![]() I’m on 10.3.9 for my mac, so SafariPlus is not an option for me. I use it currently (version 1.5.2) without trouble and have Greatly appreciated the difference of flash ad free browsing for not bogging down my computers (mac or windows). You don’t seem to mention the Flashblock addon for Firefox. I have keyboard shortcuts to switch back and forth between the two browsers and stay on the same page. But for speed reasons, Safari has become my default browser. The web development extensions are a godsend. **I don’t agree with the poster about Firefox. But this test was performed with just a single page open so it doesn’t really reflect real world browsing. * Frankly I don’t find Omnniweb as fast as that nor Firefox as slow as that. A single Flash page lurking somewhere in a background tab and your computer is brought to its knees, difficult to even switch between tabs to find the offending animation. If anything Flash is even more pernicious in Safari than in Firefox as Flash well and truly cripples Safari. If you are looking for lightweight flash blocking in Safari, look no further than SafariBlock. Lightweight Flash blocking in Firefox at last!!! Safari With just a simple checkmark all flash is gone from Firefox unless you click on it:Īll past flash blockers I’ve looked at for Firefox have been buggy and top heavy. I had never realised there was a tool out there to allow the user to selectively allow scripts for certain sites and turn them off for all other sites.Įven more astonishing than ScriptBlock’s script blocking capabilities is its ability to block flash. Even my dual processor G5 2.5 GHz regularly shows processor load of 30% to 80% just browsing with Safari or Firefox.īut turning off all javascript all the time isn’t a very good option for somebody who uses productivity sites, like our project management system or Statcounter or our current photo solution. They slow down page loads but even worse they cripple the visitors computer, causing CPU loads to spike for minutes at a time. Frankly 90% of these scripts are useful to the people who wrote them but no use to the visitor. Frankly even our own sites have too many (2) javascripts running. There must be seven scritps running per page. Most media sites seems to be programmed by horned devils these days. Adblock is good, but lots of browsers do that now. Noscript disables all javascript by default and allows you to easily turn it back on on a server by server basis. (At least Firefox is a universal binary now). Even on Linux, Firefox is a dog, but noscript is just too good to browse without. I keep trying to leave Firefox, but I can’t browse any more without the noscript extension. There was a lot of talk about web browsers, quite boring really, unless you are a geek or a web developer. I found this lovely performance graph over at. I was wondering if there wasn’t a better javascript browser under OS X. I was trying to deal with a javascript problem in Safari while working over an invoice in the excellent Freshbooks. Minus the flashing lights and used car salesman in the side bars, I might even start liking the web again. There are two great plugins to kill Flash, one for Firefox and one for Safari.Īmazingly enough, neither have destabilised my browser. Until two weeks ago, I still hadn’t found anything lightweight to kill Flash in either Safari or Firefox, my two primary browsers. ![]() In any case, for work reasons, I have to keep Flash around just to see what other people are doing with their sites. With the amount of Flash video turning up on the web, I am not as tempted as I used to be to just rip the Flash code right out of my plugin folder. I’ve been searching for a way to easily turn flash off yet keep my computer stable. ![]() I have nothing against advertising but I don’t like anything which makes it impossible to read or difficult to work on one’s computer. They are popping up all over the place, from the New York Times to our beloved. ![]() One of the banes of the modern web are Flash advertisements.
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