/faq_basics#objects actually...

[rick752]

You can open the "blockable elements" list, sort by element type by clicking on the top of the column and
then look for elements of type object - in most cases, the one one wants to block is easy to spot.

That's usually the way I find them too.

[sheepy]

Me too. Ctrl+Shift+B and they are all there to be killed.

[DavidAB]

OK, sounds more tedious to block them than to leave them in that case. I guess its because flash has its own right click menu that you can't do it the simple way that its done for images?

[Wladimir Palant]

Yes.