Authors CurseForge

is ther another way of dealing with Wowmatrix?At least some way that you can add all of updated addons to some sort of list and use captcha only once and not with every single one update addon?

Wait, this is supposed to be good? Flash is incredibly laggy on firefox w/ noscript, and i'm going to have to block wowace.com javascript. I'd rather have a captcha then flash. *sigh*

How can flash be "laggy" displaying a Button when you are running anything more powerful than a Calculator to browse Curse?
(Even on a Netbook its totally fine with FF and NoScript)

I frankly never have had any issues with Flash and Firefox (and I have NoScript installed). However some people have this "Flash= Bad" attitude likely stemming from sites that use Flash way too much or poorly coded Flash apps.

Thanks for the flashblock idea, I hadn't any idea that it existed. Was happy to get rid of noscript this morning.

I did some testing with the Flash link. No lag, just the usual wait time while my request was sent up the line. The time was no different than when it was a plain HTML link.

Ok, this sounds as if there might be a solution to my problem. Please help me out, I can't live without my addons ;-)

1. I understand your issue with WoWMatrix.

2. I don't install download clients of whatever kind - never did never will.

3. Whenever I try to download an addon manually on WOWI everything works like it always did. 1-click-download, I always preferred WoWI for it!

4. Now curse has always been 2-click-download :-( but today nothing happens anymore. I get a message saying: "You are seeing this captcha because you have flash disabled or not installed. Please fill out the captcha to continue with your download. Sorry for the inconvenience." - But there is no captcha at all. (Firefox with NoScript, JS enabled for curse.com)

5. I tried on another comp (Firefox with NoScript, JS enabled for curse.com, with or without flash I dont know) and got 2 captchas - 1 captcha is already beyond annoying but 2 is a no-go. Think about manually updating 50+ addons with 2 captchas ... I second the TE, captchas while logging in would be ok, but not this.

6. Did I understand you right, that, if I installed Flash, there would be no captchas at all and the download would work like before?

7. Did I understand you right, that, if I installed Flashblocker, I could restrict Flash to curse.com and nothing else?

I really think, an addon download requiring flash, which is completely unnessesary for everything else I do, is a bit much. I don't like to open my computer to that kind of risk. I would consider to bite into that foul apple if there is a way to restrict flash to only curse.com and to be shure that nothing else is able to use that dangerous (and annyoing and generally superfluus) peace of software.

At the same time I am wondering how WoWI managed to protect their downloads without this annoyances. I hope every author will be so kind to make their addons available through WoWI so that I could get rid of curse's "curse" ... I will ask them all with a pretty pretty please.

Alternatively: pretty pretty please, Curse, get a 1-click-manual-download-feature for registered users.

Quote from kaimon

6. Did I understand you right, that, if I installed Flash, there would be no captchas at all and the download would work like before?

Yes that is correct. Tested this myself

7. Did I understand you right, that, if I installed Flashblocker, I could restrict Flash to curse.com and nothing else?

I think Flashblocker does work by domain. I don't use Flashblocker myself, I use NoScript which also handles Flash. If NoScript is not enabled for a site, then no Flash.

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Its not laggy at all for me, using Flashblocker instead of noscript. But whatever suits you. We offer a choice for people that don't want flash.

Flash has had performance issues for a long time. Issues Adobe has admitted they are aware of and have never fixed. I don't even let Flash load (not FlashBlock, literally disabled) unless I close my browser completely and re-launch using a different shortcut. It's amazing (and sad) the performance increase you gain from this, no matter what your hardware is. Flash is shit, plain and simple. I'd much rather talk to a captcha than load flash.

May I ask how you manage to start your browser with flash disabled? I would like to do that too. (using FF 3.08)

I have not heard about Noscript causing decreased flash performance but I do know that using Adblock Plus with the option enabled to add the little "block" tabs to flash objects can cause performance decreases.

I use Firefox with both Noscript and Adblock Plus (but with the option to add the "block" tabs disabled).

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May I ask how you manage to start your browser with flash disabled? I would like to do that too. (using FF 3.08)

"%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" -disable-plugins --enable-user-scripts

On FF I used FlashBlock, but I've been much happier with it completely gone in Chrome.

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At the same time I am wondering how WoWI managed to protect their downloads without this annoyances. I hope every author will be so kind to make their addons available through WoWI so that I could get rid of curse's "curse" ... I will ask them all with a pretty pretty please.

WoWInterface uses Java (not JavaScript) according to the text on their CAPTCHA page (which you're directed to if Java isn't enabled)... though the button was still a normal HTML image link, so I'm not sure where the Java comes in. I didn't look at the HTML source.

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You can disable addons in your addon menu in Fx

"Shockwave" lawl. I thought that name had long been absorbed into Adobe.

Too many sites/ads abuse Flash/Java, so they are disabled globally and only enabled for individual sites that need them for something I want to see/use. Non-Flash ads are free to load, but I do individually block ones that play sounds, jump all over the page, or have too much flashing/shaking/other motion to be easily ignored. The ads for the 3-D monitors on WoWI are very close to getting the ban stick, but otherwise I haven't had any issues with their ads.