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

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Mon, 5 May 2008 at 21:39, "Karl Bowden" <karlbowden at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Paul Gear <paul at libertysys.com.au> wrote:
> > Melissa Draper 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.
> >
> >  OK - next question: is there a solution for 64-bit platforms which will
> >  allow me to run a 32-bit and a 64-bit browser simultaneously?  I usually
> >  have 40 to 50 tabs across 5-10 different windows open at once, and i
> >  can't afford to stop running my 64-bit browser just to run a Flash site
> >  in my 32-bit browser.
>
> You can install both firefox 32bit and firefox 64bit alongside each
> other. Just make sure if you run them both at once, you start it with
> the --no-remote option.

You're better off isolating different instances of Firefox to their own 
profiles, so that they don't tread on each other's toes. Start Firefox with 
the "-ProfileManager" option to manually select/create profiles. Once 
created, you can start Firefox directly with a particular profile with 
the "-no-remote -P <profilename>" parameter.

This is also great for segregating your browsing for different purposes (work, 
play, testing, etc.). I keep multiple Firefox profiles, each with their own 
settings, saved sessions, plug-ins, etc. I use the Foxmarks extension to 
synchronise bookmarks between them. If I was more trusting, I might use 
Google Browser Sync to share more than just bookmarks.



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which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
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