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For me the single best web experience improvement in the last year has been to install ClickToFlash: http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/ http://rentzsch.gi

by ned 17y ago

For me the single best web experience improvement in the last year has been to install ClickToFlash: http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/ http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/ Suddenly, Safari didn't slow down or crash unexplicably, fantastic.

tfh 17y ago
flashblock (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433) is one of the first addons I install for firefox.
ianbishop 17y ago
I think the only thing that would make my Safari experience more wonderful would be ClickTo(Animated)Gif.
- mcav 17y ago
  If you're willing to get rid of all gifs, toss this in your user stylesheet: img[src$=".gif"] { visibility: hidden; }
- brandon 17y ago
  Before there were dozens of decent ad-blocking extensions out there I was a big user of Privoxy. It had an action called "deanimate-gif" that would display only the first frame of the animated image. I'm not sure if Privoxy was downloading the whole image in the background in order to extract the first frame, and I don't know if deanimation used less CPU or RAM than just displaying the animated versions, but I loved the feature regardless.
ugh 17y ago
Strangely, ClickToFlash makes Flash crash more on my Mac. Whenever I click on it the browsers stalls for two or three seconds, my hard drive goes crazy and then it might work. Or crash. Since crashing Flash has become relatively painless in recent times (just reload the browser) I still leave ClickToFlash on, but it's a strange behavior nonetheless.
boundlessdreamz 17y ago
I have made a flash blocker for mac chrome. https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kfncbcioneejfnnelcdmocdjncbmceea https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kfncbcioneejfnne...
cake 17y ago
I don't know if it's just me but when I open a new tab in the background in Safari 4.0.4, the Flash doesn't load, it only loads when I activate this tab. Which is a great thing, I don't some awful audio coming from the flash. I don't feel the need of ClickToFlash on Safari. The problem I have with ClickToFlah or Flashblock is that you can't see the first frame of a flash video.

by ned 17y ago

tfh 17y ago

flashblock (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433) is one of the first addons I install for firefox.

ianbishop 17y ago

I think the only thing that would make my Safari experience more wonderful would be ClickTo(Animated)Gif.

mcav 17y ago
If you're willing to get rid of all gifs, toss this in your user stylesheet: img[src$=".gif"] { visibility: hidden; }
brandon 17y ago
Before there were dozens of decent ad-blocking extensions out there I was a big user of Privoxy. It had an action called "deanimate-gif" that would display only the first frame of the animated image. I'm not sure if Privoxy was downloading the whole image in the background in order to extract the first frame, and I don't know if deanimation used less CPU or RAM than just displaying the animated versions, but I loved the feature regardless.

ugh 17y ago

Strangely, ClickToFlash makes Flash crash more on my Mac. Whenever I click on it the browsers stalls for two or three seconds, my hard drive goes crazy and then it might work. Or crash. Since crashing Flash has become relatively painless in recent times (just reload the browser) I still leave ClickToFlash on, but it's a strange behavior nonetheless.

boundlessdreamz 17y ago

I have made a flash blocker for mac chrome. https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kfncbcioneejfnnelcdmocdjncbmceea https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kfncbcioneejfnne...

cake 17y ago

I don't know if it's just me but when I open a new tab in the background in Safari 4.0.4, the Flash doesn't load, it only loads when I activate this tab. Which is a great thing, I don't some awful audio coming from the flash. I don't feel the need of ClickToFlash on Safari. The problem I have with ClickToFlah or Flashblock is that you can't see the first frame of a flash video.