During the process of checking things out recently, I noticed that Shockwave Flash movies had stopped displaying in Firefox at some point. I think it was the loading of 0.9.
So I went through the ritual of uninstalling and reinstalling, but it didn’t really help. Then I started looking at Flashblock again. Looking through some posts here and there, it seemed that while Flashblock may work with the newer versions, it did seem to have some install problems. So I installed it to see what happened.
Flashblock no longer shows up in the extension list (it hadn’t for a while anyway), but it does seem to work as expected. And more importantly, my movies are back. But only when I want them. Sweet.
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7 responses to “Flashblock in Firefox”
FlashBlock worked fine now. and it is a must for browsing. I used have to remove the systems write permisions for the flash player directory on windows to prevent it from installing. Now i can see what I want and not the crap.
Ive had a different problem. A new version of firefox was available so i decided to downlod it. However, it now means that I can no longer view any flash (or any form of media; video, audio or some pictures). I have no types of flash content blocker plugins or extensions insta;;ed and do not know why this has happened. Can anyone help?
In the various versions of Firefox that I tried, Flashblock worked for awhile maybe a week or two then died. It is still listed as installed, but doesn’t do anything andI’m tired of seeing flash stuff. Adblock isn’t enough to block all flash garbage.
i tried to use the flashblock-plugin, and in don’t have ANY affect to any flash files… the old one was quite better, because it worked :/
I ran into a problem from a fresh install of Firefox 1.0, wherein I installed the Flashblock extension BEFORE I had actually installed the Flash player plug-in, and now Flashblock does not work. I have since uninstalled and re-installed Flashblock extenstion a couple times with no success. It simply does not block any Flash content. I am going to try re-installing Firefox.
has anyone else seen this?
I have this suspicion that if I run the adblock extension, flashblock doesn’t work. Anyone else think this is so?
I absolutely desire this plugin, but until it is polished enough to install/uninstall properly without leaving little breaky bits in the plugin core of my browser, I can’t bring myself to try it.
I wish Mozilla/Firefox had the smarts Konqueror had and allowed me to ignore further flash install requests…