#1589 NORM Untriag: ability to disable gnash

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#1589: ability to disable gnash
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  Reporter:  dilinger     |       Owner:  rsavoye  
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Untriaged
 Component:  distro       |     Version:           
Resolution:               |    Keywords:           
  Verified:  0            |  
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Comment (by rsavoye):

 Replying to [ticket:1589 dilinger]:
 > Flash ads suck, and on XOs, they slow things down considerably.   It
 would be really  nice to have the ability to disable gnash from the
 browser (either on a per-page basis, a per-domain basis, or for all
 pages).   I'm not sure what kind of interface would be the best for doing
 that sort of thing.


 Gnash currently supports a whitelist/blacklist, but I assume you mean
 loading the original Flash ad, and not content loaded by the Flash movie
 itself. On a desktop, most people use AdBlock to do this, but on a non-
 mozilla based browser this may become a more mentioned feature request.

 For the X0, you'd almost want to not fire up the Flash plugin (which is
 what AdBlock handles) unless you really want that page. The question would
 be should any blocking done at the time Gnash is launched be based on the
 domain, the Flash movie name, or both ? This would have to be added to the
 NSAPI based plugin, as opposed to Gnash itself. There is an existing
 option for your $HOME/.gnashrc file called "pluginSound", that for now at
 least lets you turn off the sound when Gnash is functioning as a browser
 plugin.

 Yes, I also dislike Flash ads. Until I got Gnash working as a plugin, I
 had never realized how the full the Web had become with Flash Ads, since I
 had never installed the proprietary Flash plugin.

 I just noticed AdBlock is a link on trac here, are there plans to add
 AdBlock to the web activity ?

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