Blocking Flash

2010-02-23 Thread Matthew Healey
Hi All, With all the well-deserved Flash-bagging going around I thought it poignant to mention a great little plugin for Safari called Click2Flash. http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/ Essentially, it blocks all Flash assets on a web page until you explicitly click on them. From a purely

Re: Blocking Flash

2010-02-23 Thread Dark1
Wow. Thanks for this Matt. Indeed there is a great amount of flash advertising. This link is very useful. Ruben Hi All, With all the well-deserved Flash-bagging going around I thought it poignant to mention a great little plugin for Safari called Click2Flash.

Re: Blocking Flash

2010-02-23 Thread Peter Sealy
I agree with Matt. I have been using Clicktoflash for a long while now and it works great. But it does not stop all image based advertising because a lot of advertisers now place their advertisements within the web page and don't use Flash. I don't know how this is done. I bet there is an army

Re: Blocking Flash

2010-02-23 Thread Eugene
Agreed Matt, I use the flashblock plugin for Firefox. It does the same type of thing https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433 Regards, Eugene -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: Blocking Flash

2010-02-23 Thread Eugene
Agreed Matt, I use the flashblock plugin for Firefox. It does the same type of thing https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433 Regards, Eugene -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: Blocking Flash

2010-02-23 Thread Rob Findlay
I love CTF, Can actually read sites without the fans starting up on my Macbook and the CPU meter going off the scale :) On 24/02/2010, at 12:07 AM, Matthew Healey wrote: Hi All, With all the well-deserved Flash-bagging going around I thought it poignant to mention a great little plugin

Re: Blocking Flash

2010-02-23 Thread Neil Houghton
Yes, I use Firefox but agree that these plug-ins are great for removing unwanted ads and flash - speeding up browsing significantly. There are several plug-ins for Firefox, but the relevant ones which I am currently running are: - Flashblock - as for clicktoflash on Safari it blocks all Flash

RE: Blocking Flash

2010-02-23 Thread Crisp, Peter
://www.hatch.com.au/ -Original Message- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Neil Houghton Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:49 AM To: WAMUG Subject: Re: Blocking Flash Yes, I use Firefox but agree that these plug-ins are great for removing unwanted ads

Re: Blocking Flash

2010-02-23 Thread Ray Forma
Peter, I find Firefox slightly more useful that Safari for my own particular purposes, but I know many others who have a reverse preference. In my 25 years of Mac use I have never installed anything specific to protect myself from nasties, and never had problems with nasties. Most

Re: Blocking Flash

2010-02-23 Thread Eugene
://www.hatch.com.au/ -Original Message- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Neil Houghton Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:49 AM To: WAMUG Subject: Re: Blocking Flash Yes, I use Firefox but agree that these plug-ins are great for removing

Re: Blocking Flash

2010-02-23 Thread Joe Mastrella
- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Neil Houghton Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:49 AM To: WAMUG Subject: Re: Blocking Flash Yes, I use Firefox but agree that these plug-ins are great for removing unwanted ads and flash - speeding up

Re: Blocking Flash

2010-02-23 Thread Neil Houghton
-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Neil Houghton Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:49 AM To: WAMUG Subject: Re: Blocking Flash Yes, I use Firefox but agree that these plug-ins are great for removing unwanted ads and flash - speeding up browsing