SJS wrote: > begin quoting Ralph Shumaker as of Sun, May 25, 2008 at 03:01:31PM -0700: >> There are several things I do not like about adobe flash player, but >> this one takes the cake. >> >> Whenever my mouse hovers over something that gives me a popup menu, if >> that menu happens to pop up over a flash image, the menu ends up >> underneath, making the menu impossible to read. >> >> Is there a way to fix this short of disabling flash? If so, how? If >> not, how do I disable flash? > > On disabling flash: > > You can use a proxy to filter out flash links. > > You can use noscript to disable-by-default. > > There are probably anti-flash specific plugins for firefox. > > You could identify the flash-support library and delete it (or, if you > don't want to be drastic, chmod a-rwx it). > >> Until this happened, what I hated most about the flash player was if I >> was using the scroll wheel to move the page up or down, if the mouse >> pointer happened to hover over a flash image, the scroll wheel would >> stop working until I move the pointer off of the flash image. >> GRRRRR!!! (This by itself made it tempting to disable flash.) > > Disable flash everywhere except for one sacrifical machine/user. > > BTW, VLC will play .flv (flash video), so you don't actually need flash > enabled in the browser in order to watch the multitude of low-resolution > low-frame-rate poor-sound video clips that are all the rage. Some of > 'em are even funny!
I can't seem to do that sort of thing -- maybe I misinterpret what you mean. How do you get the flv (or swf?) file or url from someplace like youtube? What is your recipe, if that is doable. Regards, ..jim -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
