Flash - it hurts! Make it stop! :-(

[Melissa Draper]

Dave Hall wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 11:59 +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
>> Does anyone know a way to stop Firefox asking about installing missing
>> plugins?  Facebook is driving me nuts since they switched their status
>> app to Flash, since i'm on 64-bit Gutsy.
> 
> You could install FlashBlock - http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ even though
> I have flash working on AMD64, it cuts down the amount of bandwidth
> pointless crappy flash wastes

noscript ( www.noscript.org ) gets rid of the javascript muck as well as 
the flash stuff, and allows rules by domain/subdomain/etc.