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

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Mon, 5 May 2008 at 20:53, Melissa Draper <melissa at meldraweb.com> wrote:
> 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.

+1

NoScript rocks my world. Most sites do not need 
Flash/JavaScript/Silverlight/etc. to be usable. Blocking those elements often 
makes pages faster and more navigable. It also has the added side-effect of 
blocking many advertisements.

NoScript's (sub)domain rules are quite powerful, so you can for example have 
your favourite sites enabled for scripting but others blocked by default. Its 
flash blocking ability encompasses the feature set of Flashblock.

You can also block a lot of crud with a filtering proxy, such as Privoxy.

Personally, I use both NoScript and Privoxy to great effect.


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