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I am finding flash movies blocked with no placeholder. I can access the movie by allowing the entire site, but I would rather just enable the flash movie. This previously did not work this way. There used to be a placeholder which I could click on to access the movie. Now, there is no placeholder.

How do I get the placeholder to appear as it once did for blocked flash movies?

Thanks.

I Too am finding that flash is blocked. Went so far as to create a new profile, added in my add-ons including NoScript and no flash. Uninstalled NoScript and the flash is working. ???

If the player is created by Javascript code, the placeholder can't be shown unless you allow Javascript because otherwise there's no plugin content to be replaced...

What is the minimal steps I should take to access the video with the least amount of risk? Is there one or more steps I can take short of allowing the entire site? I'm not sure how to allow Javascript by itself. If I could, what risk would that expose?

cthorne wrote:What is the minimal steps I should take to access the video with the least amount of risk? Is there one or more steps I can take short of allowing the entire site? I'm not sure how to allow Javascript by itself. If I could, what risk would that expose?

You can use NoScript Options|Embedded|Apply these restrictions to whitelisted sites too: this way, even if you use "Allow somesite.com" to whitelist a site for Javascript execution, plugin content will still be blocked (reducing the attack surface) and you'll get your placeholders to activate selectively.

Sorry, I'm not sure how to do that. Could you provide more detail on how to do that? Sorry, to ask... I have quite a bit of computer savvy, but I don't really understand your advice. Maybe you could give me the NoScript for Dummies version...

I found the option you referenced. I'll see if that helps. Still not really sure what I'm doing...