on Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 12:19:30PM -0800, Arno (debian@onra.org) wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 12:32:23 +0100
> Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org> wrote:
>
> > Do anybody have a generic way to get rid of the annoying flash
> > commercials so that galeon won't ask me to install the flash plugin all
> > the time.
>
> Usually the flash files have the file extension .swf, so something like
> /ads.*\.(gif|jpe?g|swf) might be a starting point.
I don't think that's going to do the trick. If I understand SWF
correctly, the flash file isn't actually pulled until the viewer or
plugin is invoked. You're seeing the plugin prompt when the page
containing a _reference_ to the SWF file is loaded.
I'd go the webwasher route [1] or vote on appropriate bugs at bugzilla:
# 70805
[REF] implement Macromedia Flash blocker
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70805
Probably what you want. Selective Flash blocking by site, similar
to existing cookie and image blocking. Ideally, the Image blocking
would be generalized to block arbitrary content IMO. Has fifteen
votes, and four duplicate submissions. Check out the screenshots
(attachments to the bug) which show an implementation of filtering
for Flash.
# 61103
Stop default plugin from launching on page load on linux (mac?)
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61103
This is a rather popular bug -- it's had nine duplicate submissions
(90191, 87086, 95583, 91261, 98933, 61333, 100901, 69215, 114272).
It currently stands at 11 votes, there are 186 bugs with an equal or
greater number of votes. It concerns the "download plugin" dialog.
If you've already got Flash and want to block it on specific sites,
it's not quite what you want.
If you're not familiar with voting or bugzilla: you need to register.
Do, 'coz it's a Good Thing®. Then, you get ten votes to contribute to
bugs. You can add or subtract one vote per bug (some bugzilla
implementations allow multiple votes, Mozilla's doesn't). It's a way of
assessing interest in a particular feature.
Flash bugs the living bejeezus out of me, I'd love to see filtering
options available. Looks from #70805 that some patches to do parts of
this were submitted.
Peace.
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Notes:
1. Webwasher is a specific tool, but the general idea is that you
filter your HTML as it comes through to delete offending content.
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