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How do I avoid websites hanging on load due to elements being blocked by firewall

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I am currently in China. As you may know China employs a pretty nasty firewall to keep discussion of sensitive topics at bay. The problem is many western based websites have been blocked by this ie. Facebook and Twitter. I don't normally visit these sites, however many sites employ elements that rely on content from these blocked sites, so when I'm loading a website, it tries to load data from a link to Twitter for example, but it fails to continue loading the rest of the data from the actual site that I'm visiting while this happens (because the twitter data is blocked). Is there anyway to make it so Firefox skips over these blocked elements, or make it so the rest of the page loads up with the other elements are still timing out?

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I am currently in China. As you may know China employs a pretty nasty firewall to keep discussion of sensitive topics at bay. The problem is many western based websites have been blocked by this ie. Facebook and Twitter. I don't normally visit these sites, however many sites employ elements that rely on content from these blocked sites, so when I'm loading a website, it tries to load data from a link to Twitter for example, but it fails to continue loading the rest of the data from the actual site that I'm visiting while this happens (because the twitter data is blocked). Is there anyway to make it so Firefox skips over these blocked elements, or make it so the rest of the page loads up with the other elements are still timing out? == URL of affected sites == http