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I uninstalled Flash on my Mac about a week ago. Wanted to see if I could reduce the fan noise and heat. The one thing that might make me reinstall is that YouTube only supports 1 in 10 videos in html5, if that.

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Try this if you use Safari

http://www.verticalforest.com/2010/06/09/youtube5-html5-conv...

I've had the system Flash uninstalled on my MacBook Pro for a couple of weeks now. In cases where I really do need Flash, I open the page in Chrome.

Chrome keeps its own version of Flash, and if you quit the browser once you're done with the Flash page the Flash processes won't hang around beating up your computer.

I too was getting tired of the fan noise, heat, and extreme CPU usage caused by Flash. While I was tempted to uninstall Flash, I thought I'd try Click to Flash (http://clicktoflash.com/) first.

I've been happy with Click to Flash and appreciate having the ability to turn it on when I have to have Flash (Google Analytics, Pingdom, YouTube, Slideshare.net, Vimeo, Pandora, etc). Unfortunately, I just don't think it's possible to run without Flash and still be able to achieve the productivity some of the prior mentioned Flash-enabled websites give me.

Did the same thing. There are extensions out there that convert from flash even if youtube doesn't offer the html5 version.

Chrome now has built in support for plugins block. If you're a chrome user, you should try it.

I use the youtube-dl python script for that; I love not having flash installed.

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