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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.

Why Forced Flash Shutdown Is Bad

Posted on2015/07/142015/07/15AuthorTruXterLeave a comment

Web browsers have taken upon themselves to block the flash on websites with a warning that the website is unsafe. Instead of just putting the notice over the area the flash is in, they put a notification at the top of the page.

Adobe tries to help with a “how to enable flash” walk through but Firefox no longer allows this

The act of closing flash from websites, though the intention of preventing “Viruses” is a great idea, bit it is a false claim to say that flash is the most vulnerable software used on websites.
sure the websites that you get a virus from are most likely using flash. This does not in any sense say that you are getting the virus from flash. If anything you are getting the virus from a tricked up java script.
Some of the simplest viruses can be written in visual basic. And they are likely the utmost common virus injected through the web today.

and yes your HTML5 puffy site is using a VB file at some point.

If you are seeing a GIF as your saving grace from flash. Then you are sadly mistaken. You are just guzzling down unnecessary bandwidth.

This is just a simple push to bring everyone to design HTML5 websites. This stripping the flash use function of the web browsers to make the websites “Responsive” and move everyone to HTML5, is sort of like extortion.
HTML5 and responsive sites, though they look cooler on your cell phone, are less website, less informative. And simply a dumbed down puffy website. You can’t even zoom most html5 websites to see the details.

Simply put, a responsive website is a website dumbed down to work with a cell phone. This is software reducing it’s self to allow the hardware to keep up. This is how you plateau in hardware acceleration. When the software exceeds the ability of the hardware, the hardware must evolve. When the hardware and the software agree to stabilize, no one evolves. If they would have done this years ago we’d still be looking at black screens with yellow/green text. And we’d be happy with that because we couldn’t imagine it getting any better.

Besides, there are far too many websites out there that I have to keep accepting the flash to load because of this 3 ring web browser shun, and it is getting annoying. They could end up upsetting ADOBE and causing a huge court issue of this.

Simply put: it would be like Mcdonalds Taco bell and pizza hutt stopping using card board because it smells less cool. Now we all have to carry our food in wet paper bags because a few kids think it’s the bee’s knees and the next evolution.

Complacency is not evolution.

Let the users chose what they want to see.

How I fixed my Firefox to work with flash again

When did Tech Forums Become So Useless?

Posted on2013/05/01AuthorTruXterLeave a comment

Found myself in a tech support forum looking for help, leaving there very unhelped, unsatisfied and kind of bullied. Tech forums seem to have become the guy that argues the best, is the go-to guy for tech help these days. and that seems to have killed off a lot of people’s desire to visit tech forums. This is my experience with the latest forum I went to… and a little back story.

I was gifted a Motorola Droid Bionic by a coworker. This Phone was built for the Verizon network. The network I have my cell phone service from is Cricket. After some research, I find that I can get my bionic flashed to Cricket’s network.
At the time, I also had a roommate who had an android cell phone, that was on the Verizon network, and she was wanting to try Cricket. Since I didn’t have the money to get my Bionic flashed just yet, we took her Android to the local Cricket store and had it flashed to their network. We compared her phone signal, to the signal I was getting with my old phone. Her signal was a considerable amount better than mine. and my phone was built for the Cricket network. So I decided that I was definitely flashing this new Bionic to Cricket.
That night, my roommate got an update notice to her phone. So.. Like any normal person would do, she clicked the “accept” button for the update request. Next morning my roommate had no signal. She was not receiving text messages and she was not receiving phone calls. She was unable to send a text massage and she was unable to make a phone call. So, back to the Cricket store we went. The clerk was very helpful and asked my roommate if she accepted an update notice, and my roommate like a trooper admitted this with a smile. The clerk said “yep, that’s what kills our flashings. First one is free for you ma’am, but please do not accept the next update or you will be in here again getting your phone flashed back to Cricket and it will not be free”. We thanked the clerk and came back a few hours later to pick up the phone. Sure enough, there was an update notice on her phone, she hit cancel and then fiddled around with the phone a bit and then disabled the notice.
After seeing that, I booted up my Motorola Bionic, connected to my router and searched for an update. No update available. A few days later (pay day) I booted the phone yet again and checked for any software updates I could. None except Facebook but nothing for the operating system of the phone. I take my phone into the Cricket store and pay my $75 to get the phone flashed, come back an hour later to pick it up. Sure enough… Update notice. at the very exact second I saw the notice, the clerk told me “Do not update the operating system (may have said firmware but I have my doubts)”.

So I go home and search for ways to disable the update notice. I came across cricketusers.com . I posted a simple question trying to find where the heck my roommate went in her settings to disable the update notice. This turned into a bunch of over zealous tech tards trying to get me to reflash the phone. all I wanted to know, is where in the menu did she find the setting to disable the notice. Since the roommate wasn’t very techy, she really has no clue what she did. and that is brain murder in it’s self. but she got it done.

So now I know why that place is empty and no one goes there. Techy dudes that get angry because people do not want to follow their misguided misinformed advice. I don’t care if that guy was Dr. Jacob W. Cricket. He wasn’t listening to the issue and how simple the solution could be. Just in a mindset of “I know better, listen to me…. rebuild everything”.

and this is what killed forums. Newbies.

Truckster the Video Game

Posted on2011/10/07AuthorTruXter

Here is a video game called Truckster. This is a car game that involves Delivering items from location to location in set times or better.

Play Truckster 2

The objective of Truckster is to deliver items from one location to the next.
press up to accelerate, press left to do wheely press right to make front dive down and rear raise up.
Excellent game for killing time at work.

Great Website Templates

Posted on2011/06/132011/10/18AuthorTruXter

First thing, is you need a good webhost that is lo cost and dependable. like powweb . Go in and see the cost of two years up front, you will be shocked. The longer you sign up for, the longer you can go without having to bother with registration. Grat place with fast service. And Tech support you can actually speak to.

I am always looking for ideas for my websites, or websites that I am working on. So I cruise through lots of website templates, looking for the latest webdesign ideas.

Clean Lay Out Template
Etags Website Template
Nice list of Website HTML Templates
Blue Website Template
Free Flash Templates From Flashmo Flashmo has probably the best Free flash website addons. The ones that have a fee, are surely the best templates you can buy out off the internet. The free templates are the best free available anywhere.
Free Css Templates These Css Templates are free, and they are also from the same people who give you flashmo flash templates. Except these are free CSS Website templates.

Epic Meme Videos

Posted on2010/05/122010/05/18AuthorComputer Tweaker

Over the years, the internet has given us some ftunny, yet weird, still kind of cool videos. Here are the all time favorites for this site. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

What is a meme

WEEEEEEEEEEE

Peanut Butter Jelly

All your Base

Star Wars Kid

UmaNuma

Banana Phone

Badger

Tech Tv Blooper

In the spirit of the funnies.
some of my oldest videos

The boss

The Run Away

Mac Shuns More Flash

Posted on2010/04/10AuthorGregSnippets1 Comment

Apple Bans Flash Compilers?
I know this is about APPS. but what backlash can it cause?… well you see it goes like this……..

So Apple takes another stab at adobe. I myself hate the pdf reader. Other than that. I am ok with Adobe. Question is, what will Apple do next ? Drop the partnership with photoshop? Will they upset adobe enough that adobe decides to forget apple exists all together? If that happens then apple will have to do something that would make mac users cringe. Insert an opensource software…! YIKES!!! Completely unheard of. Just kidding with the sarcasm. Mac has bought many opensource and Linux patents. Linux users say it keeps Linux alive. I think it limits Linux software and makes developers have to start over.

So, Let’s cross our fingers and hope mac goes corel.

Will this kill youtube? or will youtube and other flash sites (or lack of) be the reason people stop buying mac products? I am certain there are more users of youtube than there are of mac users.

Myspace Street Racing By Zynga

Posted on2009/11/05AuthorTruXter

This game is great, it’s exercise for the brain. The instructions if they exist, are so many clicks deep in a f.a.q. page I will not bother locating. Better exercise for the brain figuring the stuff out. I hate Faq pages. How can you have predetermined frequently asked questions? If you had issues in beta, that’s bugs!

I love the game, I am a car nut and I know this is all text based with cutesy pictures, but jeese this is addictive. and i know it’s all about advertisements, keep you coming back keeping adverts served fresh and new to you every day.

I have so many level one clutches, you can’t even see the rest of my clkutches, they go below what the frame will show in their embed code.. Gay. that is a stupid bug. I have even gone and bought every car available just so I could install clutches level-5 on each car until i dig my way out. Not a chance. That stupid magic box game is pointless, why would you pay to play that? you can’t get to you recent clutches..

Racing is fun, but upgrades do not come like they look. a 5power on a clutch does not equal your score plus five, it is you original score before last clutch plus five. kind of lame

Myspace Mobsters Tips list

Posted on2009/06/15AuthorGame News

Weapons list

Mobsters Cliche

Prizes for Completing missions Platinum

How to get 200 more Energy

How to make a Hitlister

Full screen Mobsters

How to get your Hitlist Value up

Effective Accounts on Mobsters

I created a forum on one of my other websites and started to just blot down all the stuff I notice as I go along

Weapons list reflects typical weapons as you are at my level . Cliche is just a list of crap I am sick of hearing, and well when you are a pro at the game, anything you say from that last, will just irritate someone who is not as new as you… really saying something you have seen said so many times, does not qualify you as something greater.

How to get 200 energy, well it tells you how without installing crap or giving your password out. When you read it and find out, you are going to kick yourself for not seeing it. lol it is litterally under your nose.

full screen mobbies, just takes you to the mobsters flash ap circumventing the myspace iframe. I use it because that stupid messenger is poorly coded and uses some of my screen relestate. I bought a large screen so I can see more, force me to block my screen a bit and you really upset me.

How to get your hitlist value up, well if your value goes up, you get more people adding you to top mobbies, giving you more energy for missions. and you are more costly to HL.

Effective accounts on the game?? WEll simply stated, you can create all the accounts you want, meaning you can create some accounts for specific tasks while in battle.

And yes I link to my other website, because I want you people to add stuff, so sign up and add to the stuff in my list, or heck argue with me.

Work Pc bad performance, Pci Slot Need Help

Posted on2009/02/04AuthorPoit388

Ok I am going to post a copy and paste of what I was saying in forum on pcpitstop. Not much help there, even though the title says, well… you will see..
actual convo : http://forums.pcpitstop.com/index.php?showtopic=165060

<i>I am using a dell dimension 3100 with a 2.9 g single core
2 gigs pc 3200
I have a video card in this old beast I bought from staples
the video card is a verto pny 8400 pci (not pci-e)
when I take the bench tests without the card, I get a better score in 2d.
in fact , if i have the card in it takes about 45 seconds to perform that part of the test.
without the card it is instant.
Anyone have any old pci tips I can use to get this thing off th ground and moving faster?:
I really need the tips, since I am limited to this machine and use it for cad and flash and photoshop

I understand that.
But the 2d takes about 40 seconds to complete.
as apposed to less than a second like it used to do.
or as it does with my home pc. i’m just looking for some old school tweaks.

Bios only allows me to select auto or onboard. sadly enough.

I have two gig pc3200 (the machine is a bit dated but it’s a work pc)
when I am in cad, as I scroll down pages I actually see waves like as if I haven’t installed drivers
although it will allow me to crank video setting to 32 bit and 1280/1024 and i have the nvidia control panel
just like if if the drivers are installed. so it acts like there is no drivers while it shows drivers. have uninstalled and reinstalled and updated and updated . I think I’m at the latest 181.22 or something .

The thing acts worse than if I used onboard.
I mean while in adobe flash, in autodesk,cad, photoshop, or anything that uses video. I have probably 12 grand in software installed on this machine so moving to another is not foreseeable any time soon.
and yes I am a long time pc gamer so I know how to reduce start up programs and disable items as I run another that uses tons of resources.
as i remember there used to be a driver addon we used to use for agp slots called a “gart”. and if i remember correctly, there was something for pci slots, but of course it’s a dell pc so drivers and software are limited.

I am tempted to locate a modded bios for this and set it so I can turn that dang onboard gpu off.

and yes what finch was saying is perfectly correct. But for the 2d segment of the pcpitctop test (the part with the descending rings) to take 45+ seconds. Something is clearly wrong. I have taken this test on probably all of about 17 computers here in the office, some with radeon pci-e some radeon agp some with nvidia agp and or pci-e some with onboard gpu and the ring portion always takes less than a blink. never does it take it take 45+ seconds except on my machine with an 8400 gs pci card or on a machine that has no drivers yet (we recently added monitors to a few pcs for the ladies here to watch a buncha junk going on with our installers and tracking). i just know i am forgetting to do something.</i>
Sorry, but reallu I am that dang lazy, I wrote all that out once, and it seemed to hit the mark. but erm it fell on wrong ears, or at wrong pace.
Heck I dunno.

and yes, that is pci slot, not pci express.