[OSX-Users] Re: Important Flash Player update

[Jules]

On 07/06/2011 11:29, Philip Boulain wrote:
> On 07/06/2011 09:57, Julian Field wrote:
>> There has been yet another update to the Adobe Flash Player that many 
>> websites use (all those stupid animated adverts mostly).
>
> On that basis, there is a *lot* to be said for blocking Flash content 
> unless you explicitly click to see/whitelist it (e.g. YouTube), like 
> reducing the chances you'll ever even let a malicious animation load, 
> and stopping badly-written banner ads from turning all your battery 
> life into heat.
Agreed.
> For Safari, there appears to be ClickToFlash, which also special-cases 
> YouTube and some other video sites to use QuickTime instead(!):
>
> https://extensions.apple.com/  (It's all JavaScript-y, so you'll have 
> to search-in-page)
> http://clicktoflash.com/  (Its own website, but uses a pkg installer 
> and manual "uninstall" rather than the Safari extensions UI)
There is an "Extension" for Safari that implements this very neatly 
without any hacking around whatsoever. I have installed it on all Apple 
computers bought by ECS for about the past year.

I do, however, disable it by default (otherwise people will complain I 
broke their web browser).
All you need to do in Safari is go to the "Preferences" and select the 
"Extensions" heading, and you will see it there with a big button to 
switch it on.


Jules

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