[Curiosity]

For Safari, are there any add-ons that can remove a particular web element from a web page or block Flash temporarily, as RIP and Flashblock do for Firefox?

[IronPen]

PithHelmet is probably the most popular. Personally, I prefer just using a style sheel for ad-blocking because it requires no "app" running in the background. You can get it for Safari, Firefox and others at Ad Blocking for Mozilla, Netscape 7, and Safari And for added Safari functionality that I find it hard to live without, install SafariStand (but it's not easy to get working in Leopard).

A good place to find apps is MacUpdate: Apple Macintosh Software & Game Downloads

[Curiosity]

Thanks, I got SafariStand. It does block plugins, and I can right-click to activate one that I want to use. It does not seem able to remove specific web elements and close up the space, however. For blocking just ads, I got SafariBlock.

[IronPen]

Originally Posted by Curiosity 

It does not seem able to remove specific web elements and close up the space, however. For blocking just ads, I got SafariBlock.

I think it depends on the CSS style sheet. SafariStand stops it from playing, but it leaves it there so you can click on it to play it if you want. But if the flash video is seen as an ad, your style sheet (or SafariBloc) should block it and close up the space it would normally consume on the page. Admittedly, I haven't used SafariBlock. I also like the QuickSearch features that SafariStand allows. And you can easily add your own. Then if you use Quicksilver, install the SafariStand plugin and you'll have quick access to all of them w/a couple of keystrokes, or just put in the shortcut in the url bar in Safari, 'g bears' to search Google for bears. And it keeps your search from being kept in Safari's Google history. But I like using QS so that I don't have to switch from the current app to Safari first. AND, you can right-click a word on a page and search it using your quick search options: Google, Netflix, MacUpdate, you name it.