On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 08:13:32 +0100 "James McBoyle" wrote:

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The "block images from this site" option in Mozilla works wonderful.

Except for one thing. Some sites make you pay for this luxury by loading a flash animation if the image can't be loaded. It seems.

How do I go about blocking these, without disabling flash altogether?

My favourite method of anti-flash is to use this code as a bookmark called 'Kill Flash', and it only gets rid of the flash on the current page, so you're not disabling flash altogether, just getting rid of the stuff you don't want...

javascript:function kd(d){var i,a=d.embeds;for(n=0;n

obviously this needs to be a single line, so be carefull when you copy/paste it.

Have Fun, Jim.

I've been using a mozilla add-on called "diggler". It puts a little menu right on the toolbar, which lets you do the image selection without having to edit preferences. Just a quick click will let you turn off images, images from same site, or all images. It is all done in javascript, so you could probably add that to the diggler menu. http://diggler.mozdev.org/ -- I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.

On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 23:31:52 +0200 H du Plooy 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.