Crazy Flash animations are constantly getting in the way of my Internet experience. I once resorted to uninstalling Flash player completely, but I quickly found myself needing Flash to play games and for those stupid web developers that have chosen to make an entire site using Flash without an HTML alternative.

I found an amazing solution that fits my needs perfectly. Using the Block Flash Animations & Advertisements Firefox hack, I can choose when I want to let Flash load in my browser. It turns all Flash animations on a web page into a Click to play link. No more Flash covering what I’m reading. No more obnoxious ads hogging memory. I just click on the Flash animations I wish to see.

All you do is add the following code to your UserContent.css file (create it if it doesn’t exist) in your Firefox Profile folder.

/* Block Flash, using a placeholder you can click to unblock a desired Flash animation. */
/* Doesn’t work for embed tags, which are less common than object tags - bug 190970 */
object[classid$=”:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″],
object[codebase*=”swflash.cab”] {
-moz-binding: url(”http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~jruderma/flash.xml#obj”); }

I love you like a girlfriend Flash, but like a girlfriend, you’re annoying and always interrupt my web porn hour.