Do this in about:config
It reduces the number of 3rd party downloads on a web page.
Also, make Flash loads optional.
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John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing laser drivers and controllers
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about:config? Do you mean options | privacy } tracking ?
Where is the Flash load setting?
No, you type 'about:config' in the URL bar. Presto, a thousand obscure settings.
Jeroen Belleman
Hmm. I don't have a setting called that. What version are you using?
I use both the FlashBlock and QuickJava add-ons, which let me turn that stuff on and off easily from the status bar.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
That was a very useful comment. Thanks.
Tools - Add-ons Select Plugins Select 'Ask to activate' for Shockwave Flash
I used to use Flashblock, but in the current version (I'm running
38.0.1) in the Plugins menu, there's a pulldown thing for each plugin, and you can select "ask to activate" for Flash.Other handy things are
Classic Theme Restorer
Switch Window Mode
InFormEnter
For example, to reverse the direction of the scroll wheel....
I think that about:config is all the settings. A lot of the addon programs just edit about:config.
Ah, okay, it's new then. On this machine I'm running CentOS 6.6 LTE, which supplies Firefox 31.6 updated with patches for things like Logjam and Heartbleed.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
but seems to stop gmail working
NT
Gmail is the ultimate privacy-invading user-tracking-cookie app. It should be stopped from working.
Works just fine here.
I am not sure if this a coincidence. But in the last days one site got really unusable, bringing FF to a total halt and the CPU usage to 100%. Applying your suggestion solved this. So, may be they fixed their mess at the same time or your suggestion did it. Anyway, thanks.
I'm not sure what exactly that setting does, but it makes some page loads blindly fast. So far, I don't see any bad side effects.
If anyone is getting around geographic restrictions (eg. BBC, Netflix, Hulu etc.) with a VPN this may be of interest:
Got this today:
OK, Gmail is not the ultimate snooper after all.
Dropbox is probably OK. The free version is 2 gbytes or something (worth pennies of hard drive these days) and the paid version is reasonable. They figure that is you use it, soon you'll want more storage.
just set it to forward to your regular email account.
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