Firefox remove a Flash -was- Re: [Discuss] Technical questions taken at the AGM

[Lloyd Budd]

On Dec 12, 2007 6:30 AM, brent sirna <bsirna at pinetreeline.org> wrote:
>
> The first question was to do with preventing flash animations from
> displaying over top of website menus in Firefox. Basically the problem
> is you find some website that will have a click-able menu and a flash
> animation just below the menu. When you click on the menu it appears but
> most of the menu is displayed underneath the flash animation. And
> disabling flash only displays a blank box saying that a plugin is
> required.
>
> There were two solutions suggested. The first is a plugin call Flash
> Block and the other was I think called script stop or something like
> that. If somebody remembers the name could you please post it.

And as you mention, there is http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433)

http://adblockplus.org also can remove flash.
(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865)

http://noscript.net/ is a great security addition, but can be annoying
as many sites don't degrade gracefully when JS is disabled. By
default, it doesn't disable flash.
(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722)

Hope that helps,
Llyod