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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.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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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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