On 3/29/2015 10:52 PM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote:
> David E. Ross wrote:
>> On 3/29/2015 4:40 PM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote:
>>> Is another flash block needed when there is already one built into SM?
>>>
>>
>> The Flashblock extension will show you where the Flash presentation
>> would have appeared if it were not blocked.  This is indicated by an
>> icon that is an Italic lower-case f in a circle.  Place your cursor in
>> the area that the Flash presentation would have occupied, and the icon
>> changes to a right-pointing triangle in a circle.  Click on the icon if
>> you want to view the Flash.  None of this requires opening a Add-ons
>> Manager window.
>>
>> If you wish to use the built-in capability to enable or disable Flash,
>> you must then open the Add-ons Manager window and toggle the
>> Enable/Disable button.  Since I use Flashbock and have never used the
>> Add-ons Manager capability, I am not sure if enabling Flash via the
>> Add-ons Manager can selectively apply to only one Flash presentation on
>> a Web page that has several.  I am also not sure that, if you enable
>> Flash this way, whether you have to reload the affected Web page.
> 
> I have the built in flash block set to "ask".
> When I click on a flash thing is displays an icon like a Lego profile
> on the flash and says "Activate Adobe Flash" that has to be clicked on.
> At a random Youtube page it seems to activate Youtube from then
> on until I leave Youtube.  However, on radar.weather.gov the icon
> has to be clicked for every radar even though the urls are similar.
> I've tried all the flash blocks that I could find, about 6 or so,
> and they work so-so for me.  The built in one seems to work the best.
> The one with the flowing F works good on youtube but wont enable
> flash on
>   http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?product=NCR&rid=HGX&loop=yes
> for me.
> 

With Flashblock installed, I have no problem viewing a radar image of a
storm moving across the Gulf coast of Texas.  If I did not want to click
on the Flashblock icon, I could easily enter the radar.weather.gov
domain into Flashblock's whitelist by right-clicking on the Flashblock
icon before viewing the Flash.

-- 
David E. Ross

I am sticking with SeaMonkey 2.26.1 until saved passwords can
be used when autocomplete=off.  See
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433238>.
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