Patrick Catanzariti » flash http://www.patrickcatanzariti.com Online portfolio and blog of Sydney based web designer/developer - Patrick Catanzariti. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:41:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 How to disable Flash in various browsers http://www.patrickcatanzariti.com/2010/08/how-to-disable-flash-in-various-browsers/ http://www.patrickcatanzariti.com/2010/08/how-to-disable-flash-in-various-browsers/#comments Sat, 21 Aug 2010 05:10:16 +0000 Patrick Catanzariti http://www.patrickcatanzariti.com/?p=487 Read the rest]]> 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”

]]> http://www.patrickcatanzariti.com/2010/08/how-to-disable-flash-in-various-browsers/feed/ 0 Finding out what Flash version you have http://www.patrickcatanzariti.com/2009/12/finding-out-what-version-of-flash-player-you-have/ http://www.patrickcatanzariti.com/2009/12/finding-out-what-version-of-flash-player-you-have/#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:44:34 +0000 Patrick Catanzariti http://www.patrickcatanzariti.com/?p=170 Read the rest]]> There have been a few times when I’ve need to find out what version of flash player I had installed on my PC. For example, WordPress’ older flash file uploader doesn’t work correctly after a certain version, so it’s always good to know which version I have (sadly, I didn’t have the version that WordPress’ flash file uploader works in). I’m pretty sure WordPress’ newer flash uploader works though I haven’t tested it out yet.

For anyone wondering how to find out what version of Flash Player you have, you just visit this link and it tests it for you: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html

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