Flash plugin?

[Jeff DeMaagd]

Dialup Jon Norstog wrote:
> During some web searches (PWS500a, RH 7.2, Konqueror) I will sometime be
> inundated with browser windows trying to hook up to the macromedia flash site.
>  I close them, then make a move on the site I'm actually in and get a bunch
> more.  They seem to come 5 at a time.
> 
> macromedia doesn't have a flash plugin for alpha, apparently, 'cause it never
> downloads.
> 
> The question:  is there a flash plugin that works for Alpha?  Or else a way to
> keep websites from redirecting my browser to macromedia flash?

One thing that might help some is an extension called "FlashBlock" for 
Mozilla browsers, or at least it works on Firefox.  It doesn't allow the 
browser to download or start the flash object unless you click.  I think 
it is cross-platform compatible, it is a script, not an arch-specific 
binary.

Jeff