On Sunday 30 December 2007 21:24, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 30 December 2007, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:27:26 -0600
Steven Stern subscribed-lists@sterndata.com wrote:
There seems to be no quick and easy (and easily reversible) way to disable plugins.
I have a little shell script that I use to rename libflashplayer.so to NOTlibflashplayer.soNOT when I want to turn off flash, and another script to do the reverse. I suppose a similar thing would work for each plugin (at least the ones that come as shared libs like flash).
Another possibility, and one I've used for a while now because a blow it all away install of the next new version doesn't wipe it out, is to put your plugins directory tree out of the browsers own install tree, then symlink it to the real directory. To disable all plugins is then a matter of going to that browsers tree and blowing away the plugins symlink. Its easily restored.
-- Cheers, Gene
Hi Gene. Rahul's suggestion only suspends extensions (netcraft, add block plus, etc) , but not the plugins in about:plugins.
What would be ideal for me is having 2 desktop launchers for Firefox. One having all plugins in about:plugins enabled, and the other having no plugins in about:plugins enabled.
Perhaps I'm asking a bit much here, but folks from time to time have problems accesing sites, due to missing plugins, or faulty plugins, and being able to start Firefox with nothing in about:plugins, go to a site, and see what plugins the site wants would be really usefull.
Any idiot proof instructions for doing the above?
Nigel.