permanently hide "allow www.example.com to run adobe flash?" while still blocking flash and allowing a whitelist
I use a netbook with a small amount of screen realestate.
I hate flash ads, but some sites have good flash content.
Firefox added a built-in equivalent to Flashblock, which gets the job done, but it insists on wasting my screen realestate with a requestor asking me whether I want to run flash or not on this site, EVERY TIME I LOAD THE PAGE, EVEN AFTER I SAY NO.
I want to permanently disable the impetuous, constantly-in-my-face requestor and rely solely on the plugin icon on the location bar. OR I want the requestor to respect the answer I gave it and stop asking me over and over and over and over ad nauseum.
So I'd like the plugin config for Flash to have 4 options: "Allow always", "Deny always", "Ask always", "Ask Once Per Site"
Lastly, a question to whomever made the decision to persistently put this dialog into users' faces (when there's already space allocated on the screen to change the preference!) :
The Firefox Password Manager only asks once whether you'd like to save a password for a site. As if a user's preference could never possibly change. Say no once and you can never save a password again on that site. But say no to playing Flash and we'll keep asking over and over like a stubborn child that wants its way - "run flash or I will keep asking you."
Who exactly is paying you to promote Flash on the web? I thought it was one of Mozilla.Org's goals to get rid of proprietary plugins!
Fixed in Firefox 34.0
Firefox now thankfully remembers the user preference from page to page and from refresh to refresh.
Modified by linuxgeex
الحل المُختار
Solution:
about:config
plugins.hideMissingPluginsNotification [true]
This prevents firefox from incessantly asking and still allows enabling it on a site-by-site basis.
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Hello,
I believe that you can achieve some of this through the Site Identity Button/Page Info page. First, to block Flash:
- Tools (or
) > Add-ons > Plugins
- Set Adobe Flash to "Never Activate"
Navigate to a site you want Flash to be activated:
- Click the globe or padlock on the left side of the address bar, followed by "More Information"
- Alternatively, go to Tools > Page Info
- Go to the "Permissions" tab and set Adobe Flash to "Always Ask" or "Allow"
Also, Mozilla is not promoting proprietary plugins. See:
If you want to leave feedback, please visit:
If you set flash to never activate, then the option to enable it only on specific sites disappears.
Please try it yourself.
Maybe that used to work in older versions of Firefox.
Shumway defeats the purpose in a variety of ways.
First and foremost, it doesn't respect the flash blocking rules Firefox already remembers for the sites which I've configured, and there's no obvious way to overcome that.
Second, it uses vastly more CPU resources, which burns down the laptop battery even faster than flash, which is contrary to Accessibility. A laptop running flash is better than no laptop at all with Shumway.
Thirdly, Shumway is doing nothing to make the web more open. It's a naive attempt to make the Player more open while ignoring the several orders of magnitude of binary content being played by it.
Lastly, the behaviour I set out above in the initial post demonstrates a preferential behaviour on behalf of the browser to display this closed, binary, proprietary content, regardless of whether it's being displayed in a "more open" plugin. And it does so at the point of a smoking gun - consuming the display space at every page load.
If you use never activate then you disable the plugin. You will have to use the ask setting. That will give the door hanger to ask about activating the plugin, but you can set the default via the Tools > Page Info > Permissions page (More Information > Permissions) and clicking the Site Identity Button button will show the current permission.
See also:
الحل المُختار
Solution:
about:config
plugins.hideMissingPluginsNotification [true]
This prevents firefox from incessantly asking and still allows enabling it on a site-by-site basis.
cor-el said
If you use never activate then you disable the plugin. You will have to use the ask setting. That will give the door hanger to ask about activating the plugin, but you can set the default via the Tools > Page Info > Permissions page (More Information > Permissions) and clicking the Site Identity Button button will show the current permission. See also:
That's great and all but what I'm saying is that the Door Knocker itself is what I want to get rid of.
I'll re-ask it with your more correct wording.
linuxgeex said
cor-el saidIf you use never activate then you disable the plugin. You will have to use the ask setting. That will give the door hanger to ask about activating the plugin, but you can set the default via the Tools > Page Info > Permissions page (More Information > Permissions) and clicking the Site Identity Button button will show the current permission. See also:That's great and all but what I'm saying is that the Door Knocker itself is what I want to get rid of.
I'll re-ask it with your more correct wording.
Fixed in Firefox 34.0
Firefox now thankfully remembers the user preference from page to page and from refresh to refresh.