On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 23:31:52 +0200 H du Plooy <linuser@ananzi.co.za> wrote:
Thanks to all who replied - I appreciate the suggestions.
My problem is a little bit more complex though. I don't want to kill flash animations after they happen - I don't want them to be downloaded in the first place. It's a bandwidth issue - 56k dial up in a third world country with one expensive phone company.
Some sites are entirely flash based, so I can't disable flash altogether. I guess the only way would be to check the page sources for the ip of the originating server and block them with SuSEfirewall.
I'm in the same situation. This is what I did. I renamed libflashplayer.so to *.bak . Now when I go to a flash site, it dosn't download, it pops up a window asking me if I want to get the flashplayer. I hit "cancel" and that's it, no download. If I happen to want to see the flash, I run a little script which renames libflashplayer.so.bak to libflashplayer.so, and then hit the reload button on the site. It's fast and easy. -- Our body's 20 milligrams of beta radioactive Potassium 40 emit about 340 million neutrinos per day, which go at lightspeed to the ends of the universe!..even thru the earth.