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I'd like to set Firefox to absolutely ignore any and all embedded sounds,
whether they're played by Firefox or launched to an external player, no
matter, I want all of them blocked permanently. Is it possible?

Take the .mp3 and .wav extensions, for example. When I click Change Action,
I see four choices:

Open them with the default app
Open them with a specified app
Save them to the hard drive
Use a plugin

Why not a choice to simply ignore them? I can choose to "Change" the
action, but I can't see how to delete it! In another area, I can choose to
ignore images or go ahead and display them; why not the same for sounds?

Help appreciated!

J.

Janice P. wrote:
> I'd like to set Firefox to absolutely ignore any and all embedded sounds,
> whether they're played by Firefox or launched to an external player, no
> matter, I want all of them blocked permanently. Is it possible?
>
> Take the .mp3 and .wav extensions, for example. When I click Change Action,
> I see four choices:
>
> Open them with the default app
> Open them with a specified app
> Save them to the hard drive
> Use a plugin
>
> Why not a choice to simply ignore them? I can choose to "Change" the
> action, but I can't see how to delete it! In another area, I can choose to
> ignore images or go ahead and display them; why not the same for sounds?
>
> Help appreciated!
>
> J.
>

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Muting_browser

Lee

On 2006-12-12, Janice P <> wrote:

> I'd like to set Firefox to absolutely ignore any and all embedded sounds,
> whether they're played by Firefox or launched to an external player, no
> matter, I want all of them blocked permanently. Is it possible?
>
> Take the .mp3 and .wav extensions, for example. When I click Change Action,
> I see four choices:
>
> Open them with the default app
> Open them with a specified app
> Save them to the hard drive
> Use a plugin
>
> Why not a choice to simply ignore them? I can choose to "Change" the
> action, but I can't see how to delete it! In another area, I can choose to
> ignore images or go ahead and display them; why not the same for sounds?
>
> Help appreciated!

Turn down the volume on your speakers?

--

John ()

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:40:26 GMT, Leonidas Jones <> posted:

>http://kb.mozillazine.org/Muting_browser

Thank you, Lee. I've installed it but have yet to see if it works since I
haven't come across an embedded sound yet.

To any Firefox developer programmers who may be watching: I think it's
absurd that you offer a choice to disable embedded images, which are almost
always useful and almost never annoying, but don't offer a choice to disable
embedded sounds, which are almost always annoying and almost never useful.

Perhaps absurd is too strong a word. Perhaps it's just an oversight. Would
you add such a choice to a near future release version, please?

On the embedded images topic: I would find most useful an option, not to
exclude images, but to refuse to animate gifs. Just display the first frame
and leave it at that. I have never seen an animated gif that was important
to the content of the page. Never! Well, never that I can think of. Some
were cute in the past, but today they're mostly spam. I would greatly
appreciate the option to shut them up.

Well, I'm on a roll, how about one more: I love the option to block images
from a certain domain. This is one of the friendliest and most thoughtful
things about Firefox, to me. But it could work better:

abc-server.spam.com <--- Blocking that
def-server.spam.com <--- Does not block that.

So all they do is constantly change the "prefix" domain (I can't think of
the correct word here) and I have to keep constantly blocking abc-server
then def-server then ghi-server and so forth. I would like an option to
block the "root" domain (I can't think of the correct word here, either) so
I didn't have to keep getting nagged by their spam. Offer me the choice in
the context menu to block abc-server.spam.com or block spam.com altogether!
Now that would be a helpful new option!

Overall, I love Firefox. Please keep up the good work.

J.

Janice P. wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:40:26 GMT, Leonidas Jones <> posted:
>
>> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Muting_browser
>
> Thank you, Lee. I've installed it but have yet to see if it works since I
> haven't come across an embedded sound yet.
>
> To any Firefox developer programmers who may be watching: I think it's
> absurd that you offer a choice to disable embedded images, which are almost
> always useful and almost never annoying, but don't offer a choice to disable
> embedded sounds, which are almost always annoying and almost never useful.
>
> Perhaps absurd is too strong a word. Perhaps it's just an oversight. Would
> you add such a choice to a near future release version, please?
>
> On the embedded images topic: I would find most useful an option, not to
> exclude images, but to refuse to animate gifs. Just display the first frame
> and leave it at that. I have never seen an animated gif that was important
> to the content of the page. Never! Well, never that I can think of. Some
> were cute in the past, but today they're mostly spam. I would greatly
> appreciate the option to shut them up.
>
> Well, I'm on a roll, how about one more: I love the option to block images
> from a certain domain. This is one of the friendliest and most thoughtful
> things about Firefox, to me. But it could work better:
>
> abc-server.spam.com <--- Blocking that
> def-server.spam.com <--- Does not block that.
>
> So all they do is constantly change the "prefix" domain (I can't think of
> the correct word here) and I have to keep constantly blocking abc-server
> then def-server then ghi-server and so forth. I would like an option to
> block the "root" domain (I can't think of the correct word here, either) so
> I didn't have to keep getting nagged by their spam. Offer me the choice in
> the context menu to block abc-server.spam.com or block spam.com altogether!
> Now that would be a helpful new option!
>
> Overall, I love Firefox. Please keep up the good work.
>
> J.
>

Take a look at AdBlock Plus:

http://adblockplus.org/en/

Lee

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:30:31 -0700, Janice P. wrote:

> To any Firefox developer programmers who may be watching: I think it's
> absurd that you offer a choice to disable embedded images, which are almost
> always useful and almost never annoying, but don't offer a choice to disable
> embedded sounds, which are almost always annoying and almost never useful.

Embedded sounds aren't "almost always annoying and almost never
useful" to everyone so I agree there should be an option to disable
them for those people who do find them annoying.

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:31:42 -0600, John Thompson <>
posted:

>On 2006-12-12, Janice P <> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to set Firefox to absolutely ignore any and all embedded sounds
>>
>Turn down the volume on your speakers?

Of course! I should have thought of that! Why should I listen to music I
love on my $200 sound card when I could simply turn off the speakers and
never have to hear my music interrupted by unwelcome and unexpected spam
ever again!

Thank you for your thoughtful and helpful advice!

http://tinyurl.com/yg6aup

J.

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:37:22 GMT, Leonidas Jones <> posted:

>Take a look at AdBlock Plus:
>
>http://adblockplus.org/en/

I'm looking. Thanks

J.

Janice P. wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:31:42 -0600, John Thompson <>
> posted:
>
>> On 2006-12-12, Janice P <> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to set Firefox to absolutely ignore any and all embedded sounds
>>>
>> Turn down the volume on your speakers?
>
> Of course! I should have thought of that! Why should I listen to music I
> love on my $200 sound card when I could simply turn off the speakers and
> never have to hear my music interrupted by unwelcome and unexpected spam
> ever again!
>
> Thank you for your thoughtful and helpful advice!
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yg6aup
>
> J.
>

Good Lord, why react like that?? It was a perfectly reasonable
suggestion, that many, many people follow. Just because it doesn't work
for you is no reason to go off on John.

Lee

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:31:29 GMT, Leonidas Jones <> posted:

>Good Lord, why react like that??

Must you ask, Lee? Then I'll tell you why: That sarcastic little question
mark at the end, as if to say I was too stupid to have thought of such a
thing. The typing equivalent of adding "Hello? Anyone home? Why don't you
do the OBVIOUS, stupid?"

>It was a perfectly reasonable
>suggestion, that many, many people follow.

How can you be serious?!?!?!! Perfectly reasonable? To simply stop using
sound in my computer, to disable all of the *other* sounds that I welcome,
all the time, just to avoid the spam? Why even have speakers? Why even
have a sound card? Why don't I just stick icepicks in my ears one time and
be done with the problem for life?

>Just because it doesn't work
>for you is no reason to go off on John.

Good grief. Relax. You'd think I dropped a rock on his foot. Be assured,
my snotty little Google message didn't offend him any more than his snotty
little "You are a moron" message offended me.

J.