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Toggle Flash: Add-on to disable Flash in IE 7
Flash, like most things in life, has its good and its bad. The good: it's hard to imagine interactive content on the web without Flash. The bad: it's hard to imagine anything more annoying than poorly designed, seizure-inducing banners and advertisements created with Flash. What we want is choice, isn't it? We want to be able to choose when to allow Flash, and when to keep it at bay.
Luckily there is an Internet Explorer add-on created just for this purpose: Toggle Flash. This simple add-on creates a new toolbar button on your IE window. A single click on the button turns off all subsequent Flash animation; and if you want to re-enable Flash at any time, just click on the button again.
So simple even your kid brother could do it.
For a walkthrough on getting the add-on installed, and for help if the toolbar button doesn't show up immediately, check out the developer's website.
Toggle Flash is a free download, and requires IE 7 and Windows.
[via Lifehacker]
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsdukemangApr 8th 2008 12:47AM
This has got to be one of the greatest add-ons in the history of the internet. Finally I can get rid of those annoying dancing mortgage ads.
ZelidarApr 8th 2008 5:36AM
Since March last year Firefox users are already enjoying a quite efficient Flashblock add-on (now v1.5.5). Thus, for me, the history of the Internet has been strongly impacted about a year ago :-).
Actually, Flashblock kept me away from all the other browsers. Nice knowing that IE7 now share that same essential feature. How about IE8? Isn't it round the corner?
QuikboyApr 8th 2008 1:04AM
Of you could download IE7 Pro. It does this, among many other nifty functions all in one download. It's pretty popular, and has many utilities with it.
http://ie7pro.com/
JamesApr 8th 2008 9:52AM
I find this add-on not nearly as helpful as the FireFox add-on, because the FlashBlock for FF allows you to set individual websites/domains, etc. This article states it's simply and on/off ability. Sigh, a year overdue and it still doesn't work well. Go figure. Why keep praising them?
MikeApr 8th 2008 10:11AM
Wow. I’ve wanted something like this for a while. While not as feature full as FlashBlock for FF, it’s no-frills, simple and does exactly what it says it does. Thanks.