Re: 9.26 flash irritation

Beartooth <Beartooth@swva.net> writes:

> 	Running Opera 9.26 under Fedora 8, I keep hitting sites that try 
> to tell me I "need" to install some Macromedia Flash plugin --
and I 
> can't very well tell them where I'll see them first. (There are maybe 
> three or four sites I'm willing to allow anything like that on -- and for 
> them I use Firefox with Flashblock.)
>
> 	How do I make Opera suppress these messages?

Why don't you  use Flashblocker w/ Opera? This one  seems to work well
for me.

http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/flashblock-for-opera-9

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	Running Opera 9.26 under Fedora 8, I keep hitting sites that try 
to tell me I "need" to install some Macromedia Flash plugin -- and I 
can't very well tell them where I'll see them first. (There are maybe 
three or four sites I'm willing to allow anything like that on -- and for 
them I use Firefox with Flashblock.)

	How do I make Opera suppress these messages?



-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Enthusiast
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.

Beartooth Sciurivore <beartooth@swva.net> writes:

> On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:17:21 -0800, Robt. W. Fletcher Jr wrote:
>
>> Beartooth <Beartooth@swva.net> writes:
> [...] 
>>> 	How do I make Opera suppress these messages?
>> 
>> Why don't you  use Flashblocker w/ Opera? This one  seems to work well
>> for me.
>> 
>> http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/flashblock-for-opera-9
>
> 	Ver-ry  inter-res-stingg;  I didn't  know  any  add-ons for  opera
> existed. Thanks for that info!
>
> 	But  after one  quick  look  at the  site,  no thanks;  installing
> flashblock on firefox takes only a couple of clicks.

Take your hand off the mouse.

1. Download the zip file (I downloaded it to /tmp)

2. cd /tmp

3. gunzip flashblock.zip

4. cp FlashBlocker.css ~/.opera/styles/user/

5. mkdir -p ~/.opera/userjs

6. cp FlashBlocker.js ~/.opera/userjs/

7. Start Opera 

8. Preferences -> Advanced -> Contents -> JavaScript options. Add the
   directory you created in Step 4. as the User Javascript files.

9. You can toggle FlashBlocker by doing View -> Styles 

I didn't find that too hard.

If you want to white-list some site (I don't) read the documentation.

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On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:17:21 -0800, Robt. W. Fletcher Jr wrote:

> Beartooth <Beartooth@swva.net> writes:
[...] 
>> 	How do I make Opera suppress these messages?
> 
> Why don't you  use Flashblocker w/ Opera? This one  seems to work well
> for me.
> 
> http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/flashblock-for-opera-9

	Ver-ry inter-res-stingg; I didn't know any add-ons for opera 
existed. Thanks for that info!

	But after one quick look at the site, no thanks; installing 
flashblock on firefox takes only a couple of clicks. No matter how well 
it works, it's out of my savvy to install; and I see no reason to 
go through the long intricate rigmarole described there -- even if it 
happens to be the same for linux as for Windows -- when it's so easy to 
just use firefox instead.

	I keep the machine before last around, behind a KVM switch, 
mainly for checking weather -- twenty or thirty tabs, updated at least 
once a day. That takes a load off my main machine; and I've been using 
Opera for it. But that's where most of the annoyances come.

	Looks like I better switch that function to Firefox.

	Reluctantly : I still prefer Opera for bookmarks and downloads ...

	Thanks again for the info; I hope maybe the people who write such 
things will eventually get them really user-friendly.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Evangelist
Fedora 8; Ubuntu 7.10; CentOS 5.1; Alpine 1.0, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6

Beartooth Sciurivore <beartooth@swva.net> writes:

> On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:59:44 -0800, Robt. W. Fletcher Jr wrote:
>
>> Beartooth Sciurivore <beartooth@swva.net> writes:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:17:21 -0800, Robt. W. Fletcher Jr wrote:
>>>
>>>> Beartooth <Beartooth@swva.net> writes:
>>> [...]
>>>>> 	How do I make Opera suppress these messages?
>>>> 
>>>> Why don't you  use Flashblocker w/ Opera? This one  seems to
work well
>>>> for me.
>>>> 
>>>> http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/flashblock-for-opera-9
>>>
>>> 	Ver-ry  inter-res-stingg;  I didn't  know  any  add-ons for 
opera
>>> existed. Thanks for that info!
>>>
>>> 	But  after one  quick  look  at the  site,  no thanks; 
installing
>>> flashblock on firefox takes only a couple of clicks.
>> 
>> Take your hand off the mouse.
>> 
>> 1. Download the zip file (I downloaded it to /tmp)
>> 
>> 2. cd /tmp
>> 
>> 3. gunzip flashblock.zip
>> 
>> 4. cp FlashBlocker.css ~/.opera/styles/user/

   cp FlashBlocker.css /home/you/.opera/styles/user

>> 
>> 5. mkdir -p ~/.opera/userjs
>> 
>> 6. cp FlashBlocker.js ~/.opera/userjs/

   cp FlashVlocker.js /home/you/.opera/userjs/

> 	Pan (as reader, not now as writer) shows me the second halves of 
> lines 4 and 6 above in italics; is that significant?

Any clearer? 'you' is your username.

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