Eero Tamminen wrote: > Hi, > > Personally, I just avoid sites which consistently include Flash done by > idiots. Maybe you could complain to the sites hosting them that they > tried to do a "denial-of-service" attack against your machine? :-))) > > PS. It would be nice to have something like "noscript" for Flash > where I could enable Flash only for sites on which I really want to > see the Flash content. As JS & Flash are both powerful programming > languages that run random programs fetched from the network in the > (Browser) sandbox on your machine, I consider them pretty big > (potential) security holes... The sites that don't work on the N800 are fine on a PC - granted the PC has more horsepower, but it doesn't prove the Flash is written by idiots. We all know the N800 struggles with Flash/youtube videos so a more appropriate conclusion would seem to be that the N800 Flash player simply isn't up to snuff for videos AND adverts. See https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1006, specifically comment #3. What Opera needs is something similar to the Firefox FlashBlocker plugin - this plugin maintains a list of URLs for "friendly" Flash sites and Flash will be played only for those sites. Add the per-URL option "Don't sleep for this site" and everyone will be happy: users of LastFM/Pandora will be happy as they can prevent their device from sleeping while playing music, and non-friendly sites with malicious/idiot Flash adverts can still be accessed and navigated without having to disable Flash entirely.
