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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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  • Sid Steward photo What about Flash?
    2005-12-19 15:36:15  Sid Steward | O'Reilly Author [View]

    In the 'Advanced' tab in the NoScript Options dialog (Tools > Extensions > NoScript > Options), they offer "Additional restrictions for untrusted sites" such as: "Forbid Macromedia Flash" and "Forbid Java." Sounds like the trick.

    Just installed it myself, so haven't field tested it.

    • What about Flash?
      2005-12-19 23:39:48  MtnBiker [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 [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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