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Weblog:   Viva NoScript!
Subject:   What about Flash?
Date:   2005-12-19 15:36:15
From:   sid_steward
Response to: What about Flash?

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.
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  • 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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