Flashblock blocking non-flash content

Hi,

First of all, thank you for this great plugin!  However,
using firefox3 beta5 + flashblock 1.5.5, it seems to block
non-flash (and non-silverlight) content. We (LogMeIn, inc)
are developing a remote control solution between computers,
and our client runs as a browser plugin. Unfortunately,
flashblock blocks us. We're embedding our plugin into the
website as follows:

<object
type="application/x-3amlabs-raremotecontrol"
width="320"
height="200"></object>

See, there is nothing flashy here, but the content is
blocked anyway. Sadly, this is a big problem for us, because
we're checking if the plugin is loaded correctly, and if it
isn't, we're falling back to a non-native remote control
mechanism (java, and then static html). So our users do not
really have the chance to manually activate the plugin, by
clicking on the 'f' placeholder button. I suppose this could
be a bug in flashblock itself, because your intention is not
to block every plugin object on the earth  Could you
please have a look at it?

Our (free as beer) plugin can be downloaded from here (if
you would like to test this behavior yourselves) : http
s://www.logmein.com/activex/npRACtrl_ff3.xpi

Thank you for your help,

--
Akos Putz
www.logmein.com


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On 06/05/2008, Akos Putz <Akos.Putzlogmein.com> wrote:

>  First of all, thank you for this great plugin!  However,
using firefox3 beta5 + flashblock 1.5.5, it seems to block
non-flash (and non-silverlight) content. We (LogMeIn, inc)
are developing a remote control solution between computers,
and our client runs as a browser plugin. Unfortunately,
flashblock blocks us. We're embedding our plugin into the
website as follows:

>  <object
type="application/x-3amlabs-raremotecontrol"
width="320"
height="200"></object>

Hi,

Yes I'm aware that in certain cases silverlight and java
and
other non-flash objects are inadvertently blocked. I'm not
sure why but I'll check on it. Do you have an example
webpage
with your embedded object?

In the meantime try putting the website with your object
into
the Flashblock whitelist (right click on the FB
placeholder,
and select "allow flash from this site").

Phil
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Hi,

> Yes I'm aware that in certain cases silverlight and
java and 
> other non-flash objects are inadvertently blocked. I'm
not 
> sure why but I'll check on it. 

Thanks a lot!

> Do you have an example webpage with your embedded
object?

I've attached a very simple testpage. (Note: our plugin
won't do anything interesting here, because of the missing
parameterlist). If you'd like to, I'll try to put this
somewhere online as well (flashblock does not block local
file:// URIs, am I right?)

> In the meantime try putting the website with your
object into 
> the Flashblock whitelist (right click on the FB
placeholder, 
> and select "allow flash from this site").

Whitelisting logmein.com really helps (thanks for the
hint!), but telling this to every single logmein user is not
the best solution 

One more thing: this problem only occurs with firefox3. FF2
+ FB works just great.

Akos
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