Those of you who use Mac OS X... especially on an older Mac like me, know that Flash is anti-mac.

Now that Safari allows extensions, there's a program available that turns any flash content that's available in H.264 into an H.264 player and eliminates the crashing.

It also stops advertisements from loading, which is nice.

The best part is, if you WANT to view flash content, all you have to do is click on it, and it'll load after the page is done loading for you to use.

Check it out:

http://clicktoflash.com/

It's WELL worth it.

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Wheelhouse

I've used Flashblock for Firefox for years, even before I started using Apple products regularly.

Although I use Chrome primarily now, I still use FF and Flashblock on my laptop since Flashblock for Chrome isn't the most stable yet.

They're good extensions no matter what your browser of choice is. That being said, I don't like how these guys are bragging about the H.264 support for YouTube as some awesome feature. Anyone can change their YouTube preferences to turn that on without needing an extension.

I didn't know that about Youtube.

What about embedded youtube videos, though? Because even with embeded videos, I get H.264.

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Wheelhouse

I run flash on my mac just fine. Even if a movie is crushing 2 cores I've got 6 left

It may be an old and closed technology, but the apple / adobe pissing match is blown out of proportion.
It's a potential problem on less power platforms, like a damn phone, but if your computer can't run flash, get a new computer.

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Hold my beer and watch this...

Yeah, I'll just drop 1500 bucks on a new computer. :p

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Wheelhouse

Commodity hardware
Smug Operating system

http://www.osx86project.org/

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Hold my beer and watch this...

The only reason I run it is to block all the dumb as auto-play flash ads. On my laptop, it does provide significant battery improvement. On my iMac, it's not that big a deal. Some flash stuff will spike both cores, but I don't really notice it that much. Sometimes I get logged out of youtube and it chops a bit, but I log back in and get HTML5 again.

I agree with Ed. It's generally overblown.

I've never really had a problem with flash movies...it's poorly coded flash applications that suck monkey turd.
I'm looking at you Zynga

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Hold my beer and watch this...

Considering that they added hardware acceleration in flash 10.1, responsible developers should use that.

Too bad the majority of flash devs appear to be hacks.

Why do you prefer Chrome over Safari?

I've found that Safari is much faster/smoother on the mac than Chrome.

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Wheelhouse

I find the simpler interface appealing. I also have 4 machines I work on regularly (two at home, office, laptop), so the config/settings/extension sync is useful to me as well.

I don't hate Safari, Chrome just fits in better with how I like to work.

Kinda off-topic...but has anyone ever had any issues with Adblock on Firefox? I feel like it makes things really wonky especially when viewing flash things. Sometimes when I hover over a video to want to pause it or something it won't let me click it...

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hockey Night in Buffalo

Nope.

But since my computer is a piece of shit, flash crashes all the time if I try and do two things at the same time with flash.

Well mainly when I play a facebook game is all actually. I need only that window open only or flash will crash and stuff.

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