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| Author: | PuckSniperPensel [ Tue Dec 07, 2010 2:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Mac OS X Users; Rid yourselves of Flash! |
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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| Author: | Squanto [ Tue Dec 07, 2010 2:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Mac OS X Users; Rid yourselves of Flash! |
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. |
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| Author: | PuckSniperPensel [ Tue Dec 07, 2010 2:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Mac OS X Users; Rid yourselves of Flash! |
Squanto wrote: 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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| Author: | Crosscheck [ Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Mac OS X Users; Rid yourselves of Flash! |
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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| Author: | PuckSniperPensel [ Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Mac OS X Users; Rid yourselves of Flash! |
Crosscheck wrote: 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. Yeah, I'll just drop 1500 bucks on a new computer. :p |
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| Author: | Crosscheck [ Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Mac OS X Users; Rid yourselves of Flash! |
PuckSniperPensel wrote: Yeah, I'll just drop 1500 bucks on a new computer. :p Commodity hardware Smug Operating system http://www.osx86project.org/ |
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| Author: | Squanto [ Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Mac OS X Users; Rid yourselves of Flash! |
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. |
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| Author: | Crosscheck [ Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Mac OS X Users; Rid yourselves of Flash! |
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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| Author: | Squanto [ Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Mac OS X Users; Rid yourselves of Flash! |
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. |
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| Author: | PuckSniperPensel [ Tue Dec 07, 2010 4:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Mac OS X Users; Rid yourselves of Flash! |
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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| Author: | Squanto [ Tue Dec 07, 2010 4:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Mac OS X Users; Rid yourselves of Flash! |
PuckSniperPensel wrote: Why do you prefer Chrome over Safari? I've found that Safari is much faster/smoother on the mac than Chrome. 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. |
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| Author: | fly as hale [ Wed Dec 08, 2010 1:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Mac OS X Users; Rid yourselves of Flash! |
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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| Author: | Skyline_BNR34 [ Wed Dec 08, 2010 3:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Mac OS X Users; Rid yourselves of Flash! |
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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