[wplug] Telling webservers you don't have flash installed

[john at simplykiwi.com]

Do a google search for "mozilla firebird extensions"

There are quite a few of these programming goodies to enhance your
browsing. One of my favorites is the "Nuke Anything" extension. With it
enabled, you can right-click an object on a website, and remove it from
the layout.

There are other extensions that may be of interest in your specific
situation, like the one that enables an on-screen window to view the
headers your browser is sending. Try out some of them. My favorite is
EditCSS.

> I just downloaded Mozilla Firebird for a spin, and noticed something.
> Sites that usually give my Macromedia Flash ads on their pages, detected
> that I didn't yet have Flash installed in Firebird, and replaced them with
> regular GIF ads.
>
> Once I installed Flash, back came the Flash ads.
>
> I HATE Flash ads on web pages.  Is there some way I can fake it so sites
> can't detect whether I have Flash installed?  How do sites like Yahoo
> figure it out?  What info is the browser sending?
>
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