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Newer page: version 66 Last edited on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:08:52 am by DanielLawson Revert
Older page: version 64 Last edited on Sunday, June 12, 2005 4:14:33 pm by DanielLawson Revert
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 To use it, save it as <tt>wlug.src</tt> or something like that in [Mozilla]'s <tt>searchplugins/</tt> directory and restart the browser. 
  
 [Mycroft | http://mycroft.mozdev.org/] is a huge repository of search plugins for all manner of sites. 
+  
+!! Flash plugin click-to-load  
+  
+You can enable the flash plugin but not automatically load flash animations by using CSS and XUL.  
+  
+Copy the following into your <tt>userContent.css</tt>"  
+<verbatim>  
+ /* Prevent flash animations from playing until you click on them. */  
+ object[[classid$=":D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"],  
+ object[[codebase*="swflash.cab"],  
+ object[[type="application/x-shockwave-flash"],  
+ embed[[type="application/x-shockwave-flash"],  
+ embed[src$=".swf"]  
+ { -moz-binding: url("http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~jruderma/clickToView.xml#ctv"); }  
+</verbatim>  
+You can copy the clickToView.xml file onto a local webserver as change the url to point to your version, if you don't want to get it from his webserver every time.  
+  
+This also works for some other Gecko-based browsers. Just add the above snippet to the appropriate <tt>userContent.css</tt> for the browser  
  
 !! Java plugin click-to-load 
  
 You can prevent [Java] applets from loading immediately, requiring a click instead, by copying the following into your <tt>userContent.css</tt>: 
@@ -245,9 +263,9 @@
  None, Up, Alt_L|Left 
  None, Down, Alt_L|Right 
 </verbatim> 
  
-Finally, run 'imwheel -b 67' to map buttons 6 and 7 only. See Google or the IMWheel site for more examples. --PradeepSanders  
+Finally, run 'imwheel -b 67' to map buttons 6 and 7 only. See Google or the IMWheel site for more examples. --Pradeep Sanders  
  
 !! Type-ahead Find Problems 
 I was having problems where somehow typeahead find would become enabled whenever I tried to type into the address bar and it was near on impossible to get out of the typeahead find mode. To disable it set 
  accessibility.typeaheadfind 
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 ''This appears to be a bug in Mozilla (or X) - occasionally the focus gets stuck on the wrong object and the main page gets the focus, even if you click on the address bar on in a form field. If you are using tabs, changing to another tab and back clears the problem, but it is still an annoying bug. The point is I don't think it's the typeaheadfind's fault... I haven't seen it in moz 1.4 or later, although I still see at in 1.2.1'' -- JohnMcPherson 
  
 !! Thunderbird hangs while accessing IMAP folders from Courier-IMAP server 
-I had to set MAXPERIP=5 in /etc/courier/imapd (on a Debian 3.0 server). Otherwise Courier-IMAP defaults to allow only 4 connections per IMAP client and that causes Thunderbird (and Netscape Messenger, IIRC) to stop responding. -- FrEd 
+I had to set MAXPERIP=5 in /etc/courier/imapd (on a Debian 3.0 server). Otherwise Courier-IMAP defaults to allow only 4 connections per IMAP client and that causes Thunderbird (and Netscape Messenger, IIRC) to stop responding. -- ~ FrEd 
 -- This is actually configured within the mail client (Thunderbird, Netscape Messenger, Mozilla Mail, etc). Go to the Account Settings, then Server Settings, press the 'Advanced' button, and there is field for 'Maximum number of server connections to cache', which is set to 5 by default. -- DanielLawson 
  
  
 !!! See also