Why are there scripts that no plug-in will block? SOLVED

[runbei]

Hi all. I really don't need to watch an exciting video of someone tweezing a record-length hair out of his cheek: http://bit.ly/1y4NWk4. Yet I've found NO plug-in that will effectively block this crap - or, for example, videos of cheerful sports announcers running automatically on sites like www.sfgate.com.

Is there any way to stop these maddening attention-getting ploys?

Gratefully,

rb

[barbaz]

I really don't need to watch an exciting video of someone tweezing a record-length hair out of his cheek: http://bit.ly/1y4NWk4. Yet I've found NO plug-in that will effectively block this crap

that one is an animated GIF - meaning just an image - so...

to disable image animation completely:
about:config > set image.animation_mode to "none" (without quotes)

to disable animation looping (but auto play the animation once), same thing but use "once" instead of "none"

to stop it from loading at all (block the whole image outright), use NoScript's ABE

or, for example, videos of cheerful sports announcers running automatically on sites like www.sfgate.com.

Could you please be more specific here? I went to that site but not seeing what you're seeing...

[runbei]

Many thanks for this. At the moment, I'm not seeing the autoplay sports videos either, perhaps because I've now got FlashBlock running.

Gratefully.