Firefox (I'm running FF 21.0) seems to give you two options for dealing with plugins: 1.) allow all plugins to be loaded without question or 2.) allow them to load after you approve each request.

Is there a way to disable plugin loading altogether and avoid even being asked whether plugins should be loaded? If you visit a site with multiple videos you seem to get prompted to approve loading a plugin for each and every video that the web page wants to display. If I really have to go through an approval, it'd be nice to only have to click once instead needing to respond to N dialog pop-ups.

Why disable plugins you ask? Our internet connection is rather slow and searching for plugins when visiting web pages is a PITB. If FF is even able to locate a suitable plugin -- it nevers seems to be able to find one when I allow it to -- it nearly always requires bouncing FF. The subsequent reloading of all the tabs you had open takes forever.

Is what I'm trying to do even possible with Firefox?

TIA...


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Rick

Type "about:config" in the URL bar then search "plugin".

My guess (only a guess) would be to make "true" instead of "false" (the default) following setting:
plugins_hide_infobar_for_missing_plugin

For that just double-click above that line.

Or right-click and select "Toggle".

Either way,... it seems to have done the trick. At least I haven't noticed the "plugin approval infobar" appear for a while. And no need to bounce the browser to have the change take effect. I'll try hitting a site that I'm pretty sure will thoroughly exercise the plugin checker before I mark this one as "Solved".

Thanks.


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Rick