Macromedia Flash - Good or bad?

[chrisqqgx4]

Ridiculous question, it's the bane of my surfing life. I cannot rid myself of that Macromedia Flash. It's insidious player is driving me mad!

Is there anyway I can get rid of Flash in the web pages I see? The sound, the incessant movement, the impossibility of getting rid of it. It's too much I tell you!

[Theodore Kurita]

Originally posted by chrisqqgx4
Ridiculous question, it's the bane of my surfing life. I cannot rid myself of that Macromedia Flash. It's insidious player is driving me mad!

Is there anyway I can get rid of Flash in the web pages I see? The sound, the incessant movement, the impossibility of getting rid of it. It's too much I tell you!

Possibly.

I know that there are several programs out there that block flash banner ads.

Also, there is a plugin for Mozilla that will stop advertisements alltogether for the most part.

I'll see if I can pull up some links for the programs.

[bigred]

:makes mental note to check back:

I'm sick of those fn things like I can't even explain. In the "old days" you could stop ads that had flickering motion by simply hitting the "stop" button in IEl, which still works on occasion, but increasingly less...

[Bfef]

I can recommed this program for removing unwanted Web content:

http://www.intermute.com/products/adsubtract.html

(free trial download, $29.95 to buy)

It gets rid of adverts, pop-ups, animations, background images, background music, auto-refresh and lots of other stuff.

I don't work for them - just a satisfied customer!

Cheers, Bfef.

[_Q_]

Originally posted by chrisqqgx4
Ridiculous question, it's the bane of my surfing life. I cannot rid myself of that Macromedia Flash. It's insidious player is driving me mad!

Is there anyway I can get rid of Flash in the web pages I see? The sound, the incessant movement, the impossibility of getting rid of it. It's too much I tell you!
If you're using Firefox, then you might try the flashblock (http://flashblock.mozdev.org/) extension. It leaves a "placeholder" on the page; and you can click to view the flash if and when it suits you.

[moopet]

Originally posted by chrisqqgx4
Is there anyway I can get rid of Flash in the web pages I see? The sound, the incessant movement, the impossibility of getting rid of it. It's too much I tell you! [/B]

If you're browsing with Firefox, start using the adblock extension (http://adblock.mozdev.org last time I looked) and add a filter of *.swf

Easy money.

[FFed]

Funny, I was having problems getting macromedia flash to work. The solution was to uninstall then reinstall macromedia flash. Macromedia provides an uninstall program which might be what you are looking for.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v391/asagan/Coffee.gif

http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15511