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.
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