Comments on: Flashblock help

Question: Flashblock help

interrobang — Tue, 03 May 2005 17:29:07 -0800

I downloaded the Flashblock extention for Firefox a couple of months ago, and now I seem not to have even the option to look at flash sites.

When I first downloaded Flashblock, any Flash on any website was replaced with a little "F", and if I clicked on the "F", it would come alive. Now, when I go to Flash sites, nothing happens. Just a blank page with a "Done" in the lower left-hand corner of my browser.

I tried searching the computer (iMac G5) for this, but I can't find it to delete it. I've also tried looking in the Firefox extensions, under "Tools", but Flashblock is not there. How can I get rid of it? Alternately, how can I make it work again like it's supposed to?

By: interrobang

interrobang — Tue, 03 May 2005 17:30:38 -0800

...sorry, that should read "extension".

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Tue, 03 May 2005 17:51:50 -0800

Flashblock adds a line or two to your userContent.css file, which is located in the 'chrome' subdirectory of your user profile directory. If flashblock has been removed or somehow disabled, you should check that the appropriate userContent.css lines also got removed.

By: interrobang

interrobang — Tue, 03 May 2005 17:55:32 -0800

How can I do that? I'm not really very computer literate. Thank you for your patience.

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Tue, 03 May 2005 18:02:02 -0800

Follow these instructions to remove flashblock.

By: interrobang

interrobang — Tue, 03 May 2005 18:07:06 -0800

See, but flashblock is just *not there* in the extensions window that comes up when I go to it. Bugmenot is there. Chatzilla is there.

Am I missing something? I'm using Firefox 1.0.2.

By: interrobang

interrobang — Tue, 03 May 2005 18:08:27 -0800

# Disable Flashblock using the Options in the Extensions window.
Tools->Extensions->Flashblock->Options

# Uninstall Flashblock from the Extensions window.
Tools->Extensions->Flashblock->Unistall

These are the instructions on the site linked by monju. I don't think I can do this without Flashblock being there in the first place.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Tue, 03 May 2005 18:15:04 -0800

Assume the first two steps have been done, and go on to step three, "Shutdown Firefox, then delete or rename the userContent.css file in your profile/chrome folder." In OS X, your profile folder is usually located in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default/ , where the x's are a bunch of random characters.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Tue, 03 May 2005 21:52:30 -0800

Not helpful, but maybe it will make you feel better: I have managed to complete bollix up my flashblock and adblock too. I tried to uninstall them and now they a/don't work and b/tell me they will be uninstalled the next time I restart but nothing ever changes. I deleted the usercontent.css file and nothing happened....

By: interrobang

interrobang — Thu, 12 May 2005 16:31:20 -0800

If anyone's still curious about this, I just trashed Firefox and re-loaded it. This time, I chose not to import anything at all, and it's done the trick. Don't have bugmenot anymore, and have to redo all my bookmarks, but I've gotten rid (I guess) of Flashblock.