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ClickToFlash for Safari avoids Flash browser bloat
I don't know about you, but I loathe Flash. Sure it's handy for things like YouTube, but on the Mac it's renowned for consistently hogging vast swathes of memory. The ClickToFlash plugin for Safari however, is here to save the day - blocking Flash areas of a page yet still allowing you to activate Flash on webpages with just a single click.Not content with just preventing Flash from auto-loading, ClickToFlash also substitutes YouTube's Flash videos for their H.264 QuickTime equivalents as you browse the YouTube website, and even allows you to whitelist specific websites to automatically show Flash. The plugin also blocks Flash in any applications that use Safari's WebKit engine - though applications can opt out of this, if they require Flash.
I've been using ClickToFlash since version 1.0, and it's now a vital part of my browser toolkit. If you're on Mac OS X and Safari is your browser of choice, I'd highly recommend it.
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Subscribe to commentsFreak MojoSep 14th 2009 3:13PM
Anything like this for the iPhone? I'd love to get a workaround for navigating Flash sites and content on my phone.... yeah.. you know what I mean ;)
EvenioSep 14th 2009 8:25PM
ClickToFlash doesn't provide alternate means of navigation, it just holds back Flash content until you deliberately activate it. It wouldn't be of much use on a platform like iPhone OS where, due to the lack of any Flash support, there's no content there to block (or unblock). It's up to the website's owner to provide other, standards-based ways to get around.
BrandscillSep 15th 2009 3:56AM
He was being sarcastic
cmsb55Sep 14th 2009 3:29PM
Firefox add-on FlashBlock does the same thing in Firefox for those of you using it. I just want something like this for Chrome.