Clicktoflash safari12/24/2023 ![]() It was taken down, but the code was open source, and it had been picked up by occasional TidBITS contributor Jonathan “Wolf” Rentzsch. There is even a Preferences dialog where you can perform more advanced settings.ĬlickToFlash was originally written anonymously and maintained at Google Code. In place of the Flash content, a nice gray-gradient rectangle saying “Flash” appears when you Control-click that rectangle (or click a gear icon in the upper-left corner), you get a contextual menu that lets you load that one piece of Flash content or all the Flash content on the page, or add the source URL to a whitelist so that its content always loads. The really elegant thing about ClickToFlash is that it doesn’t block Flash indiscriminately or permanently. That’s why pages are rendered faster: there is actually less material to download from the Internet. Note that ClickToFlash doesn’t just suppress the drawing (rendering) of Flash content it suppresses its loading altogether. It also works in any other browsers that use WebKit, such as OmniWeb. Other Web browsers already have ways to achieve something similar (in Camino you can check “Block Flash animations” and “Block web advertising”, and of course Firefox’s vast repertory of plug-ins form a universe unto themselves), but this is the first time I’ve seen something that works so well for Safari. ![]() This causes Safari to render Web pages much faster. Why didn’t someone tell me about this sooner? ClickToFlash is a free WebKit plug-in that does one thing and does it extremely well: it blocks Flash content from loading in your Safari Web pages.
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