Linux on an AMD64 box...

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 05:36:42PM +0000, Christopher Browne wrote

> It would provide the about best results for the promise if it was
> implemented as...
> 
> main () {
>   exit 1;
> }
> 
> The primary benefit to having something that "ate" Flash would be if
> it made the irritating popup dialog boxes go away...

  https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/433/ the "Flashblock" add-on for
Firefox.  Blocks Flash by default, requiring you to click on a button
(*NOT* a popup) to play the Flash.  It also has a whitelist, so that you
can allow http://video.google.com etc.

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