Re: [newbie] disable Flash?

2002-12-06 Thread Mike Larson
Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:59:53 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip It seems that this should be an easy thing to do with a bash script, then bind it to some key. In fact, that's all jTFlashManager does--renames the libflashplayer.so and ShockwaveFlash.class. For the

Re: [newbie] disable Flash?

2002-12-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:23:45AM -0600, Mike Larson wrote: Very interesting Todd. Thanks for yor help and input. I am still very much a newbie and not well versed at all in scripting. This will be an opportunity for me to learn something. :-) Meanwhile, I have found that although simply

Re: [newbie] disable Flash?

2002-12-06 Thread Mike Larson
Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:23:45AM -0600, Mike Larson wrote: snip I noticed the same thing about renaming--I tried several different schemes. When I typed about:plugins in the address bar, I would get whatever I named it as the Flash and Shockwave plugins--weird, I

Re: [newbie] disable Flash?

2002-12-05 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:59:53 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip It seems that this should be an easy thing to do with a bash script, then bind it to some key. In fact, that's all jTFlashManager does--renames the libflashplayer.so and ShockwaveFlash.class. For the script, all

Re: [newbie] disable Flash?

2002-12-05 Thread Todd Slater
Doh! My flash plugins are only in one directory, so I didn't test on multiple directories. As the script is written, it won't work for multiple directories because I used mv. # Where is Flash located? Put all paths here # You need write access to libflashplayer.so # and ShockwaveFlash.class

[newbie] disable Flash?

2002-12-04 Thread Mike Larson
A few days ago I installed Mozilla-xft 1.2.1 from Texstar's RPMs. It includes Java, Flash beta plugin realplayer plugin. Works great, but does anyone know of an easy way to disable Flash for the 99% of the time I don't want it? I have popups and most ads blocked by Mozilla and life is

Re: [newbie] disable Flash?

2002-12-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 22:11:05 -0600 Mike Larson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few days ago I installed Mozilla-xft 1.2.1 from Texstar's RPMs. It includes Java, Flash beta plugin realplayer plugin. Works great, but does anyone know of an easy way to disable Flash for the 99% of the time I