[Flashblock] Deferring download of swf files

[liam321 at 123mail.org]

I asked the same question a while ago, and even got Phil to update the
first sentence of the webpage http://flashblock.mozdev.org/  webpage to
make this clear.

Perhaps it could be even clearer..? How about:

"Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla, Firefox, and Netscape
browsers. It takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia
Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from downloading
(thus saving bandwidth and speeding up delivery). It then leaves
placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and view
the Flash content."

Cheers :-)
Hugo Heden


On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:19:32 +0800, "Philip Chee"
<philip.chee at gmail.com> said:
> On 18/10/05, Chris Jakeman <cjakeman at bigfoot.com> wrote:
> 
> > I understand that with FlashBlock in place, Flash files are still
> > downloaded but not displayed unless requested. Has any thought been
> > given to skipping the download entirely, saving bandwidth and speeding
> > up delivery? Is this possible in a Firefox extension.
> 
> All recent and current versions of Flashblock block the download of
> flash objects [1]. Only very old versions allowed flash to be
> downloaded but not displayed.
> 
> [1] There is a 10ms delay before Flashblock kicks in for each object,
> so some flash *may* *start* to download, but once Flashblock activates
> all downloading stops.
> 
> Phil
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