Disabling Flash in IE?

Post #46,081 by tablizer 7/19/02 12:34:08 PM Reply	Disabling Flash in IE? (Please don't say "get Opera". I have no more "widgets" bugdet according to my "domestic accountant".) I keep getting a pop-up message about upgrading to Flash 6.0. I don't want to upgrade because it takes too long to download. Plus, Flash is annoying and a bandwidth hog. Thus, I want IE to just ingore Flash applets. Ideally it would ignore them unless I click on them, but that may be asking too much, so I just want to make it display a placeholder and not nag me. I renamed SWFLASH.DLL, but it still nags. ________________ oop.ismad.com
Post #46,101 by CRConrad 7/19/02 3:26:11 PM Reply	Then get Mozilla - itt's free (as well as Free).
Post #46,104 by orion 7/19/02 4:06:15 PM Reply	Mozilla has Flash support as well I have been able to run Flash apps in Mozilla 1.0 for Windows. All I did was tell Flash that Mozilla was really Netscape 6.0 and I pointed it to the Mozilla directory to install. But really, it is about a 1M download to upgrade to frigging 6.0, which would stop the nagging, right? *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*
Post #46,130 by CRConrad 7/19/02 6:26:43 PM Reply	But surely that's disableable?!? I mean, you "have been able" to run Flash in Mozilla -- that's not the same thing as "had to", I hope. 'Coz otherwise, those open-source coders aren't living up to their reputation for user configurability. Christian R. Conrad Microsoft is a true reflection of Bill Gates' personality - the sleaziest, most unethical, ugliest little rat's ass the world has seen unto this time. -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=42971\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #46,144 by orion 7/19/02 6:52:26 PM Reply	Isn't that for a future release of Mozilla? Or did they sneak it in with the 1.0 updates? I thought turning off Flash in Mozilla was still up for debates? *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*
Post #46,222 by ben_tilly 7/20/02 1:53:10 PM Reply	It is about more than that I don't want what flash provides. I don't trust Macromedia to not be pushing buggy shit that someone will figure out how to break in a year. I don't want to have to fucking worry about it. If your page uses flash, I didn't want to go there anyways. Cheers, Ben "... I couldn't see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything." --Richard Feynman
Post #46,287 by scoenye 7/21/02 12:30:49 PM Reply	Mozilla is worse here You have no control over plugins. The "helper app" panel works different from what it did in NN 4.xx and doesn't show plugins. There's no way to turn them off or assign mime types to another handler.
Post #46,313 by Ashton 7/21/02 8:41:42 PM Reply	Thanks. I thought I had just failed to read ALL of the sub-menus. Oh well, there's always 1.1 and 1.2 and 2.0 and.. Ashton
Post #46,136 by kmself 7/19/02 6:45:03 PM Reply	Stylesheet Specifically [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/UserContentCSS#Nuking_embedded_objects_\|here]. Not sure what MSIE's support of a local CSS is. -- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand? [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/\|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever. Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]
Post #46,201 by static 7/20/02 4:42:14 AM Reply	Might not be possible. I just had a quick look in IE - I couldn't find how to do that. (I know how to do it in Opera and I know you know how to do it in Mozilla.) Also, IE appears to not support selectively disabling plug-ins. Bryce, I'd suggest switching to Mozilla or Opera. Opera has a free mode, you just have to put up with the ads in the corner. Wade. "Ah. One of the difficult questions."

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