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Optional Flash [Feb. 20th, 2005|01:16 pm]
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Some sites make good use of the Shockwave plugin, while some others use it gratuitously. I've found a crude but workable method for enabling and disabling the plugin for Mozilla.

To enable:

#!/bin/sh
cd ~/.mozilla/plugins
ln -s ~/.mozilla/xplugins/libflashplayer.so


To disable:

#!/bin/sh
rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so


Note: it requires restarting the browser.
Bugs: no error checking.
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[User Picture]From: [info]hazeii
2005-02-20 02:00 pm (UTC)

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Quite!

There are various hacks for this, but sadly not much demand; most people seem to prefer being barraged by blinking flashing beepy stuff, all so they can't hear themselves think.

[User Picture]From: [info]nerdware
2006-02-09 08:15 pm (UTC)

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Alas.