{"id":1031,"date":"2009-05-12T15:20:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T20:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:41:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:41:31","slug":"stop-the-flash-before-it-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/1031-stop-the-flash-before-it-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop the Flash before it starts!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Don\u2019t tell some of the designers around here, but I really<\/em> hate Flash content<\/a> embedded into Web pages.\u00a0 Sure, its great when you\u2019re watching YouTube videos<\/a> or listening to streaming music on sites like Pandora<\/a> Radio. When you get to things like animated images or (worse yet) banner ads, however, its \u201cNo Thanks\u201d for me. Don\u2019t even get me started on those evil, evil designers who do their whole sites in Flash – there should be mandatory prison sentences for that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

As one who\u2019s still using G4 Macs, Flash\u2019s drain on my system resources is quite a pain. It also eats up bandwidth. This may be fine if you have a fast connection, but it slows things down tremendously for those of us with slower connections.<\/p>\n

Is there a point to this short little rant on Flash? Of course there is!<\/p>\n

I recently came across ClickToFlash<\/strong>, a plug-in for Safari<\/a> (or any Webkit-based browser, such as Opera) that simply and cleanly blocks Flash content from automatically loading.\u00a0When the plug-in is installed, wherever Flash content is located on a Web page, a simple translucent gray box appears instead. If you want to see the Flash content, all you need to do is click the gray box and the content loads. You can even set up a whitelist so that content you do want (such as the aforementioned YouTube or Pandora) is automatically let through.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, there\u2019s the matter of price… How does \u201cfree\u201d sound? All it costs you to get is the time it takes to download it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Firefox<\/a> users, you\u2019re not left out in the cold, either. Flashblock<\/strong> is a free plug-in that offers similar functionality for many Mozilla-based browsers. You can find it in the Firefox add-on section<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Take back control of your browser and bandwidth, and install the plug-in for your favorite browser.<\/p>\n

\n

OWC has no affiliation with this software and receives no benefit related to this support (other than a benefit we all share in the continued support of these applications). If you appreciate the function or functionality this software offers, we encourage you to support the authors.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t tell some of the designers around here, but I really hate Flash content embedded into Web pages.\u00a0 Sure, its great when you\u2019re watching YouTube videos or listening to streaming music on sites like Pandora Radio. When you get to things like animated images or (worse yet) banner ads, however, its \u201cNo Thanks\u201d for me. 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