# Is there a way to see the "properties" of a flash image?

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**Created:** [July 1, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-the-properties-of-a-flash-image/501617 "2009-07-01T19:41:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brainiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8797f3/32.png) [@Brainiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-the-properties-of-a-flash-image/501617/1 "2009-07-01T19:41:45Z")

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On a regular image you can right-click to get them but on Flash it just has setting options.  
(I’ve opened the View Source, but don’t know what to look for…)

Mainly, I’d like to know the domain it comes from so I can add it to my Host file block list.

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**Author:** ![LilShieste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@LilShieste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilShieste)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-the-properties-of-a-flash-image/501617/2 "2009-07-01T20:08:45Z")

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Most likely, the HTML element you’ll be looking for (in the source) is \<embed\>. There are other ways for people to insert Flash into their pages, but this is the most likely approach.

Also, you could probably do a search (in the source) for “.swf”, which will basically look for the name of the embedded Flash file.

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**Author:** ![HorseloverFat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8e8cbc/32.png) [@HorseloverFat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HorseloverFat)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-the-properties-of-a-flash-image/501617/3 "2009-07-01T20:30:19Z")

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Its easy in firefox: Tools \> Page Info \> Media

Scroll down to embed.

Or you can view source and look for the embed tag.

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-the-properties-of-a-flash-image/501617/4 "2009-07-01T21:58:11Z")

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Also look for the object tag. Embed was deprecated years ago, although still in use.