How to disable flash on IE and Firefox 1

[xwb]

I'd like to disable flash on IE6 and Firefox. I'm running on a slow machine and whenever I go on to a site that has flash, the machine just grinds to a halt. Animated gifs are OK.

 

[smah]

Uninstall Flash player

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157

 

[xwb]

I don't really want to uninstall flash. I only wish to play the animations on demand. Something like k-meleon. Maybe I'll just use k-meleon instead of messing with firefox or IE.

 

[blanius]

There are several plugIns for Firefox to do just that...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=flash&status=4

Bret Lanius

http://bretlanius.com

 

[xwb]

Thanks - I'll try that out on firefox. I may have to reinstall firefox on my W2K box - it has gone strange.

 

[cresbydotcom]

I was told that you can turn off Flash in the plugin control. By those that know - a bit.

What Flash doesn't want to do is be invisible so it waits till the end of the download before telling you that there is no Flash Plug-in or it is switched off.

basically no saving in time
which is significant on dial-up
good webmeisters know their audience and in my case Luddite would be about the right description and therefore I need to see what they see.

And when did eye-candy ever carry information?

I will investigate Firefox - I use Mozilla regularly. IE6 at work on broadband.


there is a tide in the affairs of man that you Cnut ignore.................

 

[cresbydotcom]

Flashblock looks to be the little puppy - have a gold star blanius.

Why can't people put a skip movie button? Yea right - they know how to, not how not to. If you see what I mean.

there is a tide in the affairs of man that you Cnut ignore.................

 

[xwb]

I normally use k-meleon which has an option to switch off flash. It doesn't play unless you press on the button with the arrow. It comes from the same codebase as Firefox but I couldn't figure out where it was, hence the question.