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How I Re-enabled Flash on FireFox

Posted on2015/07/152015/07/16AuthorTruXterLeave a comment

In a previous post you see I explain why killing Flash is bad. So this post is to show how I enabled my Flash on firefox (which Is a bit of a task because I have to careful and accountable for my actions, so I do not recommend you try this)
I got sick of accepting flash on every single website I went to. Flas is in website ads used by Google and other Advertisers, so the notice came up on every single website I traveled to. This is an annoyance. Well I solved taht issue, and this is how.
I opened Mozilla FireFox and typed this in the address bar
about:config
Then I pressed enter.
Then in the search box I typed
blocklist

When the list of items with “blocklist” in their title populated, I look for
extensions.blocklist.enabled
I right click that line and change it’s status from “True” to “False” (this was a temporary fix. Read the update below)

Then go to my list of plugins and check their status and see if all of my plug ins are up to date. Then update all plug ins.

I am currently looking for a way to change the items in the blocklist so that I can exclude Flash.

**update**
From that same blocklist (search results posted above), you will see there are 2 blocklist URLs. The longer of the two is the one that I downloaded and saved to my documents folder.
“extensions.blocklist.url; https://blocklist.addons.mozilla.org/blocklist/3/%APP_ID%/%APP_VERSION%/%PRODUCT%/%BUILD_ID%/%BUILD_TARGET%/%LOCALE%/%CHANNEL%/%OS_VERSION%/%DISTRIBUTION%/%DISTRIBUTION_VERSION%/%PING_COUNT%/%TOTAL_PING_COUNT%/%DAYS_SINCE_LAST_PING%/”

Now say “C:\Users\TRUXTER\Documents\%DAYS_SINCE_LAST_PING%.xml”

I told firefox to check there for the blocklist. Next, I edited the XML file in notepad++ and stripped out all valid Flash descriptions and left the known virus ones that aren’t really flash Or what looked like Firefox is blocking a real phishing site.

Changed blocklist status back to enabled/true.
Rebooted Firefox and and began surfing the internet and flash is working fine again.

Double checked my plugins and everything is fine again

Only issue is I have no idea if this will go back to normal when Firefox quits this stupid game and puts things back to normal.

I would upload this and let you all download the edited one but I don’t want any liability for anything you do, so I am not advising you try this at all. Just telling you what I did. It wasn’t a whole lot of work, just about 3 minutes of hitting “find next” and deleting lines out. From opening bracket to closing brackets.

New job!

Posted on2007/12/26AuthorTruXter1 Comment

Probably not the most techy news I have done here but I got a new job working for a company called “HiTech” Fire detection.

A fire alarm and sprinkler company from out in Houston area. The guys here are great and very relaxed. Kinda strange to me because I have never been this comfortable in a work environment.

Well forget all the intros let’s get to the bone. I seem to have been assigned a task of building a website. See this guy Eein that I am working with built a site straight from css and tables and stuff which of course i think is fine and runs circles around the current site . But the owner saw me messing around with some flash ap and just jacking around with my desktop and a web template . Now see, I didn’t really want the task of building the site, simply because if it looks lame to me I will rebuild it , and rebuild it and it will never be finished. I have scrapped it like five times now already.

Well if a site is what they want then a site is what they get. You see though, I like the site that Eein built. It just looks better and is more sound and can be easily updated when needed, and it can be crawled at any time by any search bot. The owners of the site want a flash intro and a flash ap on the page , a flash ap that I really do not want to get buried in. They want a room to navigate in with a fire extinguisher and a sprinkler and a horn strobe and a lighted exit sign above the door in the back. I am sure I can do it, but man I would hate to have to edit it. I can edit it but dang .

You guys tell me what looks better. I really like Eein’s site I have said that from the start and am really against a bloated flash site. The current site is done in mostly Iframes and I really cannot see a bot crawling that which really is not a helpfull thing, ya know? See I know that they are going to be expanding to Austin Dallas and San Antonio real soon, like before the end of 2008. They surely will be wanting an update to the site telling people in those areas that it would not take long for us to get our guys on the site. Now that is becoming bigger work. I am still learning the ropes of the job and if I spend all my time on the clock building a site, when my evaluation period ends and I don’t know anything……. dude I will be screwed.

Looking at hours of photoshop and adobe flash cs3 man,!!!!

The dell machine and adobe flash cs3 and if you could zoom way in, you would see photoshop somewhere in the taskbar. This sad little machine is a trooper though, it is doing all that with only 512 mb ram, minimum for flash install. The 3.2g pentium is the life saver there though.

looks like houston.com has them in the forefront

Makeshift Flash Mod

Posted on2007/11/27AuthorTruXter

I was asked to work on site for a company that specializes in loans and stuff, industrial loans and business loans and so on. They paid me very well for doing this.

I did this whole thing and they later sent me an intro they wanted added into the flash file, Heck I had never worked with flash before I even began to try and work on this site, so bare with me for my lack of knowledge of dreamweaver and or what ever that cs3 program was I was using to edit the .fla files with. If you go to starlitefundinginc.com you will see that I did the intro as they requested. If you look closely you will see that i used an iframe to set the size of the flash file and I believe I used to tables to keep it centered. Maybe not. But after the first flash file runs it’s full term I set the html page it was on to forward to the next page after 27 seconds. With using the Iframe the site stays focused on the main address in the address bar, This was simple because the page does not actually change, So I only had to do one <title></title> in the html listingteh many types of loans and funding they provide. The owners of that company did not want any text on the page, even though I tried what I could to explain how search engines work these days.

What I am wondering is if there is way that I can some how combine two flash files and make it one file? Is this even neccessary? Would it be much of a hassle for me to squish em both together ?

I mean they get plenty of people looking to check out the site and stuff for corperate loans and stuff or what ever they are looking for. I mean what they are looking for is beyond my knowledge or ability to care greater than assumption. I do see hits on the site so I am not sure how the search engines are ranking this site, I never find it in searches unless I do a specified search for the company. I never seem to find it under any form of loan I try.

If anyone knows a way of putting something in the html to increase hits to that site hit me up with a tip or something, or if anyone knows how to smoosh the two swf files into or if it is even worth the bother hit me up. I kind of figgured that would be a huge wonkin file and no one would actually sit and wait while that loaded.but hit me up if you have a clue.

Really if I had better knowledge of adobe products I probably would have made a ton more money on this project, But my knowledge of dreamweaver is quite limited. The site does not make me happy. I know it isn’t my site and the owners of the company seemed happy with it, I just wish I could have done a little bit better.