How to stop sound on webpages?

Factual Questions
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So I’m visiting a website. And suddenly music/voices/s-fx are blaring out the speakers. WTF? Oh. a stupid ad. Prolly a flash thing too. It’s superimposed over the webpage - and typically the text I was gonna read.
Tool\settings\advanced un-check “play sounds on webpages”.
But I still get this blaring from websites every so often. Using IE6. Don’t want to change browser.

Have tried to find the settings for Flash, if it is Flash, that’s causing this. No luck so far.

So what to do?

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Easiest way, if you don’t mind setting up a proxy, is to get the Proxomitron. It’ll kill just about anything you tell it to. Unfortunately, there’s no good native way to kill Flash that I know of.

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I believe flash is an activeX and you can disable or get a prompt at IE Tools, security. I get a prompt but yoiu may get tired of getting prompts all the time

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What asterion said. Proxomitron is the best damned program for enhancing my web-browsing pleasure (by killing pop-ups, java crap, flash, music…all that extraneous crap that’s apparently there to annoy people). It’ll cure what ails ye. :smiley:

Fenris

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Of course, now that I think about it, I think Flash is plug-in based (at least it used to be.) Delete the plug-in and that should kill all Flash. Of course, you then can’t use it when you want it.

A word of warning on the Proxomitron. It rewrites web-pages on the fly, and you have to be careful what you select. The only way I can get any flash-based websites to work (death to all who write those!) is to disable it temporarily. Similarly, I’ve had problems with the websites for the Washington Post and the LA Times using this thing, but it could just be I have it configured differently here at home than I do at school, where I don’t have any problems with those websites.

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I’m not sure this will get rid of sounds in Flash presentations, but have you tried Tools, Internet Options, the Advanced tab, scroll down to the Multimedia section, and uncheck Play sounds in web pages?

7

D’oh, reading comprehension fails again. :smack:

Yes, you have tried the obvious. Sorry. Carry on.

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Actually, the obvious would be to turn the volume down. (-:

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  1. Begin using full sentences.
  2. Turn speaker to “off” position.

~Ferry

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  1. Will not begin using full sentences. :evil grin:
  2. Will not turn speakers off. Am listening to music from nifty mediaplayer, while browsing.
    I want to keep flash. It’s just that I want controll.

I’ll check into the suggestions. Thanks.

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  1. I am very thankful you took that as a joke.
  2. I am very thankful you did not flame.

~Ferry

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Can you set the Proxomitron to still allow the voice of Leonard Nimoy through when he’s singing an ode to Bilbo Baggins?

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In that case, setting ActiveX to “Prompt” seems like the best thing to do. Evry time you get the choice of whether to let it go or not.