# Block the Flash plugin popup?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/block-the-flash-plugin-popup/708687
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 1, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/block-the-flash-plugin-popup/708687 "2015-01-01T17:16:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/block-the-flash-plugin-popup/708687/1 "2015-01-01T17:16:28Z")
Whenever I sign onto STD, or even change forums (and randomly at other times) I get a popup that says something like “you need a plugin to properly display this page”, then a box “Install Flash?” I did it once. The main result was that at random times STD would stall and a box would open that said that Flash was frozen, should it be ignored? I always chose ignore and then things were fine. Finally I uninstalled Flash and STD works fine, except that now I get this popup all the time. Is there any way to disable it? STD is not a graphic-heavy site at all.
This is Win 7 with the Mozilla browser, whatever the latest version is (34.0) and I have chosen to block popups.
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### Author:  [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/block-the-flash-plugin-popup/708687/2 "2015-01-03T17:21:38Z")
What is the STD site?
You can get Flashblock for Firefox:
[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/)
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### Author:  [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/block-the-flash-plugin-popup/708687/3 "2015-01-04T01:14:55Z")
> [@Reply](#):
>
> What is the STD site?
>
> You can get Flashblock for Firefox:
> [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/)
Sorry, I meant TSD (this site, to be exact); in fact I just had to close that popup again. In the meantimes, I have deleted all Adobe programs from my computer. I use a different pdf reader and the other was something call Adobe Air, which seems to be for programmers. Adobe is evil. I cannot block this popup, which bugs me several times a day.
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### Author:  [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2015, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/block-the-flash-plugin-popup/708687/4 "2015-01-04T02:34:35Z")
Get Adblock AND Flashblock, or just subscribe to remove ads ($10/year).
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2015, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/block-the-flash-plugin-popup/708687/5 "2015-01-04T05:15:15Z")
> [@Reply](#):
>
> Get Adblock AND Flashblock, or just subscribe to remove ads ($10/year).
It’s how you protect your computer from catching STD’s.