Pile of Dross

Last week, I found a website that has been rendered unusuable due to Flash. And this isn’t a kneejerk Flash-hating reaction- the website had added a flash object that popped up when clicked on. However, the layering seem to be screwed up, which meant that the normal flash menu items which were hidden when the popup had been clicked were unclickable even when the popup hadn’t been clicked. Possibly this is a Gecko rendering bug (I tried both Firefox and Camino) but it sufficently irritated me that I wandered off in search of a way of eliminating flash problems. The obvious answer is of course to remove the flash player, but flash is used on various sites I visit for navigation menus and the like, so that’s not really an option. First I came across Nuke Anything Enhanced. A nifty little firefox extension that adds an item to the context menu allowing you to remove items from webpages, unfortunately the I can’t seem to get a context menu up on flash objects its not a whole solution. Next thing that I found was FlashBlock. Another firefox extension, this one prevents the loading of flash objects, leaving an icon to click on if you wish to show it. This in combination with Nuke Anything Enhanced made the irritating webpage usable again.

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