[H-GEN] Firefox

Stephen Thorne stephen.thorne at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 02:19:38 EDT 2005


On 25/07/05, David <djmunn at bigpond.com> wrote:
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> Hi All.....
> have struck a problem with Mozilla Firefox that i cant seem to find an
> answer to...
> when i load Austar.com.au the macromedia flash player puts the Join
> popup over the top of the main screen....i cant seem to find a way to
> "turn off" the flashplayer so that i can access the main screen
> properly.....

If you install the 'AdBlock' firefox extension, you can selectively
stop any files from loading. In this particular case I put in a rule
for http://austar.com.au/*.swf and volla, no more annoying flash
animations from that abusive website.
-- 
Stephen Thorne
Development Engineer




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