Jane Galt wrote:
"Paul B. Gallagher" <[email protected]> wrote :
Jane Galt wrote:
You know what's odd? I restarted it with add ons disabled, then
opened the add ons window and a lot of them are still there.
They're still there because they're still installed. Look carefully to
see if they're disabled or not.
I wonder if there's just a way to uninstall all of them en masse and see if
that helps? It's also kicking me over to the bookmarks when I visit a lot of
web sites, which is grating on me. I HATE Internet Explorer but it works, and
I need SM to work right.
I'd also like to find out what's causing it to flip into the open
bookmarks page, when I visit some sites.
Known issue with Flash, discussed here many times in the past couple of
months. There's even a workaround, posted many times.
I wasn't reading this whole group. Is there a web archive?
Not AFAIK, but if you've been downloading the messages you can search
them locally. Here's a relevant posting that I found in about a minute:
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Flash and windows switching
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:27:28 -0400
From: Ed Mullen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: mozilla.support.seamonkey
References: <[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
Ed Mullen wrote:
> Hank wrote:
>> Ed Mullen wrote:
>>> I just updated to the latest Flash plugin and it is still causing the
>>> window switching problem. Sheesh.
>>>
>>>
>> The following has solved this problem for many of us.
>>
>> Snipped from earlier discussion:
>>
>> I was also having problems with focus switching from the browser window
>> to the mail/news window in SeaMonkey, after opening certain links. I
>> have the Flash 11.4 plugin installed on Windows 7 (64-bit) and what
>> fixed if for me was disabling "protected mode" in Flash. Ref:
>>
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash#Flash_Protected_Mode_issues_on_Windows_Vista_and_above
>>
>>
>>
>> You can disable Protected Mode by adding the line ProtectedMode=0 to the
>> Flash "mms.cfg" file located in:
>>
>> (Windows 32bit) C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash
>> (Windows 64bit) C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash
>>
>> For details, see
>> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash#Disabling_Protected_Mode_in_Flash_11.3
>>
>
> And every time I update the Flash plugin I have to manually edit this
> fix? Yes, it fixed it once. But EVERY time? C'mon!
>
> Nonsensical. Stupid. Idiotic.
>
> Let the Adobe programmers fix this at the base level so no user has a
> problem.
>
> Geez.
>
> What silly crap.
>
>
I should add that I had applied that fix some time ago and it is still
there in the mms.cfg file.
--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
I used to be clueless about math, but I turned that around 360 degrees.
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