If so, then you simply remember to have the filter off when you use that web site. If the indicator is visible then you can try turning ActiveX Filtering off to see if an ActiveX control call is needed for the web page. So, if something in the web page isn't working that you actually care about, then look for the ActiveX indicator. You will see an icon indicator come on in the browser if the web page has ActiveX calling code. I rarely run into any web pages where anything that needs ActiveX is of any importance so having ActiveX blocked is just fine.

I'm assuming that’s what it does and why it stops the annoying popup.įor any web page that you want an ActiveX control to be available, turn the 'ActiveX Filtering' off. When Active X Filtering is on it seems that IE is literally stripping out any ActiveX calls from the web page. I'm not sure which version of Internet Explorer introduced 'ActiveX Filtering'. This website wants to install the following add-on 'Adobe Flashruntime' from 'Adobe Systems Incorporated'. When it's on, you won't get the following popup: How to stop the install Adobe Flash popup without having to install the plugin in IE it can be done by turning the 'ActiveX Filtering' on. What I am not too happy with here is, you probably end up installing flash and then blocking it. I think with some more tricks, this can be stopped too. That is different from your install adobe problem. The approved sites will go to the approved list of sites which is nothing but a whitelist of sites. Now whenever you visit a site which flash on the page, you will see a message on top of the browser asking your approval to run the flash plugin.

Click on “Remove All Sites” button to remove * sign from the approved list of sites.

Click on “Shockwave Flash Object” and then click on “More Information”.

Click on the dropdown under show and select “All Add-ons”.

Internet Explorer 8: IE has the Flash block functionality built-in so you don’t need to install any additional plugins to be able to block flash on IE 8.Īlso remember, Flash does not pay on 64-bit IE 8 so you won’t be able to perform the following steps on a 64-bit IE 8, they work well on 32-bit IE 8. I don't use IE8, but according to this site,

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