Hi, You can change the behavior of ClickToFlash, including disabling it entirely or uninstalling it, and you can automatically add any web site (e.g. YouTube) to its white list by just doing an Option-Click (e.g., press the option key of your MacBook and click the trackpad) while you are on that page. The settings are under the Safari menu. VO-M to the menu bar, press "S" or Right Arrow to go to the Safari menu, arrow down and press "C" to go to ClickToFlash and right arrow to it's submenu. There is a shortcut to load flash to the frontmost page: Command-Control-F. Arrow down to the Settings menu. To disable ClickToFlash you can simply uncheck (VO-Space) the checkbox option for "Enable ClickToFlash". To uninstall ClickToFlash press the button (VO- Space) for "Uninstall ClickToFlash". To add a site to the white list of sites where flash loading is automatically allowed, use "Option- Click Flash to add to white list" as described in the Settings menu. Alternatively, you can navigate (VO-Right arrow) past the "Whitelisted Sites" table to the "+" button and press it (VO-Space), then VO-left arrow back to the table, interact (VO-Shift-Down Arrow), navigate to the first blank line and double click (with VO-Shift-Space by holding down Control-Option-Shift and tapping the spacebar twice). Then type in the URL of the page you want to add.
This menu setup is described under the Usage Notes on the download page in the six sentences that summarize the Contextual menu (that it can be found under the Safari menu), the ClickToFlash menu, and Uninstalling ClickToFlash (that you can press the uninstall button under Settings). Here's the description of the ClickToFlash menu: <begin quote> ClickToFlash menu: in certain applications, ClickToFlash will activate a menu item in the application's menu. For example, Safari has a ClickToFlash menu located at [Safari --> ClickToFlash], near the "Preferences..." menu item. This gives access to ClickToFlash's settings window and a few other features. Make sure to visit a page that has Flash on it to get this menu. <end quote> The main reason for recommending this plug-in is that a lot of the extra load on Safari that is responsible for the Safari busy messages is due to flash used on web pages -- animated flash ads that continuously update while you're trying to read content and other sorts of things. This plug-in keeps unwanted flash content from even being loaded and provides a quick way to enable flash on pages you do want (either by using Option-Click to add a page, like YouTube, to your white list, or by using Command-Control-F to enable flash on your current page). A user on another list reported that his CPU activity dropped from 95% to 2% on problem pages simply by installing and using the ClickToFlash plug-in from: <http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/> HTH Cheers, Esther Tiffany D wrote: > Yes, and that's when the troubles with youtube and ebay started. I'd > pretty much figured the first site would give me trouble but not the > second. How do I change the preferences in this plug-in? I couldn't > find anything about it in the Safari preferences and it's not showing > up as a separate application. > > On 02/01/2010, carlene knight wrote: >> HI: >> >> The item chooser simply allows you to select something on a >> screen. For >> instance if you are using Safari and you have chosen a news story >> link, you >> could start typing the name of the story once you have brought the >> item >> chooser up with VO/i and it would find it for you. it may show a >> link or >> two first, but eventually you could find the text. I love it. As >> far as >> the find feature goes, it works pretty well for me. I use VO/f >> most of the >> time as I find it more reliable than Command f. Youshouldn't have >> any >> nonsense to go through. Have fun and hope this helps. >> On Jan 1, 2010, at 5:30 PM, Tiffany D wrote: >> >>> I forgot to ask this, sorry. How do I use the item chooser and does >>> it work like the links list? Does the find command finally work on >>> pages so that I can just look for something without having to go >>> through complicated nonsense? >>> >>> On 01/01/2010, Tiffany D wrote: >>>> Well, I installed the plug-in. Hopefully, that'll fix the >>>> problem and >>>> it'll also let youtube videos load without me having to do >>>> anything. >>>> I had no idea what they meant by clicking on the gear menu but I >>>> guess >>>> I'll find it in the program's preferences if I need it. Btw, it >>>> says >>>> I have 10.6. >>>> >>>> On 01/01/2010, Les Kriegler wrote: >>>>> Hi Ester, >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for this useful app. I installed it, and although I was >>>>> not >>>>> having >>>>> many difficulties with Safari, I like the fact that many sports >>>>> team >>>>> pages >>>>> I >>>>> frequent no longer play the flash content that comes up. The >>>>> app was >>>>> simple >>>>> to install and instructions were given on the installation >>>>> screen to >>>>> uninstall if one chooses to do so. >>>>> >>>>> Les >>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
