begin quoting Ralph Shumaker as of Sun, May 25, 2008 at 03:01:31PM -0700: > There are several things I do not like about adobe flash player, but > this one takes the cake. > > Whenever my mouse hovers over something that gives me a popup menu, if > that menu happens to pop up over a flash image, the menu ends up > underneath, making the menu impossible to read. > > Is there a way to fix this short of disabling flash? If so, how? If > not, how do I disable flash?
On disabling flash: You can use a proxy to filter out flash links. You can use noscript to disable-by-default. There are probably anti-flash specific plugins for firefox. You could identify the flash-support library and delete it (or, if you don't want to be drastic, chmod a-rwx it). > Until this happened, what I hated most about the flash player was if I > was using the scroll wheel to move the page up or down, if the mouse > pointer happened to hover over a flash image, the scroll wheel would > stop working until I move the pointer off of the flash image. > GRRRRR!!! (This by itself made it tempting to disable flash.) Disable flash everywhere except for one sacrifical machine/user. BTW, VLC will play .flv (flash video), so you don't actually need flash enabled in the browser in order to watch the multitude of low-resolution low-frame-rate poor-sound video clips that are all the rage. Some of 'em are even funny! -- Solving the bandwidth problem by lowering expectations: clever! Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
