From drjdcollins at yahoo.com.au  Sun Aug 10 18:55:43 2008
From: drjdcollins at yahoo.com.au (Dr J D Collins)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:55:43 +1000
Subject: [Flashblock] Problems with Flashblock
Message-ID: <000501c8fb55$5ff14b20$3401eddc@nsw.optushome.com.au>

I installed and enabled Flashblock. I found a site where I wanted to
allow Flashblock ie www.regular-expressions.info and added this to the
whitelist. I closed and reopened the site but flash was still blocked. I
closed and reopened Firefox but this did not help. How do you get it to
work? Can sites be added to the whitelist if Flashblock is enabled? It
would help if a message appeared (with the option to remove further
messages) whenever Add is clicked telling you any steps necessary to
activate. Rather than having a message displayed about illegal characters
an instruction saying to omit the starting http:// and the ending / would
help as I copied the website from the Foxtel display and pasted it into
the add box so there shouldn't be illegal characters. A better option
would be to simply remove these when moving the site to the whitelist.

Getting a site on the whitelist is rather lengthy. Couldn't there be a
menu item when you right click the page (not the blocked image) that gave
the option "Add this site to the Flashblock whitelist".

My question on steps to get the whitelist working could have been asked
before but the only way I can see to look in the subject list in the
archives is to click any month's postings to read the subjects, click
another month's postings and read the subjects and so on. This is
impractical. Couldn't there be a list of all topics so they can be
examined all at once. Better still would be an FAQ to clear up particular
issues that arise from the postings so that questions would not be
repeated over and over.

Regards
John Collins


From philip.chee at gmail.com  Mon Aug 11 03:28:53 2008
From: philip.chee at gmail.com (Philip Chee)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:28:53 +0800
Subject: [Flashblock] Problems with Flashblock
In-Reply-To: <000501c8fb55$5ff14b20$3401eddc@nsw.optushome.com.au>
References: <000501c8fb55$5ff14b20$3401eddc@nsw.optushome.com.au>
Message-ID: <8e8943620808110328w7a3d62c9gf82ccd25bb2101bd@mail.gmail.com>

2008/8/11 Dr J D Collins <drjdcollins at yahoo.com.au>:

> I installed and enabled Flashblock. I found a site where I wanted to
> allow Flashblock ie www.regular-expressions.info and added this to the
> whitelist. I closed and reopened the site but flash was still blocked. I
> closed and reopened Firefox but this did not help. How do you get it to
> work?

Either of these should work. I had a quick look at that site and checked
various pages and I could not see any flash at all.

> Can sites be added to the whitelist if Flashblock is enabled? It

Yes.

> would help if a message appeared (with the option to remove further
> messages) whenever Add is clicked telling you any steps necessary to
> activate. Rather than having a message displayed about illegal characters
> an instruction saying to omit the starting http:// and the ending / would
> help as I copied the website from the Foxtel display and pasted it into
> the add box so there shouldn't be illegal characters. A better option
> would be to simply remove these when moving the site to the whitelist.

You are right. I'll try to improve the wording.

> Getting a site on the whitelist is rather lengthy. Couldn't there be a
> menu item when you right click the page (not the blocked image) that gave
> the option "Add this site to the Flashblock whitelist".

If you go to View->Toolbars->Customize... you can drag the Flashblock
toolbar button on to a toolbar. This button has a drop-marker which when
clicked reveals a menu one item of which is "Allow Flash from this site"

> My question on steps to get the whitelist working could have been asked
> before but the only way I can see to look in the subject list in the
> archives is to click any month's postings to read the subjects, click
> another month's postings and read the subjects and so on. This is
> impractical. Couldn't there be a list of all topics so they can be
> examined all at once. Better still would be an FAQ to clear up particular
> issues that arise from the postings so that questions would not be
> repeated over and over.

We do have a comprehensive FAQ located (unsurprisingly) at our FAQ page:
<http://flashblock.mozdev.org/faq.html>

Phil

From lorenzo at colitti.com  Mon Aug 11 11:19:06 2008
From: lorenzo at colitti.com (Lorenzo Colitti)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:19:06 -0700
Subject: [Flashblock] Problems with Flashblock
In-Reply-To: <8e8943620808110328w7a3d62c9gf82ccd25bb2101bd@mail.gmail.com>
References: <000501c8fb55$5ff14b20$3401eddc@nsw.optushome.com.au>
	<8e8943620808110328w7a3d62c9gf82ccd25bb2101bd@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <48A0829A.7010403@colitti.com>

Philip Chee wrote:
>> the add box so there shouldn't be illegal characters. A better option
>> would be to simply remove these when moving the site to the whitelist.
> 
> You are right. I'll try to improve the wording.

I suppose we could attempt to parse the URL and just extract the host 
from it, but what if the user has specified a path component too? 
Perhaps we can parse the URL and accept it if it only contains a 
protocol (http or https), hostname, and no path.

Cheers,
Lorenzo

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

From philip.chee at gmail.com  Mon Aug 11 20:57:03 2008
From: philip.chee at gmail.com (Philip Chee)
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:57:03 +0800
Subject: [Flashblock] Problems with Flashblock
In-Reply-To: <48A0829A.7010403@colitti.com>
References: <000501c8fb55$5ff14b20$3401eddc@nsw.optushome.com.au>
	<8e8943620808110328w7a3d62c9gf82ccd25bb2101bd@mail.gmail.com>
	<48A0829A.7010403@colitti.com>
Message-ID: <8e8943620808112057x232253bx2b29ffe0724cc1cf@mail.gmail.com>

2008/8/12 Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo at colitti.com>:

> I suppose we could attempt to parse the URL and just extract the host from
> it, but what if the user has specified a path component too? Perhaps we can
> parse the URL and accept it if it only contains a protocol (http or https),
> hostname, and no path.

A common request that we also allow a path component in our whitelist
entries. If I fix this I'll probably also fix our code to allow paths.

Phil