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WebKit plug-in to prevent automatic loading of Adobe Flash content

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37 pointsJakob15 comments

This was possible using SafariStand for a long time already. This is now a plugin and not an InputManager (which is layed on unstable ground (as Apple wants to disable them in the next OS X version)).

The killer feature (and what sets it apart from SafariStand) actually is the whitelist. Option-click a Flash object and you can tell it to always load all flash on the current domain. Sweet!

Essential tool. If you use Firefox and want something like this, http://flashblock.mozdev.org

And for opera: http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/flashblock-for-opera-9

Wolf's awesome. Have his blog in my RSS feed and he always delivers quality info: http://rentzsch.com/

I have a love/hate relationship with Flash. On one end, it's awesome for audio & video and on the other hand, it has such a shitty implementation on a Mac. It takes 40% of CPU just to decode a video stream which installed video clients can do in less than 10%. (Incidentally, ever since Adobe purchased Macromedia, quality of Adobe's stuff has been going down.)

Flash also uses the old Netscape plugin architecture which has a horribly inefficient input & rendering loop that causes even background tabs to use a lot of CPU.

Yes he is.

Even worse, flash ignores its z-order on my box (firefox/solaris x86). Turns out lots of sites have flash on the front page, with dropdown menus above it.... ugh.

That's actually the fault of the developer for choosing a wmode which doesn't support z-sorting. Flash has no problem hiding behind HTML content.

Setting wmode to transparent/opaque exposes some Flash Player bugs tho (non-US keyboards print only US characters).

can't upvote this enough.

Yep, I’m happy I found it, too. You want to look after your "shameless plug" on http://www.broadersheet.com/yc.friends/. The link goes to broadersheet.com (w/o "www") which fails.

thats weird. If you go to http://broadersheet.com/ it works for me?

Nope, not even a ping here. I’m using OpenDNS, seems like an issue on their side.

strange. I'll have to ensure my DNS is setup. Lots of my users will probably use OpenDNS - will do some reading! :)

While OpenDNS is neither Open nor DNS (by default), they aren't fucking anything up in this instance.

It displays a grey box. Flash content is loaded on click. (works only with webkit browsers)

It works! CPU load is way lower.

I always loved Flashblock for Firefox not so much to save bandwidth/CPU, but to make sure that wherever I go, jackasses can't spam me with retarded videos and annoying background music.

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