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disable flash ?

Asked by: joopv

Some web pages are extremely annoying with their aggressive flash windows.  I have to right-click the window and remove the 'play' mark in order to be able to concentrate on the actual content of the page.

Furthermore, it consumes cpu cycles i need for more productive applications.  Also take a look at http://www.experts-exchange.com/jsp/qShow.jsp?qid=20147167

Now even EE has gotten into this agressive flash thing.  I am using msie 5.0 on win2kprof.  What i need to know is how to get better control over flash 'enhanced' web pages, or how to temporary disable flash code from executing.

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Answers

 

by: YodaMagePosted on 2001-07-19 at 08:54:22ID: 6299022

What if you shut down animations and video in tools|internet options|advanced?

 

by: joopvPosted on 2001-07-19 at 08:59:34ID: 6299042

Has no effect on flash code.

 

by: joopvPosted on 2001-07-19 at 10:31:53ID: 6299360

Has no effect on flash code.

 

by: YodaMagePosted on 2001-07-19 at 11:23:40ID: 6299511

I'm guessing then that the only other way is to go after the actual flash player. You could just blow it away then disable the download of it.

What happens if you write a quick batch app. to copy the flash player out of its' normal windows|downloaded program files directory to the windows|temp directory?

Without the Shockwave Flash Object active x control....hold on, what if you go into tools|internet options|security|custom level and disable the running of Active X Controls and Plugins, or at least move it to a prompt.

 

by: raizonPosted on 2001-07-20 at 11:46:08ID: 6303243

Yes, if you disable/prompt "Initialize Script/ActiveX Controls" then that would disable/prompt Flash.

 

by: raizonPosted on 2001-07-20 at 11:48:36ID: 6303256

Meant disable/prompt Run Active X Controls and Plugins as Yoda stated.

 

by: joopvPosted on 2001-07-25 at 05:05:27ID: 6316928

Thanks.. Problem is that other functionality is also lost.

 

by: fdltcPosted on 2002-12-12 at 06:45:00ID: 7572208

You can try IEFriend.It can disable/enable flash in realtime without restarting your browser.The position of flash located will be displayed blank. If you want to see the flash,you can temporarily enable flash by pressing "Ctrl".
That is very cool.
The URL is www.helptodo.com.

 

by: mgfranzPosted on 2004-04-24 at 11:49:07ID: 10908719

There is an easier way;

1. First, prevent IE from finding flash!

      Rename the swflash.ocx file to swflash.ocx2.  (On Windows 2000, the file seems
      to be named Flash.ocx.  So rename it Flash.ocx2)

      (Find it using SEARCH or FIND FILE on "flash.ocx".  Oh, you'll need to quit IE
      first before WINDOWS will let you rename the file, since it's "in use".)

      Excellent, but not done yet.

2. Prevent the "Do you want to install Flash?" dialog from appearing...

      So, we still need to stop IE from asking over and over if you want to
      install Flash again when you view a page that has embedded flash! (Why
      do we have to do this?  Because IE and NN don't have options for
      disabling and re-enabling flash, the sneaky buggers!!!)

      So, add this line to your "Hosts" file using notepad (hosts is in the
      c:\windows\ directory in Win 98)... it's probably slightly different for 2000
      or others.  It often has the line "127.0.0.1 localhost" in there already...
      In my case, it didn't exist (only Hosts.sam, a sample file).  So I created
      it.  No extension.  Just "Hosts".  No sure if capitalization matters.

      0.0.0.0 download.macromedia.com activex.microsoft.com active.macromedia.com

      (It seemed like I had to reboot for #2 to take affect.  If this still doesn't
      work, perhaps try a separate line for each mapping...)

Done!

 

by: manjunathcvPosted on 2008-03-28 at 06:34:34ID: 21230214

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