filtering Flash?

[Michael O'Donnell]

> FWIW, I agree.  I haven't downloaded Mozilla 1.3a yet, since I
> just upgraded to 1.2.1, but I suspect that this is something that
> could be lobbied for.  I'm just worried that there is a lot of
> back-room financial pressure NOT to permit this kind of gratuitous
> user control of one's own computing environment.  Just think of
> all the ads you'd end up not seeing.

FYI, I've been using the Mozilla nightly builds for
a while now (currently 1.3b/20021227) and so far it
seems fine.

It's unreasonable to expect one's WWW browsing to be
a totally ad-free experience - TANSTAAFL.  I can live
with ads on the screen; I've even bought stuff after
an ad piqued my interest (nobody was more surprised
than I!)  My gripe is simply that I lose my mind
after a while if my screen is full of a bunch of
irritating ads that have been twitching convulsively
(and unstoppably) since they first got loaded.
I love the way Mozilla is willing to let you tell it
to cycle an animated GIF through its sequence once
and then just stop.  That's all I ask of Flash.