No Flash Browser Needed

Can anyone suggest a no Flash Browser for Windows?

[hthrdwn]

I have a site that used to have a flash sniffer index page that would either direct visitors to a flash navigation page or to a html navigation page.

In order to help with SEO, I have removed the sniffer page and replaced it with a page that has html navigation and an internal sniffer, showing either a Flash image or a still image.

Everything is working well from my limited point of view - but every bowser I have either views the Flash image, or blocks it, leaving a blank space.

Can anyone suggest a browser I can use on my Windows system to view the "no Flash" alternative? I've tried FireFox, IE 4.X, Avant, Opera (text browser) - nothing seams to be of help.

Thanks!
Heatherdawn

[j4mes]

Try K-Meleon, and when it installs don't allow it to add the flash plugin (which it pulls from Netscape).

And welcome to WebmasterWorld! :)

[hthrdwn]

Thanks so much for your pointer.

I installed bare bones K-Meleon and visited the site in question where I saw . . . the Flash image. So after a quick search of the K-Meleon help files, I found out that you can view the plug-ins being used by K-Meleon by typing 'about:plugins' into the address bar. The list gives the name of the dll file used for Flash, NPSWF32.dll.

I did a system-wide search for NPSWF32.dll and found several - one in the Opera folder, which I deleated.

So now I have what I wanted in both K-Meleon and Opera. Turns out there's an easier way (isn't there always). Opera allows it's users to easily disable plugins by pressing the F12 key and unchecking the box next to 'Enable plug-ins.'

[j4mes]

Cool.

You can also disable/enable individual plugins in K-Meleon by going through edit > preferences > plugins and ticking the ones you want :)

J.

[hthrdwn]

Yah, but I didn't see Flash in the list - K-M is using Opera's dll file - maybe that's why.

Turns out the "quick fix" in Opera blocks rather than disables Flash anyway. So that doesn't really work for me anyway.

[R1chard]

You could try downloading Ariadna or OffByOne...