Back in the day, before FastForward on the VCR and a Mute button for the remote, one suffered through the annoying commercials about cigarettes and head or stomach pain pills. As a work around we fabricated a simple clicker switch from the hobbyist parts bin at Sparky’s. This was a simple hardwired interrupt to one of the input leads on the speaker which killed the audio. Now there is software. Follows is a short list of Firefox Extensions that remove the clutter from your web browsing experience:

• Flashblock Flash can add coolness to page presentation but more and more of these animations are obnoxious promotional distraction. By default Flashblock hides the ads. If desired, you can override with a mouse click.
• Adblock for hands on click removal / banning
• Adblock filterset.G Updater (used in conjunction with Adblock) automates the entire removal process