Flash plugin for Firefox disable/uninstall

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jan 10 21:01:54 UTC 2008


On 01/10/2008 03:03 AM, Aart Koelewijn wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:25:09 -0800,  Danny Colligan wrote:
> 
>> How does one disable or uninstall the Adobe Flash plugin in Firefox?
>> 
>> I installed using the .tar.gz from the Adobe site:
>> http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Linux
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Danny
> 
> Type about:plugins in Firefox and find the name of the plugin (something
> like libflashplayer.so). Find where it is installed on your box (with
> locate or find). (Re)move it, restart Firefox.
> 

Or if you want to keep it, and just turn it off until you need it, I'd
recommend installing the Mozilla Preferences Toolbar:

http://prefbar.mozdev.org/






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