Posted by Jim Higson on 11/16/56 11:36

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

> Alan J. Flavell wrote:
>
>> If there was a way of getting a prompt and being able to say "no
>> thanks" to the browser when unsolicited flash content was offered, I
>> might be willing to re-enable it. I haven't found an option like that
>> yet.
>
> Would a Checkbox and/or a Kill Flash button suffice?
>
> ...
>> Readers are, of course, free to form their own opinion on that!
>> My usual browser (Mozilla), as I say, has had its flash plugin
>> de-installed, whereas my MSIE simply brings up a security alert
>> refusing to execute "Active-X controls" from this untrusted site.
>
> How about the Mozilla/Firefox PrefBar extension?
> http://prefbar.mozdev.org/
> and a picture with the Customize dialog open:
> http://k75s.home.att.net/images/prefbar.png
>
> Place the Kill Flash control on the bar. That French rail site just ..
> disappears! :-)

There's also an extention called FlashBlock. It puts a play button where the
flash would normally be. If you want to see it you can click the button,
otherwise it is never shown.

Jim

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