On Sunday 30 December 2007, Nigel Henry wrote: >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. Well, in the icon I launch it from is the path to the executable, located in the third tab of its properties, brought up by right clicking the icon. There is not any reason that I know of that this path to the executable couldn't be a script to set the options in one of the icons to disable the plugins by a cli option I think someone posted just now. There may be even simpler ways, but that is how I would approach it, while maintaining a fully functioning version at the same time in the other icon. I'd also change the icons name so you knew at a glance which one you were about to click on, but that's a given one shouldn't have to RTFM to discover, just common sense. :) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished." -- Goethe
