198222 - Ability to block flash like we do for images

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 94035

(Core :: Graphics: Image Blocking, enhancement)

Description

[Keith Spainhour]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

As flash ads become more rampant, it would be a great enhancement to be able to
block flash just like we do for images.  In fact, I would reccommend a setting
that disAllows flash except for a list of sites, versus allowing for all sites
and then having to block them.  The allow list will be smaller than the blcok
list I am sure.  One problem is how to enable/disable since the flash plugin
grabs the
mouse click and puts up its own menu? Maybe Ctrl-Click or some other combo the
browser can itercept.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to any website with flash ads (I use CNN or yahoo)
2. Look at annoying flash ad, wish it was gone

Actual Results:  
Flash ad plays and bothers user. :-)

Expected Results:  
Be able to block flash ads or flash in general from a given server, etc like we
do with images.

This is obviously an enhancment request.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94035 ***