Mar 27, 2009

ClickToFlash

Just wanted to give a heads-up on this awesome Flash-blocker plugin for WebKit-based browsers (for most people, this means Apple’s Safari browser). Thanks to the work of Jonathan del Strother, who apparently is also the person behind CoverFlow, ClickToFlash is now usable enough to put in permanently.

Basically, this plugin puts a big square wherever Flash content would be, blocking it until you click to load that content. Unfortunately, some sites were broken with this, and wouldn’t work even after you clicked, including Lala, one of my favorite sites. Jonathan’s latest patch fixes these sites.

You can download the latest ClickToFlash source here, but you’ll have to compile it yourself. I’ll put up another link when the 1.4 release (which should include this patch) is put up in a built plugin.

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