Re: Way to temporarily disable plugins in Firefox, when testing site requirements

On Sunday 30 December 2007, Nigel Henry wrote:
On Sunday 30 December 2007 21:24, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 30 December 2007, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:27:26 -0600

Steven Stern <subscribed-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There seems to be no quick and easy (and easily reversible) way to
disable plugins.

I have a little shell script that I use to rename libflashplayer.so
to NOTlibflashplayer.soNOT when I want to turn off flash, and
another script to do the reverse. I suppose a similar thing would
work for each plugin (at least the ones that come as shared libs
like flash).

Another possibility, and one I've used for a while now because a blow it
all away install of the next new version doesn't wipe it out, is to put
your plugins directory tree out of the browsers own install tree, then
symlink it to the real directory. To disable all plugins is then a matter
of going to that browsers tree and blowing away the plugins symlink. Its
easily restored.

--
Cheers, Gene

Hi Gene. Rahul's suggestion only suspends extensions (netcraft, add block
plus, etc) , but not the plugins in about:plugins.

What would be ideal for me is having 2 desktop launchers for Firefox. One
having all plugins in about:plugins enabled, and the other having no plugins
in about:plugins enabled.

Perhaps I'm asking a bit much here, but folks from time to time have
problems accesing sites, due to missing plugins, or faulty plugins, and
being able to start Firefox with nothing in about:plugins, go to a site,
and see what plugins the site wants would be really usefull.

Any idiot proof instructions for doing the above?

Nigel.

Well, in the icon I launch it from is the path to the executable, located in
the third tab of its properties, brought up by right clicking the icon.

There is not any reason that I know of that this path to the executable
couldn't be a script to set the options in one of the icons to disable the
plugins by a cli option I think someone posted just now. There may be even
simpler ways, but that is how I would approach it, while maintaining a fully
functioning version at the same time in the other icon. I'd also change the
icons name so you knew at a glance which one you were about to click on, but
that's a given one shouldn't have to RTFM to discover, just common sense. :)

--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with
the ideal never goes unpunished."
-- Goethe

--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Relevant Pages

  • Re: text anti-aliasing on semi-transparent background
    ... It doesn't use javascript for that purpose however. ... And since some of these JS files are "packed", you might have extra problems to track it down with a MS script debugger. ... It is my personal web site and therefore a test place of those things. ... Sometimes I rewrite plugins, like the language switcher which needed a lot of adjustments to make it work the way I wanted it. ...
    (comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets)
  • Re: Acrobat-5.08 plugin not working with Mozilla-1.4
    ... >> as to reset the listing of plugins. ... It seems like the difference between the gurulabs rpm and my version ... is that I wrote a wrapper shell script to set LC_CTYPE to avoid the ... original acroread script. ...
    (linux.redhat.misc)
  • Re: Suche CD-Ripp Software
    ... das Ogg-Format spricht gegen iTunes, ... PlugIns gab/gibt es trotzdem. ... funktioniert -- z.B. mittels Script ... "Ripp this where i want it" ...
    (de.comp.sys.mac.misc)
  • Re: bash question
    ... I am not editing a running script. ... in the original script but thought doing a "mv" would be better. ... mv plugins ../mozilla/plugins ... directory so I had to "rm" the directory prior to making the link. ...
    (comp.os.linux.misc)
  • Re: Way to temporarily disable plugins in Firefox, when testing site requirements
    ... disable plugins. ... I have a little shell script that I use to rename libflashplayer.so ... plugins directory tree out of the browsers own install tree, ...
    (Fedora)