74754 - Flash Player should behave as animated GIFs do

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 94035

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Mirek]

The flash player plugins (and similar ones) should behave similarly 
like animated gifs -or images in general- and the user should have the same
portfolio (or simiar) of control options over them. 

This means that if the animated gifs are set to "none",
the flash should not play by dafault. Similarly, if the user wants to
block images from certain sites (advertisements mainly....), the flash
plugins should be disabled for download as well. I think this describes 
the idea.

The issue is "how much similar" the options should be. I leave this for discussion.

There was a similar note in bug 17686 (which is closed now) and I cannot see
this issue addressed elsewhere.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Actually, it would be better to have completely separate settings for flash and
animated images...

And there is already a bug on blocking flash

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70805 ***

Comment 2

[timeless]

vrfy dupe

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 147090 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

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

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