From jurosa at gmx.net  Wed Feb 21 23:39:40 2007
From: jurosa at gmx.net (Juro S.)
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:39:40 +0100
Subject: [Flashblock] Critics of FlashBlock
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Hello FlashBlock developers,
 
 
I must comment little bit your plugin FlashBlock 
for Mozzilas  (I installed it into Firefox 1.5.x to my 2GHz notebook).
 
 
I am not very satisfied with Flashblock,  especially with its small Options
possibilities !
 
1.)    User can allow flashes "from this site", but it doesn't mean this site
really, but the site of the clicked flash animation. That is actually wrong
style of allowing something unknown, which site is not visible for user !
When I allow it, so it is immediately written into white list and it will not be
blocked more, but a man usually want to see it once and then block it again !
Therefore the way is the blocking switch, where it is possible to see the all
flashes on the page and then again via switch it OFF, to block them again.
 
...because Firefox performance is hardly dependent on number of Tabs and the
number of Flashes displayed on all browsed pages in tabs, and therefore it is a
very important to have such plugin or tool as your Flashblock as well.
 
2.)    But the problem is, I would like to see what is the Flash about,  to see
the 1st static picture of the flash at least
and the best way would be to let the flashes play, but just once, without
replays in a cycle and then switch them off or just displaying the last
animation picture of the flash...
    And the best could be to have any context menu or Hotkey or Menu item in
Firefox,
which could play the selected flash or all flashes in the page, but without
allowing of all flashes from that site.
 
 
Thanks for your work   and for the reading my critics,
 
bye for now,    Juro
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From lorenzo at colitti.com  Thu Feb 22 18:12:43 2007
From: lorenzo at colitti.com (Lorenzo Colitti)
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:12:43 +0000
Subject: [Flashblock] Critics of FlashBlock
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Juro S. wrote:
> Therefore the way is the blocking switch, where it is possible to see
> the all flashes on the page and then again via switch it OFF, to
> block them again.

To do this you can drag the Flashblock icon to your firefox toolbar 
(right click on the back button -> customize toolbar). If you click the 
icon, Flashblock is disabled until you click the icon again.

> *2.)*    But the problem is, I would like to see what is the Flash 
> about,  to see the 1st static picture of the flash at least
> and the best way would be to let the flashes play, but just once, 
> without replays in a cycle and then switch them off or just displaying 
> the last animation picture of the flash...

I don't know if this is possible. Once Flash starts, is there a way to 
stop it? More to the point, is there a way to stop it that can't be 
disabled by the web designer?


Cheers,
Lorenzo

-- 
Lorenzo Colitti                          http://www.colitti.com/lorenzo/

From philip.chee at gmail.com  Thu Feb 22 19:05:08 2007
From: philip.chee at gmail.com (Philip Chee)
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:05:08 +0800
Subject: [Flashblock] Critics of FlashBlock
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On 23/02/07, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo at colitti.com> wrote:

> I don't know if this is possible. Once Flash starts, is there a way to
> stop it? More to the point, is there a way to stop it that can't be
> disabled by the web designer?

There is a complicated and not very dependable way of
stopping a flash movie depending on what parameters
are set on the object. The more important question is
when to stop it. Juro says to let it play once. But
what if it is a very loud streaming 45 minute flash
movie? "Once" means 45 minutes of annoyance.

Showing just the first frame is technically very
difficult if not impossible using the current
architecture of Flashblock. You might have better
luck using a greasemonkey script to interrogate
a flash movie and issue fscommands to it. But I
wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.

In either case I believe that Flashblock should remain
a small lightweight extension that does only one thing
and does it well. Trying to bloat it with creeping
featuritist isn't the way to go. If that is the direction
then writing an elaborate Greasemonkey script might be
better. And lastly Flashblock is open source. If anyone
disagrees with our direction, he or she is free to fork
it and add whatever features they want.

Just my 0.02 draskoobleniks.

Phil