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Disabling Flash in the Browser?

Posted by Cliff on from the squelching-the-annoying-animations dept.

fishdan asks: "I know there are a few tools for selectively disabling flash in IE, but there is currently nothing in Mozilla. I'm wondering how many people have just removed Flash (as I have) by deleting the appropriate files? I find it greatly enhances my web experience, and on the very few cases when i think there is something worth seeing in Flash, I'll check it out on someone else's computer. I know someone is working on a 'disable flash from this site' for Moz X.x.x, but I'm wondering what people are doing now? I'm also actively advising people I know to remove Flash because of the lack of control for it on the users end. Short of deleting Flash, there's nothing uses can do to to stop those irritating ads. I don't mind the moderate ones, but the excessive ads are enough for me to throw the baby out with the bath-water."

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  1. Homsar! by TheDanish · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What? And miss out on Homestar Runner, and, more importantly, Strong Bad e-mails? You're nuts.

    Personally, the last time I tried to install Mozilla, I had a harder time getting Flash ON it.

    No, I have nothing useful to contribute to this discussion. Carry on.

    --
    Danish != nationality
  2. Flash hogs /dev/dsp by Spacelord · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For me, the most annoying thing about Flash ads is that they lock up Mozilla if something else is using the sound device. (for example if I'm playing mp3s in xmms) Mozilla will just hang until I free the sound device, no matter if the flash ad is really using sound or not.

  3. Disabling Flash on Mac OS X by jpkunst · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I went to /Library/Internet Plugins/ in the Terminal, and issued this command:

    chmod 600 Shockwave\ Flash\ NP-PPC

    Now the web browser is no longer allowed to access the Flash plugin. Simple, and good enough for me.

    JP