On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 15:25 -0700, nate wrote:
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I don't use CentOS as a desktop but this still may be of use...
On both my win32 and my debian systems that use firefox I use the prefbar extension which has an option to enable/disable flash, I usually keep it off unless I need it but it seems to unload the module on the fly(doesn't show up in about:plugins), and from what I can see it renames the file. I don't know if renaming the file is enough, but you may be able to restart the flash plugin dynamically without restarting the browser with this(or perhaps another) extension.
I just have it disabled normally click Tools->Add-ons at the start of the day. If I'm going to paly something I <Alt>-<Tab> and either <Enter> (I'm already positioned ther) or <ALT>-<E>.
Disable is the same, but <alt>-<D> or <Enter> to disable.
It's nice because if you forget to do beorehand, just refresh the screen after and it acts like you didn't forget.
I like this because it's one less thing from the outside world I have to keep track of or update, etc.
Real handy for when flash holds onto my audio card preventing other apps from using it, hit the checkbox and it kills flash without causing instability in the browser.
nate
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