It does not disable most things, the only thing I've seen it disable is flash, and, when plug ins are disabled, some sites will give you an html version of the content, which is much more accessible. On Oct 8, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
> Hmm. I thought this would disable plugins like QuickTime as well and would > stop Safari from playing mp3s and such in the browser. Just tried it and > everything seems to play fine. Nice. > > CB > > On 10/8/12 2:19 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: >> If you don't want to install an extension, there's another way, I use this >> method. Unless you know you're going to be using flash, uncheck the option >> under security to enable plug ins, this makes pages load much faster. Then, >> if something requires flash, enable plug ins and refresh the page. >> Original message: >>> Dunno about the Seratec Network but I know a lot of folks use the >>> ClicktoFlash plugin to block flash from loading on pages. Seems to speed >>> things up quite a bit. Then if you really do want Flash to load you can >>> tell it to allow flash to load on that page. I don't know of anything >>> that only loads accessible flash. Not sure how a plugin would determine >>> that. >> >>> CB >> >>> On 10/8/12 11:36 AM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: >>>> Thanks, CB. That makes a lot of sense. I probably heard something about >>>> how flash is built-in to Chrome and misunderstood or got mixed up >>>> somewhere and stored the information as flash being accessible with Chrome. >> >>>> I wish more people used those HTML controls for flash playback. >> >>>> I do still have these questions though: >> >>>> How come people use Chrome to watch audio described movies on the Seratec >>>> SAM Network or whatever it's called? Does that have anything to do with >>>> flash? >> >>>> And what's the deal with those plugins that block flash but allow it if >>>> it's somewhat accessible or something? Are they at all useful to play >>>> flash movies? >> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Nic >> >> >>> -- >>> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >> >>> -- >>> 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. >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
