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WebKit plug-in to prevent automatic loading of Adobe Flash content

37 points by Jakob 18y ago

Jakob 18y ago
It displays a grey box. Flash content is loaded on click. (works only with webkit browsers) It works! CPU load is way lower.
- pavel_lishin 18y ago
  I always loved Flashblock for Firefox not so much to save bandwidth/CPU, but to make sure that wherever I go, jackasses can't spam me with retarded videos and annoying background music.
pclark 18y ago
can't upvote this enough.
- Jakob 18y ago
  Yep, I’m happy I found it, too. You want to look after your "shameless plug" on http://www.broadersheet.com/yc.friends/ http://www.broadersheet.com/yc.friends/. The link goes to broadersheet.com (w/o "www") which fails.
  - pclark 18y ago
    thats weird. If you go to http://broadersheet.com/ http://broadersheet.com/ it works for me?
    - Jakob 18y ago
      Nope, not even a ping here. I’m using OpenDNS, seems like an issue on their side.
      - pclark 18y ago
        strange. I'll have to ensure my DNS is setup. Lots of my users will probably use OpenDNS - will do some reading! :)
      - blasdel 18y ago
        While OpenDNS is neither Open nor DNS (by default), they aren't fucking anything up in this instance.
timf 18y ago
Essential tool. If you use Firefox and want something like this, http://flashblock.mozdev.org http://flashblock.mozdev.org
- cninja 18y ago
  And for opera: http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/flashblock-for-opera-9 http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/flashblock-for-opera-9
akirk 18y ago
This was possible using SafariStand for a long time already. This is now a plugin and not an InputManager (which is layed on unstable ground (as Apple wants to disable them in the next OS X version)). The killer feature (and what sets it apart from SafariStand) actually is the whitelist. Option-click a Flash object and you can tell it to always load all flash on the current domain. Sweet!
nickb 18y ago
Wolf's awesome. Have his blog in my RSS feed and he always delivers quality info: http://rentzsch.com/ http://rentzsch.com/ I have a love/hate relationship with Flash. On one end, it's awesome for audio & video and on the other hand, it has such a shitty implementation on a Mac. It takes 40% of CPU just to decode a video stream which installed video clients can do in less than 10%. (Incidentally, ever since Adobe purchased Macromedia, quality of Adobe's stuff has been going down.) Flash also uses the old Netscape plugin architecture which has a horribly inefficient input & rendering loop that causes even background tabs to use a lot of CPU.
- lallysingh 18y ago
  Yes he is. Even worse, flash ignores its z-order on my box (firefox/solaris x86). Turns out lots of sites have flash on the front page, with dropdown menus above it.... ugh.
  - ed 18y ago
    That's actually the fault of the developer for choosing a wmode which doesn't support z-sorting. Flash has no problem hiding behind HTML content.
    - zhyder 18y ago
      Setting wmode to transparent/opaque exposes some Flash Player bugs tho (non-US keyboards print only US characters).

37 points by Jakob 18y ago

Jakob 18y ago

It displays a grey box. Flash content is loaded on click. (works only with webkit browsers) It works! CPU load is way lower.

pavel_lishin 18y ago
I always loved Flashblock for Firefox not so much to save bandwidth/CPU, but to make sure that wherever I go, jackasses can't spam me with retarded videos and annoying background music.

pclark 18y ago

can't upvote this enough.

Jakob 18y ago
Yep, I’m happy I found it, too. You want to look after your "shameless plug" on http://www.broadersheet.com/yc.friends/ http://www.broadersheet.com/yc.friends/. The link goes to broadersheet.com (w/o "www") which fails.
- pclark 18y ago
  thats weird. If you go to http://broadersheet.com/ http://broadersheet.com/ it works for me?
  - Jakob 18y ago
    Nope, not even a ping here. I’m using OpenDNS, seems like an issue on their side.
    - pclark 18y ago
      strange. I'll have to ensure my DNS is setup. Lots of my users will probably use OpenDNS - will do some reading! :)
    - blasdel 18y ago
      While OpenDNS is neither Open nor DNS (by default), they aren't fucking anything up in this instance.

timf 18y ago

Essential tool. If you use Firefox and want something like this, http://flashblock.mozdev.org http://flashblock.mozdev.org

cninja 18y ago
And for opera: http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/flashblock-for-opera-9 http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/flashblock-for-opera-9

akirk 18y ago

This was possible using SafariStand for a long time already. This is now a plugin and not an InputManager (which is layed on unstable ground (as Apple wants to disable them in the next OS X version)). The killer feature (and what sets it apart from SafariStand) actually is the whitelist. Option-click a Flash object and you can tell it to always load all flash on the current domain. Sweet!

nickb 18y ago

Wolf's awesome. Have his blog in my RSS feed and he always delivers quality info: http://rentzsch.com/ http://rentzsch.com/ I have a love/hate relationship with Flash. On one end, it's awesome for audio & video and on the other hand, it has such a shitty implementation on a Mac. It takes 40% of CPU just to decode a video stream which installed video clients can do in less than 10%. (Incidentally, ever since Adobe purchased Macromedia, quality of Adobe's stuff has been going down.) Flash also uses the old Netscape plugin architecture which has a horribly inefficient input & rendering loop that causes even background tabs to use a lot of CPU.

lallysingh 18y ago
Yes he is. Even worse, flash ignores its z-order on my box (firefox/solaris x86). Turns out lots of sites have flash on the front page, with dropdown menus above it.... ugh.
- ed 18y ago
  That's actually the fault of the developer for choosing a wmode which doesn't support z-sorting. Flash has no problem hiding behind HTML content.
  - zhyder 18y ago
    Setting wmode to transparent/opaque exposes some Flash Player bugs tho (non-US keyboards print only US characters).