Hi all,
When using firefox I'm repeatedly confronted by a popup asking if I want to install flash (usually to view some advertising). This must happen dozens of times a day.
Does anybody know if it is possible to stop that, and if so, how to do it?
TIA, Mike Wright
On 08/29/2014 02:20 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
When using firefox I'm repeatedly confronted by a popup asking if I want to install flash (usually to view some advertising). This must happen dozens of times a day.
Does anybody know if it is possible to stop that, and if so, how to do it?
Go to Edit->Preferences->Content and check the box next to Block pop-up windows. If there's a site using a pop-up that you really need, you can always create an exception for it.
On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 14:20 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
When using firefox I'm repeatedly confronted by a popup asking if I want to install flash (usually to view some advertising). This must happen dozens of times a day.
I think you may be able to install the flashblock plugin, even without flash installed, and put an end to the flash-related parts of the page (which may include the install what you haven't got parts).
Give it a try, and let us know. I have installed flash, long ago, so I can't recall the behaviour beforehand.
On 08/29/2014 05:20 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
Hi all,
When using firefox I'm repeatedly confronted by a popup asking if I want to install flash (usually to view some advertising). This must happen dozens of times a day.
Be careful here. There exists a form of mal-ware which is a pop-up that tells you to "update" your flash player, but in fact, its an attempt to get you to install the mal-ware. The point that sticks out here is that the "flash" player that they are trying to install does not come from Adobe/Shockwave.
Does anybody know if it is possible to stop that, and if so, how to do it?
Stop going to sites with infected ads....
TIA, Mike Wright
Seriously, I have the flash-plugin installed directly from the adobe-linux repo, and from time-to-time on certain sites, I too see that pop-up. I close it as quick as I can (it doesn't like to be closed, either). Sometimes I have to kill firefox and restart it....
It can be a PITA.
On 08/29/2014 07:22 PM, Kevin Cummings wrote:
Be careful here. There exists a form of mal-ware which is a pop-up that tells you to "update" your flash player, but in fact, its an attempt to get you to install the mal-ware. The point that sticks out here is that the "flash" player that they are trying to install does not come from Adobe/Shockwave.
Some of these sites ask you to confirm that you want to leave the site. Brain damaged ones even ask if you click on a link. Dain bramaged ones will keep asking forever until you agree to stay on the site, to the point that you need to use kill -9 in a terminal to kill firefox completely.
If you've ever had a problem with that, here's what you do. First, you bookmark a page. When the dialog comes up, name it Escape, or whatever you think will remind you of what it's doing. Replace the url with this:
javascript:window.onbeforeunload=null;document.body.onbeforeunload=null;window.onunload=null;document.body.onunload=null;window.onblur=null;document.body.onblur=null;window.onkeypress=null;window.onkeyup=null;document.body.onkeypress=null;document.body.onkeyup=null;document.body.outerHTML='<body>Try%20closing%20now.</body>';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].outerHTML='<head></head>';void%200;
Save the bookmark and go back to surfing. The next time this happens, confirm that you want to leave; if it doesn't let you, click on this special bookmark. Then, when the popup comes back, confirm that you want to leave and it will now let you.
On 30/08/14 00:20, Mike Wright wrote:
Hi all,
When using firefox I'm repeatedly confronted by a popup asking if I want to install flash (usually to view some advertising). This must happen dozens of times a day.
Does anybody know if it is possible to stop that, and if so, how to do it?
If you mean the: "Would you like to install the plugin needed to display the media on this page?"
notification, you can stop it from appearing again by setting plugins.notifyMissingFlash to false in about:config in Firefox.
This will stop it from appearing again but the icon in the Firefox urlbar will still appear, to disable that icon too set plugins.hideMissingPluginsNotification to true. Note that this pref affects flash, java and quicktime plugins notifications.
1On Saturday 30 August 2014 02:50 AM, Mike Wright wrote:
Hi all,
When using firefox I'm repeatedly confronted by a popup asking if I want to install flash (usually to view some advertising). This must happen dozens of times a day.
Does anybody know if it is possible to stop that, and if so, how to do it?
TIA, Mike Wright
What do you think about this [1]
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
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