Firefox: how to disable annoying flash animations?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 15:49 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> Rob wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I use Firefox 2.0.0.12 with Fedora 7.
> > Also flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release installed.
> >
> > Some sites have very, very annoying flash animations
> > as advertisements. Those make it very difficult to
> > concentrate on the text I want to read on that page.
> >
> > Hence, is there a way to stop those animations from
> > 'animating' and distracting my attention, unless I
> > allow them (something similar to pop-ups).
> >
> > Does that exist in firefox?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rob.
> >
> >
> >
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> Use FlashBlock or AdBlock.
> 
> AdBlock will completely block the particular flash file, while 
> FlashBlock will not do it.
> 
> FlashBlock will place a link with a icon and clicking it will play the 
> flash. Unless You click the button flash won't be played.

Also the Noscript extension.

poc