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How to permanently hide elements of any web page from Firefox
First thing you need to do is install the extension. That's a bit trickier than you'd think, because the latest version isn't yet compatible with Firefox 3.01. Fortunately, you can force it to work by preventing your browser from checking for extension compatibility.
Once the plugin is up and running, you can right click on any portion of any web page and either remove that section permanently, or click the RIP advanced button for additional options. Keep in mind that if you remove an element, it will only be gone from a single URL. For example, if you remove the Download Squad logo from our main page, it will still show up on article pages, search pages, and so on.
It's also worth nothing that your browser still downloads the files. You just won't see them. So Remove it Permanently won't reduce your bandwidth use, it will just make obnoxious web sites like MySpace slightly more bearable to read.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Banquo said 3:25PM on 8-15-2008
I've been using Nuke Anything for years but this looks like it has a lot more features.
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Josh said 5:16PM on 8-15-2008
element hiding helper with adblock plus does this same thing AND you can have it block from more than a single page.
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Paul Nicholson said 5:16PM on 8-15-2008
Why not just use AdBlock Plus? It is fully supported by all versions of FireFox (including 3+) and offers a subscription service that will proactively block and any all ads for you, in addition to allowing you to setup custom blocking like you describe above.
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b said 5:16PM on 8-15-2008
> So Remove it Permanently won't reduce your bandwidth use, it will just make obnoxious web sites like MySpace slightly more bearable to read.
Or, um, Download Squad? I'm sure Sprint is happy to see you're providing directions to block/hide their banner ads! Ha!
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Loodac said 7:18PM on 8-15-2008
One more vote for AdBlock Plus. I even think that it doesn't download blocked images/ads/whatever, so it will save your bandwidth! But I'm not 100% positive about that.
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dianoga said 7:25AM on 8-16-2008
that's true Adblock Plus will not download the blocked elements so it will save your bandwidth. One more vote for Adblock Plus!
MrMuggs said 7:25AM on 8-16-2008
AddBlock Plus vote here! I love that plugin.
Sridhar said 11:53PM on 8-16-2008
Aardvark is a good Firefox add-on to have in conjunction with RIP. Once you have both of them installed, right click on the page or go to Tools -> Start Aardvark. Now move the mouse over the ad you would like to block and simply press 'k' to kill it. To quit, press 'q'.
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zephroelectro said 12:58PM on 8-19-2008
It would be awesome if it was like some type of service that COULD actually hammer down the bandwidth.
There are many pages on the internet that are bloated with stuff, and some of them are barely browsable without their images etc...so the annoyance for me isn't the visible things, but more so...how long before the simplistic parts of the site start to be visible (text or buttons).
Web developers need to remember that not every country has access to very nice and fast internet ;)
Alternatively, what we need, is a service that loads pages, and then filters through all the jpegs and other media formats etc and re-saves those to a lower quality (for instance a 500kb jpeg becomes 100kb, and a image with barely any colors becomes a smaller image format that can use color pallets?).
I guess though, such a service would cost heaps to run, and to make that free would be a hassle.
In the end, website programmers just need to have their service programmed so that browsers load the things in a better order, I reckon...if that is possible.
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