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> I wonder if this will mean the end of Flash Player for Mac? You say that like it's a bad thing. I wish Flash on Mac would die die die. Youtube has the abili
by PhantomGremlin 12y ago
> I wonder if this will mean the end of Flash Player for Mac?
You say that like it's a bad thing.
I wish Flash on Mac would die die die. Youtube has the ability of showing me non-flash video on a Mac. And yet they often won't. The exact same video that won't play on a Mac will play just fine on an iPad. Evil bastards! With Flash dead, Google wouldn't be able to demand I use it.
- demallien 12y agoActivate Developer Tools in the preferences of Safari. This gives you a Developer menu in the toolbar. When a site refuses to play video on your Mac because it needs Flash, you tell Safari to pretend it's an iPad. The site invariably serves you the video you wanted, without Flash.
- PhantomGremlin 12y agoI read this advice previously on HN, and it worked for a while. Then Google changed something, and it stopped working. I don't know, maybe I was screwing up. Or maybe it's just easier for Google to roll ads ahead of the video when it's in Flash. Or maybe Google wants me to download Chrome, which has a built in Flash player. Not gonna do that until it supports NoScript. YMMV, obviously.
- demallien 12y agoNo, it still works just fine. I was using it just yesterday...