Disabling Plugins

I installed the Macromedia flash and now the flashing bothers me. I noticed that it can be disabled for mail and newsgroups under preferences. Can it be generally disabled without removing it from the plugin folder?

 

Hi ackerberg,

You might be interested in the Preferences Toolbar, which includes a "Kill Flash" option. There is no Mozilla Preference other than in Mail & Newsgroups.

I also found this batch file which is used to toggle Flash On/Off:

Code:

@echo off
if exist  "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\npswf32.dll" goto disable
if exist  "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\npswf32.dll.off" goto enable
echo Couldn't find a flash plugin.
echo.
goto usage

:disable
ren  "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\npswf32.dll"  "npswf32.dll.off "

echo Flash Disabled.
goto done

:enable
ren  "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\npswf32.dll.off"  "npswf32.dll "

echo Flash Enabled.
goto done

:usage
echo You must specify the path to your browser's plugins directory.
echo Put the path in double quotes if it includes spaces.
echo For example, toggleflash.bat  "c:\Program Files\Mozilla\bin\plugins "

:done

Ramona

 

Thank you Ramona. You always get it right!
Bob

 

Always a pleasure ackerberg!

Ramona

 

Ramona,
there is so much Flash stuff, aboard, that I am not sure if it is possible to handle everything. Just yesterday I found out that NPSWF32.dll, v.7, interfered with some obvious Flash in NS7.1. I threw the file out of the plugins folder, and things started to work normally. However, later, I found np32dsw.dll called Shockwave plugin for Netscape director.
But Kill Flash is really nice.