HELP!! Impossible to turn Flash off in you browser??

cluthz

macrumors 68040

Original poster

• Dec 1, 2004

• #1

Some pages with loads of Flash animations are almost killing my powerbook (the same happens om my G4 tower too..).

Pages with 5+ flash animations is impossible to access.

Is there are way to block those flash animations? or atleast make them play once or lower their quality..?

I can block pictures with mozilla, but not flash animations...

if you want too see for yourself look here.

http://www.dinside.no/php/art.php?id=112747

 

wrldwzrd89

macrumors G5

• Dec 1, 2004

• #2

This is very easy to do. First, close all your web browsers (copy this post to a text file first). Then go to (your hard disk)/Library/Internet Plug-Ins, and move the files Flash Player.plugin and flashplayer.xpt elsewhere (don't delete them, since you might need Flash again). Restart your browser(s) for the change to take effect.

 

jeremy.king

macrumors 603

• Dec 1, 2004

• #3

Adblock + Firefox will block Flash.

 

cluthz

macrumors 68040

Original poster

• Dec 1, 2004

• #4

kingjr3 said:

Adblock + Firefox will block Flash.

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Migth jump to Firefox instead of Mozilla. It's like 00.10 (then minutes past midnigth) here, so I wll try tomorrow and report back. 😀

Thanks for the info!

In x11 i can rigth click the ad and block it (even if it is a flask ad, in macosx mozilla i can only block jpegs/gif/pngs.)

Some sites are like slideshows when they have many flash ads, and i often have to wait half a minute before I can even scroll..

It must be a bug!

 

mkrishnan

Moderator emeritus

• Dec 1, 2004

• #5

cluthz said:

In x11 i can rigth click the ad and block it (even if it is a flask ad, in macosx mozilla i can only block jpegs/gif/pngs.)

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If you hold on for a second after the flash ad appears you should get a ring around it and an "adblock" tab next to it that you can click, even for Flash. But I think you're right, you can't right click the Flash.