Mark Haney wrote:
Mike Wright wrote:
Hi all,
When using firefox since fc6 (I skipped fc5) I've noticed that many
images, suchas .swf, now display as a large pair of vertical bars,
somewhat simalar to the insignia worn by U.S. Army captains, that may
appear alone or on top of some other background.
On really lousy sites where it's flash or nothing or where most of the
adverts are flash this is (IMO) just plain ugly and really annoying.
It's as if someone is threating "Use flash or else we'll destroy your
user experience". If that's the case how about a little CSS ala "body
{display: none;}" and we wouldn't have to waste our time on sites like
that. <-- me being facetious ;) Whatever happened to "failing
gracefully", the mantra of web designers?
Does anybody know where these abuses have come from? Are they from the
Mozilla project or is this something peculiar to fedora's spin of
firefox or perhaps something peculiar to fedora itself?
Regardless of its origin I would like to stop it. Anybody know how to
change this behavior?
Forever indebted to whomever has a solution,
Mike Wright
If I get what you are saying, I see similar things, mostly over 'title
bars' I suppose is the best way to describe it (article headers on
Slashdot for instance). Generally, these go away if I scroll the bars
off the screen and then back down where I can see them. Is this similar
to your issue?
I don't know of a way to fix it other than the aforementioned scrolling,
but for flash objects in Firefox, flashbblock is the extension I never
go without. That and AdBlockPlus make life much easier for me on that
front.
HTH.
Thanks for the response, Mark.
The scrolling method didn't work for me.
Turns out it is a plugin called libswfdecmozilla.so, an adobe flash
player, that apparently doesn't work correctly for me. Just as well
because I despise flash (it's right up there with bling).
It is not mentioned on the firefox plugins sites and those sites only
explain how to install plugins, not remove them. From firefox's
location bar about:plugins shows it as the first plugin and enabled but
I can't figure out how to disable it short of removing it from the
plugins directory. The firefox help menu explains how to use the
edit->preferences section but I can't seem to locate any reference to
the nifty commands suchas about: etc. I know there is another one that
allows displaying/changing other settings, but I can neither figure out
the magic incantation nor how/where to find it.
Anyway, once the plugin was removed from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins the
pages appear (so far) to display correctly.
Mmmmm, much better now...
:m)
