Re: Flash

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From: Adeola Awoyemi
Subject: Re: Flash
Date: 10:13 on 03 Jun 2004
I think firefox allows you to have a custom stylesheet so you could 
create one to hide (display: none) on object and embed elements on the 
page. This might however stop you from accessing, movies, sound and 
java applets on the page!

just my 0.02p.

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On 3 Jun 2004, at 10:06, Earle Martin wrote:

> My hate is of Flash, and of the way that it's quite possible for some
> halfwit to write a moronic banner advert that appears on 
> streetmap.co.uk and
> cycles endlessly and gets a death grip on something in Firefox's guts
> causing the whole application to lock up and become unresponsive thus
> forcing me to kill it and thus nuke all the twelve or so tabbed 
> windows in
> it with LOTS OF REALLY FUCKING USEFUL STUFF I WAS READING OR NEEDED TO 
> KEEP
> OPEN FOR REFERENCE AT SOME LATER POINT.
>
> Why doesn't Firefox let you block Flash animations from a certain 
> domain, as
> well as images? And for that matter, why can't I block images from a 
> certain
> path on a domain, like "example.com/ads/", as well as from a whole 
> domain?
>
> You know what? I've had it with streetmap.co.uk. The amount of crud
> surrounding the maps on their site has now passed my threshold of 
> "considered
> harmful".
>
> -- 
> Earle Martin
> hex on irc.perl.org
> http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/
>
>

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