276726 - Flash Player

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 229196

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bill]

I use Yahoo for my home page. With the internet explorer I was able to disble
Macromedia Flash with spywareblaster. With Fire Fox I cant. When you select any
news article , The advertisement at the top or sides Flash and is extremely
annoying. I tried The disable pictures options and only enable pictures from
originating website option but pictures I want to see are disabled and today the
advertisements kept flashing. I hear its causes seizures  for some people. For
me its distracting. The problem is that some websites require Flash to view So I
dont want to uninstall it. I just installed Firefox not too long ago. Maybe a
week ago. It would be nice if your browser had a check box that would disable
Macromedia Flash and re enable it. In the mean time I have to manually disable
it by changing the file called : Flash.ocx to Flash.zap wich worked. I just
figured it out a few minutes ago and havent changed it back to Flash.ocx but Im
sure it will work if I do. Would it be feasable to install a Macromedia Flash
kill switch for us people who get extremely distracted by flashing Advertisements?

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

You can use the adblock extension to do just that. It is available at
http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=774 .

This is sort of a combination duplicate of bug 229196 and bug 94035. Duping to
the former.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 229196 ***

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

There's also an extension at http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ which you may find
useful.