Firefox Extension to remove PIE

those pesky flash "local shared objects"

[tedster]

Well, that was pretty quick! Ten days ago the news broke about using a Flash feature called LSOs (Local Shared Objects) to restore deleted cookies on a users machine.

Today there's news of a FireFox extension for handling the Flash shared objects [yardley.ca] (Windows only) called "objection."

Hat's off to creator Greg Yardley for his quick response time - especially because, as he says "I'm a product manager, not a programmer, and while I think I've got this program right I make no guarantees."

[edited by: tedster at 10:20 am (utc) on April 12, 2005]

[CritterNYC]

Fixed link:
[yardley.ca...]

Personally, I prefer using FlashBlock :-)

[StupidScript]

Does FlashBlock kill/disable/block the shared objects, or just keep the front-end app from showing in the page?

[CritterNYC]

Does FlashBlock kill/disable/block the shared objects, or just keep the front-end app from showing in the page?

From the FlashBlock page:

Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla and Firefox browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves a placeholder on the page that allows you to click to view the Flash content.

It originally didn't block, it just prevented it from being visible if I recall correctly. Now, it apparently blocks it from loading.

[flashblock.mozdev.org...]

Regards,
John

[keyplyr]

Anyone know how to uninstall Objection 0.1?

It didn't install correctly and won't disable. Now I'm forced to use IE.

[StupidScript]

From the FF menubar: Tools=>Extensions

Scroll down to the Objection extension, select it and click "Uninstall". Restart the browser.

And thanks for the explanation, John.

[keyplyr]

From the FF menubar: Tools=>Extensions

Scroll down to the Objection extension, select it and click "Uninstall". Restart the browser.

Thanks, but I was using FF version .8 which didn't give me an 'uninstall' option, hence my post. No doubt this was also the reason for the bad install.

Good news: I was motivated (forced) to upgrade to 1.0.2 and everything is groovy again. I had been reluctant from reading stories here about loosing all the customization and preferences, but it all migrated except a couple extensions which were easy to replace.