Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 09/30/10 11:36

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! :-)

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-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

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