You can go to Tools then Manage Add-ons in IE8 to verify the current status regardless of what the status bar displays. I don’t believe there’s a setting to change the display of this notification in the status bar.

I should also mention that at this point any further updates to this utility probably won’t be coming any time soon unless Windows 8 requires an update or some other major flaw is found. I won’t be making any updates for XP or even Vista. I quite honestly no longer have the time to do much more than that and as this app is free and I’ve received a total of 2 donations I haven’t found much of a reason to do anything beyond what little work I’ve done thus far.

IE8 on XP SP3 should have no issues with this add-on from the testing I did in a VM it behaved exactly the same. If Flash objects are being disabled properly I wouldn’t worry too much about it.

I forgot where I got FlashBang, but wanted a replacement because there is no indication of whether it is on or off (FlashBlock for Forefox changes the appearance of the toolbar button), then found your site again. “Add-on disabled”? I _never_ noticed this before. I can uninstall the FlashBang add-on (unlike so many others)? Cool.

Uninstalled it. Downloaded another copy from you, just in case it is a later version, exited IE, and installed it.

It _does_ seem to work, but still no ‘disabled’ indication (for me).

The front page of Zillow.com has a flash object on it — enabled = animation, disabled = a single ‘screen’ that does not change (it is the last screen of the animation). Same on other pages containing flash objects — the “placeholder” is a single ‘screen’ of image data.

Is there an IE setting that stops the display of the “add-on disabled” message? I don’t see one in Tools>Options>[everything in there].

Ok… i run regedit and checked "in realtime" – your app does delete this key when i click the flashbang button BUT flash is still running after refreshing the page

So… i think you need to find perhaps another reg key to enable/disable flash unique to IE8 as well.

I spend some time to search the keys on the 2nd link you provided and saved/delete/checked if flash still running/resored keys – unfortunatly all keys were useles in disabling flash.

As if IE8 retain all objects info onload and doesnt check with the resgistry file for every html page run.

Perhaps the brains in microsofts R&D thought every milii-second counts for competeing with the other browsers

Hope you can come up with a solution, perhaps a regkey i couldnd find my self.

Thanks,

Asher

You can check the following registry key: HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExtSettings{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000}

If the key doesn't exist and Flash is ENABLED. The app simply does the check and either deletes or creates the key.

See more from Adobe here: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/145/tn_14526.html AND http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/191/tn_19148.html

Could it be IE8 migrated the REG keys of flash else where then your settings?
Or perhaps your settings work with flash version before 10, which is the flash version i have on IE8.

Thanks

I'm using windows XP SP3, i did uninsatll and reinstall several times just to make sure.

I do see the button on IE8 but it doesnt disable the flash (i do refresh to the page to check if flash is disabled but its still runing)

Any help is much apreciated

Thanks

Asher

I just upgraded to IE 8 and it seems it doesnt affect flash anymore.

Could you look into it and perhaps issue a new version?

Thanks again!

Thank you so much for this great app! Flash video ads on web pages were driving me crazy and your app has solved the problem for me!

I have just one request for you to consider in any future versions: could you please add a "safe" list feature so that I can mark certain domains or websites as "ok" to run flash on and just auto-disable flash on all the others? That would be amazing

Many thanks,
Adam

Petty requests. This app is exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks!