Re: Switching plugins (esp. Flash) on and off.

  Andrew Schultz <[email protected]>,
  In a message on Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:40:25 -0400, wrote :

AS> Peter Weilbacher wrote:
AS> > Robert Heller wrote:
AS> >> I am using Mozilla 1.2 (under RedHat Linux 7.3) and I want to know if
AS> >>  there is a way to turn a plugin on or off *without* having to exit 
AS> >> mozilla and move the plugin shared library out of or in the plugin 
AS> >> directory.
AS> > 
AS> > I had some success to move the shared library out of the way and then
AS> > Shift-reload about:plugins. But I don't know any convenient way to
AS> > really switch them off.
AS> 
AS> That's the only way to get what you're looking for.  There's also the 
AS> flashblock extension, but I don't know if recent versions work with a 
AS> Mozilla that old.

There really should be a way to turn plugins on/off in a running
Mozilla/FireFox (I am willing to wait for a future release of FireFox
-- I will *eventually* upgrade my system).  Either on a site-by-site
basis (like images) or just on/off (like the way Java and JavaScript
are handled).  There is no reason that plugins should be any different
than any other media.

AS> 
AS> -- 
AS> Andrew Schultz
AS> [email protected]
AS> http://www.sens.buffalo.edu/~ajs42/
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