Don't Need to Stinkin' Flash
I don't know about you, but I hate (with a passion) blinking/flashing/rotating junk on web pages when I'm trying to do research. The distraction is bad enough, but Flash is a big security problem (so I've been told--I've never personally had a problem with it) and takes time and bandwidth on my very limited pipe to the rest of the world.
I use FireFox as my daily browser (IE, Chrome, and Safari for testing), and have installed the Flashblock add-on in FireFox. It's a miracle! No more Flash (unless I want it). This add-on allows you to choose, on every page, whether to display the Flash content or not. Pages load faster, there's no distractions, and no Flash stuff unless I need it. If you're interested, the link is here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433