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I actually had the reverse chronology. I discovered how using ClickToFlash gave me significantly better battery life on my MBP, along with faster page loads and zero mysterious pinwheels. ClickToFlash has a better price-performance ratio than upgrading to an SSD – and I love my SSD.

So when I got an iPad, I was especially mystified at why anyone should complain about this garbage being missing.

edit: Useful links.

Go grab ClickToFlash (Safari, OS X):

http://clicktoflash.com/

Or the Safari extension for Mac or Windows:

http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/clicktoflash/

Or the Firefox equivalent:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/

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rentzsch's clicktoflash is actually considerably out of date at this point.

The new, Safari-extensionized version that is mentioned second is much better and updated frequently. (this link: http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/clicktoflash/)

(mathematical stickler: seeing as ClickToFlash is free, it's price/performance ratio is always zero)

Haw, quite so. Still, even if the SSD were given to you for free, and we measured cost in installation time, the cost in time to install each one versus the resulting gains would be tremendously in favor of ClickToFlash, so awful is Flash.

Don't forget FlashControl for Chrome:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mfidmkgnfgnkihnj...

I prefer enabling Click-to-play in about:flags.

Click-to-play doesn't let you disable it temporarily, which is a problem for some sites that rely on background Flash files. On Chrome, I prefer https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gofhjkjmkpinhpoi...

I'm not sure I understand your meaning. Using just click to play in about:flags, on a page with blocked plugins you can click the icon which appears next to the bookmark star and select "Run all plug-ins this time". Is that not sufficient?

Ugh, I honestly hadn't noticed that. Maybe it wasn't enabled yet on the dev build or something.

Still, per-site whitelisting is nice.

For per-site whitelisting, you can click on that icon and check "always allow plugin on ..." or go to "settings > under the hood > content > plugins > manage exception."

It isn't the easiest or most intuitive way, but so far worked well enough to me.

I am not 100% sure if that extension is totally blocking the Flash files. Last time I checked it, it was only applying a "display: none" with CSS, and some files slipped past it, making it ineffective against 0-day exploits.

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