Looping banner

[billanben]

OK this is driving me nuts - every time you open a new page you have to newly stop this from newly playing and looping. I don't mind it being there, but I had a Shockwave fatal error when trying to set this to not play tonight. I know I can suppress it using popup software and the like, what I would like is for it NOT to play by default - you can have a button saying "drive me round the twist with something akin to Chinese water torture by pressing this button - only if you have agood psychologist", but please, I beg of you admins, stop the playing and looping.

thanks

[Debaser]

Its possible to stop the loop by right clicking the banner

[emuler]

Use Firefox and get the Flashblock addon. This disables all flash stuff, replacing each item with a 'Play' arrow that you have to click to play the content. Great, especially for low bandwidth guys like me.

While you're at it, get the Adblock addon as well.

[billanben]

EM you have saved my sanity - have the adblock but Flashblock sounds like my boy.

[billanben]

BUT check this out !!

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361921

[billanben]

Grrr - Flashblock doesn't do anything

[billanben]

Oh joy - it requires Javascript to work so that is out of the question. Please stop it playing !!

[emuler]

Try pasting the addy of the flash item in Adblock.

eg. open Adblock preferences, click 'add filter' then paste http://mitglied.lycos.de/shooters/flm/covers.swf in the box and click apply.

[billanben]

Done it EM and my life is quiet again

Used this Greasemonkey extension - the only one I found which does not require JS (and is therefore more secure). Checked code and looks fine to me (there are cookie stealers around right now).

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/888

Thanks for putting me on the right track.