On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:36:23PM -0500, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > For months off-and-on I've tried to add Java and/or Flash to Mozilla. > > Nothing I've done seems to work. > > I've got something of the reverse situation. > > I *don't* like plugins. A browser is a browser. Embedding world+dog > into it is broken fscking design. If someone has a freestanding Flash > viewer, I might be interested in launching a flash animation to it on > the very rare occasion (Death of StickDeath is about the only compelling > Flash I've seen period). > > Otherwise, I neither want Flash in my browser nor want to be told "this > site uses Flash, click to download plugin" (which doesn't work anyway). > How to disable plugin reminders -- flash or otherwise?
I think there are two things you need to do, one is to open Netscape and open the preferences dialog under the Edit menu, go to Navigator --> Applications. One of the applications is the default plugin */* - delete it. Then edit the file ~/.netscape/plugin-list AFTER you've exited Netscape and remove these three lines: /usr/lib/netscape/476/communicator/plugins/libnullplugin.so 970875501 *: .*:All types; pluginName=Netscape Default Plugin pluginDescription=The default plugin handles plugin data for mimetypes and exten sions that are not specified and facilitates downloading of new plugins. Note that you'll still be prompted because it can't find a plugin for that mime-type...however, instead of deleting the null plugin altogether, you might be able to figure out a shell script or something that redirects that to /dev/null... (If anyone does this, please share it with the list! I also hate the plague of plugins that have corrupted the Web...) Take care, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ZonkerBooks.net/ -=- ICQ: 43599611 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." -- Douglas Adams
