[OSX-Users] Re: Important Flash Player update

[Hugh Glaser]

Excellent stuff - thanks guys.
Jules, can you give us a hint of the name of the extension you install? :-) For us people who don't have the benefit of your installations.
Or are you talking about the clicktoflash?

In fact, what are the extensions and other things you put on the systems?

 
On 7 Jun 2011, at 11:50, Jules wrote:

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> 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.
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