[OSX-Users] Re: Important Flash Player update

[Jules]

On 07/06/2011 12:34, Hugh Glaser wrote:
> 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?
Yes, ClickToFlash (but the Safari extension, not any of the other 
packages with the same name).
I also install the extensions
     ADBlock
     Ultimate Status Bar
as they are absolutely vital in order to use the web easily.

> In fact, what are the extensions and other things you put on the systems?
The full list goes something like this:
     Snow Leopard
     Office 2011
     iLife
     Firefox
     Thunderbird
     Text Wrangler
     XCode
     Mathematica
     MacTeX
     JollysFastVNC
     Remote Desktop Connection
     VLC
     VideoMonkey
     Handbrake
     Audacity
     All2MP3
     Flash Plugin
     ClickToFlash (extension)
     ADBlock (extension)
     Ultimate Status Bar (extension)

If there is anything you would like added to this list, I will consider it.

I try to only put on there stuff that is actually *useful*, or that can 
be trivially removed (such as Mathematica or MacTeX).

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

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