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ClickToFlash for Safari avoids Flash browser bloat
by Nik Fletcher Sep 14th 2009 at 2:30PM
I don't know about you, but I loathe Flash. Sure it's handy for things like YouTube, but on the Mac it's renowned for consistently hogging vast swathes of memory. The ClickToFlash plugin for Safari however, is here to save the day - blocking Flash areas of a page yet still allowing you to activate Flash on webpages with just a single click.Not content with just preventing Flash from auto-loading, ClickToFlash also substitutes YouTube's Flash videos for their H.264 QuickTime equivalents as you browse the YouTube website, and even allows you to whitelist specific websites to automatically show Flash. The plugin also blocks Flash in any applications that use Safari's WebKit engine - though applications can opt out of this, if they require Flash.
I've been using ClickToFlash since version 1.0, and it's now a vital part of my browser toolkit. If you're on Mac OS X and Safari is your browser of choice, I'd highly recommend it.
The Illusionist's Dream is a simple platformer; you play as a magician who needs to get through each level by transforming into any number of animals that you encounter along the way.
Each animal can do different things; the butterfly can obviously fly, but if it encounters a frog, the frog eats it, and you have to start over again. There's also a fox that runs fast and leaps far, but it eats any rabbits that cross its path. That means that, if you may need to be a rabbit later on, you need to take that into account ...
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Freak Mojo said 3:13PM on 9-14-2009
Anything like this for the iPhone? I'd love to get a workaround for navigating Flash sites and content on my phone.... yeah.. you know what I mean ;)
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Evenio said 8:25PM on 9-14-2009
ClickToFlash doesn't provide alternate means of navigation, it just holds back Flash content until you deliberately activate it. It wouldn't be of much use on a platform like iPhone OS where, due to the lack of any Flash support, there's no content there to block (or unblock). It's up to the website's owner to provide other, standards-based ways to get around.
Brandscill said 3:56AM on 9-15-2009
He was being sarcastic
cmsb55 said 3:29PM on 9-14-2009
Firefox add-on FlashBlock does the same thing in Firefox for those of you using it. I just want something like this for Chrome.
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