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

[Paul Gear]

Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> 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.
>>> ...
> 
> +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.

I already use NoScript (as my first installed plugin whenever i set up
Firefox, followed shortly thereafter by the Netcraft toolbar).  Despite
its presence, the lack of a Flash plugin was annoying me greatly on
Facebook, because you have to allow Facebook to run scripts to make it work.

Setting plugin.default_plugin_disabled to false was what fixed it for me.

Paul

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