“According to testing performed by Chris Foresman of Ars Technica, the new MacBook Air can last for a full six hours after loading a series of webpages in Safari, but its battery performance drops down to four hours once Adobe Flash is installed and the same sites are loaded,” Dilger reports.
Dilger reports, “With Flash ads consuming as much as 33 percent of the MacBook Air’s battery potential, it’s no wonder why Apple has demonstrated no interest in getting a version of Flash installed on its iPad, iPod touch and iPhone, all of which have much smaller batteries.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Goodbye flash!!
clicktoflash
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I wonder how long the MacBook Air battery would last rendering webpages of just text and pictures, no Java or Javascript or ads what so ever?
Firefox + NoScript + BetterPrivacy + Ghostery + TrackMeNot + Ad Block Plus
Throw in FireSheep as a bonus…and scare all your friends silly…muhallala!!!
Click-To-Flash and AdBlocker. Kicks out most of the crap.
I got rid of my click2flash plugin. I got rid of my flash plugin too. I’m trying Gruber’s idea of just getting rid of flash, and seeing how it goes. While I liked click2flash, I agree it seems to defeat the purpose if browser measuring stats still register that I’m using flash, even though I’m not.
I hadn’t installed Chrome before, and I’m not sure if I’ll keep it, but according to Gruber, it doesn’t use a flash plugin architecture, so if you have it, it’ll play flash, without requiring a plugin download. So, if there’s anything I have to see in flash, I have a failsafe, though going from Adobe to Google is only slightly better.
I use Click2Flash on both my Macs. I can’t get rid of my Flash plug-in – too many porn sites use Flash.
Just delete flash!
See this John Gruber Daring Fireball article for more info, and the best way to Click-To-Flash Safari 5.
http://daringfireball.net/2010/11/flash_free_and_cheating_with_google_chrome
Think of the environmental damage that fsucking POS has done already!
Whatever. What a bunch of whiners.
Just read the John Gruber article and installed the YouTube5 extension he mentions. Awesome! Plays embedded YouTube videos with HTML5 instead of Flash, in a player that raises the awesome level to 11!
——RM
“Click-To-Flash and AdBlocker. Kicks out most of the crap.”
It does and that’s what I have installed as well.
“Click-To-Flash and AdBlocker. Kicks out most of the crap.”
It does and that’s what I have installed as well.
I guess Steve Jobs is wrong about Flash… (I can’t wait until the undoing of the Nacbooks & ipads will be the exclusion of flash and price of course)
Skyfire iPhone App Sells Out Thanks to ‘Unbelievable Enthusiasm’
By HUGH COLLINS
A new app that lets users of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone, iPad and iPod touch view Flash videos is so popular that it has sold out.
The Skyfire 2.0 app acts as an Internet browser that plays Flash videos on Apple devices, e-Week reported.
Skyfire said on its blog that the app met with “unbelievable enthusiasm.” The company is now “effectively sold out and will temporarily not accept new purchases through the App store.”
Within five hours of putting the $2.99 app up for sale, it be came the top-grossing app, the third-highest paid overall and the top app in the Utilities category.
“Despite our best attempts and predictions, the demand far exceeds our initial projections,” Skyfire said on the blog. “We are working really hard to increase capacity and will be accepting new purchases from the App Store as soon as we can support it.”
See full article from DailyFinance: http://srph.it/9WFxtp
Jim,
Flash for Mac sucks donkey balls. You know all about sucking donkey balls, don’t you Jim?
Name says it all
On a similar subject… Is there a way to globally turn off those annoying VIBRANT ads? I hate those things, and Click To Flash doesn’t eliminate the actual pop ups.
@Flash Ads Suck:
Get the Safari 5 extension: Javascript Blacklist
http://homepage.mac.com/drewthaler/jsblacklist/
It lets you blacklist the sites that host the javascript creating those popups. Works great!
Non issue for me. Since getting the iPad, my
MacBook Pro has been ‘permanently’ bonded
to Apple’s 30″ monitor.
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