![]() Update – After posting I thought I’d give it another go. But it’s had real problems since I’ve updated and it’s rather driving me nuts, so maybe I might start to look for a solution if it doesn’t get fixed soon, which is a shame really. It’s particularly useful for my MBP and my Mac Mini, which I don’t care to try and backup using Time Machine over the network. I use this program on all my computers to give me a secondary backup for libraries and essential files like contacts, calendars and the like. There are some programs that I expected to be converted to 64bit much more quickly amongst these are:Ī great program, a worthy successor (or at least quickly becoming one) to Quicksilver, still very much beta – so why no 64bit love?Īnother essential program, no clear mention about 64bit yet – their most recent blog post on the topic doesn’t go into details. Why hasn’t it been done already? What its really shown me is how many pages have flash installed, most seem unnecessary and could be easily replaced with HTML5 features ( #dieie6 or if you must keep it add Chrome Frame! cheers google) For me the long death march for Flash has begun. ![]() Adobe has had a year to correct this problem. The most annoying of these has got to be the flash plugin, which frequently crashes and often wreaks havoc across my system. So I upgraded to Snow Tabby almost a month ago now, and despite constant checking of appfresh there are still a few programs that have not got on the 64 bit train yet… despite me crossing my fingers! So here is a delightful image of my Activity Monitor (unfortunately it doesn’t include all the 32 bit programs) I’m really enjoying this plugin, I hope you will too. Importantly it’s designed to allow sIFR images to load automatically, replace youtube videos with their H.264 equivalent played in quicktime where possible and allows whitelisting of sites where you always want flash to load. So download, install and get back to browsing the internet quickly and efficiently, only seeing flash where you want to. So no more annoying ads, preloading videos, Flash basically, which as I am sure you all appreciate is now a bigger preverbal pain in the butt since it was relegated to a sandboxed status is Snow Tabby. Which you just click when you want to view the flash file in question. Replacing flash files with this nifty clean-looking replacement image: Click to Flash Replacement Image But if you prefer the cleaner interface of Safari 4 (as I do) you needn’t miss out from some of these essential improvements to your browsing experience, the most important of which (in MHO) is Click to Flash, your own flash blocker.Ĭlick to Flash is the wunderbar creation of Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch of Chicago it’s basic job is to prevent flash from loading until you want it to. We all love browser plugins, it’s one of the reasons that Firefox is so darn popular. Youtube – iPad, iPhone optimised sites HTML 5 experiment for everyone else!Īdd anymore sites you know in the comments and I’ll update the list. Wall Street Journal – iPad Optimised Site + iPad App (download here)īrightcove – Supplier for sites like Wired, Slate, Time & NYT so expect to see them go over soon too! TED – Completely Flash-Free version of their website (see here and the official announcement via twitter here) The Guardian – tsmarsh informs me they use Brightcove so hope they’ll follow suit? Virgin America – Flash Gone Bye Bye! (see here, here and the official statement here)ĪBC – Official iPad App (see here, download here)ĬBS – Reports coming in ( here and here) of Flash-free video for the iPad So I thought it would be more interesting to give you a flash death watch tracking the number of sites abandoning flash: I think the only downside to Firefox is its CPU footprint, but even Safari has gotten to be a glutton in recent years, so the difference there is negligible.Īnyway, do some research on the inherent security problems with WebKit browsers like Safari and you'll likely dump it too.I’ve been meaning to write an article on the death of flash for quite some time now, I’ve abandoned a number of drafts as the deluge of articles have hit the interwebs on the same topic. You can really streamline your browsing experience and clean up a lot of the trash that's going on behind the scenes on nearly every website you visit. There are some really great and useful (and essential) addons, like NoScript and CS Lite and AdBlock Plus, AdBlock Plus with Element Hiding Helper, UnPlug, Better Privacy, AutoPager and more. My advice is to dump Safari and go with Firefox. It's just not secure and even with the Extensions available under 10.5 and later, they just don't compare one bit to what's available for Firefox (or Namaroka, a PPC-optimized FF build that I use). However, I really don't use Safari anymore. I wouldn't use Safari without it.whatever version you choose is probably fine. For me, ClickToFlash really rejuvenated how Safari worked for me.
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