On Sunday 30 December 2007 21:24, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 30 December 2007, Tom Horsley wrote: > >On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:27:26 -0600 > > > >Steven Stern <subscribed-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> There seems to be no quick and easy (and easily reversible) way to > >> disable plugins. > > > >I have a little shell script that I use to rename libflashplayer.so > >to NOTlibflashplayer.soNOT when I want to turn off flash, and > >another script to do the reverse. I suppose a similar thing would > >work for each plugin (at least the ones that come as shared libs > >like flash). > > Another possibility, and one I've used for a while now because a blow it > all away install of the next new version doesn't wipe it out, is to put > your plugins directory tree out of the browsers own install tree, then > symlink it to the real directory. To disable all plugins is then a matter > of going to that browsers tree and blowing away the plugins symlink. Its > easily restored. > > -- > Cheers, Gene Hi Gene. Rahul's suggestion only suspends extensions (netcraft, add block plus, etc) , but not the plugins in about:plugins. What would be ideal for me is having 2 desktop launchers for Firefox. One having all plugins in about:plugins enabled, and the other having no plugins in about:plugins enabled. Perhaps I'm asking a bit much here, but folks from time to time have problems accesing sites, due to missing plugins, or faulty plugins, and being able to start Firefox with nothing in about:plugins, go to a site, and see what plugins the site wants would be really usefull. Any idiot proof instructions for doing the above? Nigel.
