Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Galeon does not offer to do that for me, actually. If there is, say, a > flash animation on a page, it displays a "puzzle piece" icon and if I > click on it, it tells me that a plugin is missing: "This page contains > information of a type (application/x-shockwave-flash) that can only be > viewed with the appropriate Plug-in.". No offer to install anything. > > Galeon 1.3.7. I wonder what I'm doing differently. I may have misremembered galeon's behavior, I've not used it for a while and the puzzle peice thing rings a bell. With mozilla-firebird and ion, it uses a toplevel window that is not even a proper child window of the browser, and that does not let its geometry be set. So ion displays a tiny little flash dialog in the midst of a black sea of a new tab it's opened for it, often in the same frame I was in the middle of trying to use a browser in. This is beyond annoying. I've done three dpkg-diverts now that I was reminded it is the nullplugin.so. In the meantime, I notice that my sister has followed the dialog and apparently has flash installed on her computer (which vrms thinks has no nonfree software on it). And I saw something in bugtraq the other day about flash allowing sites to store cookie-like data on the user's machine without cookie controls. I am considering ITPing a no-flash-adverts.deb. > (There are, of course, attempts at writing free flash viewers, but > they've never worked for me to such a degree that I would want to use > one. Maybe one day.) I tried it once, and it worked well enough to display car commericals, which was plenty of reason to turn it back off. -- see shy jo
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