Wondering where to go to disable Flash in your browser? I thought I’d put together this list as a bit of a reference both for myself and for anyone else who needs it

Firefox 3

Tools > Add-ons > Find Shockwave Flash and click Disable

IE6

Tools > Manage Add-ons > Find Shockwave Flash Object > Click the Disable radio button on the bottom left

Then refresh any pages you are viewing (Press Ctrl + F5 if it doesn’t appear to have disabled Flash).

IE7

Tools > Manage Add-ons > Enable or Disable Add-ons > Find Shockwave Flash Object > Click the Disable radio button on the bottom left

Then refresh any pages you are viewing if IE7 doesn’t do this for you (Press Ctrl + F5 if it still doesn’t appear to have disabled Flash).

IE8

Tools > Manage Add-ons > Make sure the “Toolbars and Extensions” button is selected on the left > Find Shockwave Flash Object > Click the Disable button on the bottom right

Then refresh any pages you are viewing (Press Ctrl + F5 if it doesn’t appear to have disabled Flash).

Chrome

Go to chrome://plugins/ in your address bar

Find Shockwave Flash and click the Disable link underneath it (the item should go grey).

After this it seems like you need to close any tabs you want flash to be disabled in and then go to the site again in a new tab.

Opera

It seems like in Opera if you’re wanting to keep things simple, you can only disable all plugins, not just one:

Tools > Quick Preferences > Untick “Enable Plugins”

Refresh the page if the effects don’t take effect straight away.

You can disable a certain plugin using the plugin ignore file if it’s something you want to make permanent. To do that go to opera:config#Network|PluginIgnoreFile in your address bar. Find the file on your filesystem that it shows you and open it in notepad or something along those lines to edit it.

Safari for Windows

It seems like in Safari (just like Opera) if you’re wanting to keep things simple, you can only disable all plugins, not just one:

Edit > Preferences > Security tab > Untick “Enable Plugins”