Do this and your web browser won’t crash as much

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I despise Flash. It slows down your computer, starts without being asked, and crashes my Internets. So until YouTube finally abandons Flash, as does the rest of the web with media-rich HTML 5, here are two easy plugins I use to grab life by the horns:

For Firefox: Flash Block
For Safari: Click to Flash

Both programs are free and make it so you dictate when a Flash file is played, as opposed to it taking over. Now that’s browsing with power!

—February 3, 2010

3 Comments

Nick

Feb 3, 2010 at 7:14 am

The world was so close to being rid of Flash a few years back … until Flash became the de facto format for video

Of course, Adobe buying Macromedia didn’t help. I love my Photoshops and all, but Adobe couldn’t make an efficient app to save their life. The good news is that it looks like factors are converging to kill Flash again: it’s inefficiency, the mobile market, and better web standards like HTML 5.

Baseless prediction time: in a year, I think it will be close to gone. 2 years, 90% dead. 5 years, a thing of the past.

Jeremy Hanks

Feb 4, 2010 at 5:17 pm

I LOVE Click to Flash!!! It’s change my life in the last couple weeks. I keep many windows, each with subtabs open. It’s my way of working the web. My record is around 45 windows with a total of almost 180 tabs at one time. Safari crashed regularly. With Click To Flash, haven’t had one crash in almost two weeks.

AmberWalsh

Jun 28, 2011 at 12:51 am

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Blake Snow

writer-for-hire, content guy, bestselling author

Do this and your web browser won’t crash as much

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