Comments on: Browser Tip: Blocking Flash in Chrome

By: odoncoa

odoncoa — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:46:28 +0000

Thanks for the updates here. Indeed, Flash Blows. Nothing but a moving advert, wherever you happen to be; so user useful. And, don’t even consider the darker side of the Net, who employ it, either!

By: Barry Sotero

Barry Sotero — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:44:03 +0000

FlashControl apparently has the largest feature list.
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mfidmkgnfgnkihnjeklbekckimkipmoe

By: James

James — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:58:46 +0000

Personally, I wish Flash just dies. Other than video (which Flash also handles poorly), I don’t see a single acceptable use of the format. I hate it. Most sites that use it, I avoid unless there is no substitute.

By: James

James — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:55:21 +0000

to uninstall an extension, click the Tools button in the toolbar, choose “Extensions” and you’ll be taken to the extension page of the browser where you can disable or completely uninstall extensions – no restart necessary.

By: Bryan Schuetz

Bryan Schuetz — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:34:39 +0000

@Manu That’s great news, thanks for updating it.

@Matt Thanks, I understood what she was saying. I’m all for graceful degradation. However in this case it’s not that I don’t have Flash, it’s that I’m choosing not to let Flash load automatically when the page loads. If I want to click through and see the site in Flash I can, thereby successfully degrading from a site without Flash to one with Flash. :)

I’d agree that it would be preferable (at times) to move directly to whatever final fallback the sites developer has setup but as not all developers are as diligent as Marcy I’m not sure how one could write that into an extension.

By: Manu

Manu — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:21:20 +0000

I’m the author of “Kill Flash”. I have updated the extension to have an editable whitelist. It is still a work in progress. I created it because

1. Flash spiked my cpu
2. Wanted to learn chrme extension development.

By: Matt Rix

Matt Rix — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:10:24 +0000

Bryan, I think you missed Marcy’s point. She doesn’t want the user to see the Flash, she wants the user to see the *alternative content* that they’re supposed to see if they don’t have Flash.

By: Jon Henshaw

Jon Henshaw — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:01:01 +0000

Thanks Bryan. I actually found it on my own after I left that comment. For some reason, at least when I first started using the dev version for Mac, I couldn’t find/see that option in the menu, but I saw it today with the latest dev version. So it was either something with the dev version I previously had, or more likely, user FAIL ;)

By: Bryan Schuetz

Bryan Schuetz — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:11:05 +0000

@Jon if you go to chrome://extensions/ you should be able to see all the installed extensions you have, each one should have an “uninstall” link for removing it.

@Marcy I do disagree. These extensions empower the user by letting them decide when flash elements should be loaded into the browser. To be perfectly honest when the CPU usage of a browser window jumps from 0.8% to 85.4% when Flash is loaded I’m forced to wonder why that site would ever employ the use of Flash to begin with.

Especially when so much of what it typically gets used for could be accomplished in other ways. OK, embedding videos is one thing (hopefully something that will get better with HTML5) but again these extensions let the user decide if they want to take the CPU hit by loading that video or not.

By: Mohamed Muhtaseb

Mohamed Muhtaseb — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:02:50 +0000

If you installed RealPlayer on your Mac. Safari will have the same Flash Block. :)