| Weblog: | Viva NoScript! | |
| Subject: | What about Flash? | |
| Date: | 2005-12-19 15:25:46 | |
| From: | MtnBiker | |
| Can we get webmasters to quit using Flash? Slow unnegotiable sites are not much fun. But many bicycle related companies use them and sometimes I need to get information unattainable elsewhere. | ||
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What about Flash?
2005-12-19 15:36:15 Sid Steward |
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What about Flash?
2005-12-19 23:39:48 MtnBiker [Reply | View]
Can the script be modified to send a note to the president of the company that his pages are not being viewed because of Flash? ;) -
What about Flash?
2005-12-19 18:00:26 bazzargh [Reply | View]
been surfing with it for quite a while now, its indispensible. Its not that much pain to enable it for the sites you trust.
Couple of niggles:
- 'about:blank': some sites warn that scripts need enabled for 'about:blank'. This is apparently because of iframes loading scripts from their parent page, but it means they're not safe to globally allow (since the parent page's domain could be anywhere)
- you can't jump to the source of the blocked script to see what you're blocking. This isn't a big problem, but the about:blank issue made it obvious that there's no detail available.
- NoScript's whitelisting model is way safer than the blacklisting used in (eg) firefox's cookie prefs; but there's no shared per-domain prefs, or even ie-style zones - you have to trawl through the prefs of different extensions like adblock, noscript, prefs/privacy/cookies/exceptions, prefs/content/popups... this needs unified.
these are all minor though. NoScript better than a poke in the eye with a sharp script.
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Just installed it myself, so haven't field tested it.