On Aug 26, 2011, at 4:33 PM, ken wrote:
>
> On 08/26/2011 02:35 PM Always Learning wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:31 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
>>
>>> Is this some sort of bug in the flashplugin?
>>
>> The Internet is littered with news of Flash bugs. HTML 5 offers the same
>> facilities except it does not hide information on your hard disk like
>> Flash does.
>>
>> Paul.
>
> Thanks for the news. I don't pick all the latest very often.
>
> Even back when I was running 5.5, I'd get those hangs/freezes. I went
> into FF's Preferences (I think) and disabled flash. Most of the
> problems went away.
>
> One site I went to every day had flash stuff all over it. When I
> disabled the plugin, in the places where formerly there were
> "eye-grabbing" advertisements there was no just code. After a few weeks
> they must have noticed, because the code was replaced by more or less
> static images. So maybe advertisers notice when people turn off the
> flash crap. And maybe that will make adobe eventually get their act
> together. Hope so... I kind of like some of the videos.
----
you can use flash block plugin on FF which allows you to simply click on the flash objects you're interested in and let the rest just show placeholders
Craig
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