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To get the best of both worlds (in Firefox, but I know Chrome has something similar):

* Go to: about:config

* Search "plugins.click_to_play"

* Enable.

You'll also have to go to the Add-ons page, the Plugin tab and then select which plugins you want to be click to play

Ah, very true. Why they make it harder than necessary, I don't know.