Can you disable flash banner on the top?

[steve_gates]

It seems firefox 3 is having memory leak problems with Flash and I was wondering if there was a way to disable it.

[davidshek]

Yeah I'd love that. That banner, while cool, is a huge drain on system resources.

[steve_gates]

Yeah I'd love that. That banner, while cool, is a huge drain on system resources.

Good to see it wasn't just me.

[seinman]

I use an extension called Flashblock. It blocks ALL flash, unless you click on a flash object to load it, or whitelist a site. I love it.

[davidshek]

I use an extension called Flashblock. It blocks ALL flash, unless you click on a flash object to load it, or whitelist a site. I love it.

Yeah, the only problem with that is that it also blocks embedded Youtube videos :(

[seinman]

Yeah, the only problem with that is that it also blocks embedded Youtube videos :(

That's exactly why I use it, I dislike embedded videos. If I want to watch one, i'll click it to load it.

[davidshek]

That's exactly why I use it, I dislike embedded videos. If I want to watch one, i'll click it to load it.

Yeah ya know, I just realized I could click on individual videos rather than whitelisting the entire RB site. Sweet :)

[Boggled]

Cant you change the settings and colors to one that doens't have that at the top like that IPB blue (classic) I'm not sure if thats it though

[Alitar13]

seinman,

Thanks for the Flashblock req. This thing is great, now FF3 runs like a puma.

[geo2n2]

Ah-ha. I just dscovered it was the flash banner at the top causing my computer to grind to a halt. Seems only to be in Firefox, and most glaring while typing a post. When the animated banner is not visible in the browser window it's fine but as soon as I scroll so that it's in the window with the post entry box, my system usage jumps up to about 90%, and essentially locks up my machine.

Can someone at the site look into this issue please?

[steve_gates]

Yeah I'd love that. That banner, while cool, is a huge drain on system resources.

btw how do you have a signature?

[davidshek]

btw how do you have a signature?

I'm not sure, exactly. It just started showing up today. We were discussing it here:

http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77289

[Lady Siara]

Wow, thanks so much for the flashblock suggestion, works like a charm. :D

[veng]

Glad to hear it worked :)

[Bearclaw]

Yea... a flash banner that takes up 30% of my CPU (brand new PC, mind you) is a bit superfluous. Isn't there a better way to inform people that this is the Rock Band site without killing their computers?

[DethBoxx]

Yeah the flash banner makes my system fan spin up every time...and it is loud! :(

If I come to this site on my iPhone the flash banner is replaced by an image that
looks the same just not animated. Wish I could get that on my computer as well.

I'm not interested in blocking Flash though. Any other ideas?

[jll544]

Install the Greasemonkey plugin, and use a simple script like this:


// ==UserScript==
// @name Rock Band Forum banner disable
// @namespace http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php
// @description Disables the Rock Band forum Flash banner
// @include http://www.rockband.com/forums/*
// ==/UserScript==

(function()
{
var myheader = document.getElementById("flash-header");
myheader.innerHTML = '<img src="/themes/rockband/img/style-2/bigRedBanner.jpg" usemap="#headerMap" />';
})();