281827 - flash plugin should be selectively enabled based on white list

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 94035

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[baggins_69]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

most flash content on the web is advertisements, some is actual content.  it
would be wonderful to be able to control which flash items get executed by using
a white list (similar to the way the "block popups" works) to selectively enable
some website's flash content to be executed, while blocking flash content from
others.

it would also totally rock if you could interface by right-clicking on a flash
animation and selecting a checkbox "block flash from www.xxx.com" like you can
currently do with images.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to any website (tomshardware.com is a great example of flash gone horribly
wrong)
2.suffer instant epileptic seizure from 10,000,000,000 flash ads playing at once
3.

Actual Results:  
horrible headache.

Expected Results:  
allowed me to block flash from the advertizers to be blocked from executing

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

There is an extension for this called flashblock http://flashblock.mozdev.org.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Roman Kizelshtein]

Agree this is a big problem.
You can block images but you can't block macromedia flash:
1st the right click non working at all on Macromedia flash.
2nd even if you enter adds site to be blocked in "Options" , "Content tab" ,
"Exceptions" (near "Load images") it still shows flash from that site.

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

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