“This is all fine and dandy” - I hear you say - “But what if there’s some Flash content I do want to see?”. I see far fewer “Flash missing” boxes in web pages now than I did with ClickToFlash. With ClickToFlash, Safari is effectively telling websites you visit, “Yes, sure, I have Flash installed,” but then not actually loading Flash content. Static images instead of Flash for ads, for example. Without Flash installed, Safari effectively tells websites you visit, “Hey, I don’t have Flash installed”, which allows the sites to send alternative content.
#CLICKTOFLASH FIREFOX MAC OS X#
This is more or less the state Mac OS X is now shipping in by default. (ClickToFlash, if you have it installed, might be in the Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ folder in your home folder, rather than at the root level of your startup drive.)Īfter logging out and logging back in to my user account, Flash Player is no longer available to Safari or Firefox. I also moved ClickToFlash (“ClickToFlash.webplugin”) to this disabled plugins folder. All you need to do to disable them is move them out of /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/. I moved “Flash ugin”, “flashplayer.xpt”, and “NP-PPC-Dir-Shockwave” out of that folder and into a new folder I created next to it named “Internet Plug-Ins (Disabled)”. On my system, Flash Player was in the default location: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/. Gruber writes:įirst, I disabled the Flash Player and old ClickToFlash plugins. John Gruber has just done the same and has written a thorough entry on Daring Fireball talking about his experience.
And finally, today I did just that, I went Flash-free too. I made a folder called “Internet Plug-Ins Disabled”.īut I wasn’t 100% sure. If you want to do as I do, quit Safari, and move ClickToFlash, Flash ugin, flashplayer.xpt, and NP-PPC-Dir-Shockwave from those folders to somewhere else. Now you just get a “missing plug-in” image inline where the Flash object would have been. It used to be that if you completely removed the Flash and Shockwave plug-ins, by deleting or moving them out of /Library/Internet Plug-Ins and (Home)/Library/Internet Plug-Ins, you would get alerts constantly while browsing telling you that they were missing. When I heard that the new MacBook Air models were shipping without any Flash plug-in installed, the first thing I did was check to see if one of my long-standing Safari annoyances was fixed. Users that rely on the Adobe plugin should install Flash Player 18.0.0.209 that was released today.The other day, after reading this post by Steven Frank, I felt tempted to follow his steps: Instead, Safari has aggressively alerted users of outdated versions of Flash while requiring users to use the latest version of the plugin. At the time, the Apple co-founder was addressing the company’s decision not to support the Flash Player plugin at all on iPhones, iPads, and iPods due to several concerns including security.Īlthough Apple has moved to block support for older versions of Flash over security issues in the past and the OS X operating system has long shipped without Flash included, Apple has not completely disabled support for Flash in Safari. Mark Schmidt, Firefox’s head of support, linked to Jobs’ famous “Thoughts on Flash” essay from 2010 in a tweet address the temporary block. While the block doesn’t completely prevent Firefox users from using Flash, it does mean users will have to actively click-to-enable the plugin. Mozilla’s action also further highlights the growing concern over Flash’s stability as a secure browser plugin. Mozilla said today that it is temporarily disabling Flash by default until Adobe is able to address recent exploits discovered in the plugin… Yesterday we told you about Facebook’s security chief pushing Steve Jobs’ anti-Flash message and calling on Adobe to announce an end-of-life date for the plugin, and today a major web browser has opted to actually block Flash to protect users from security issues. It’s been a rough week for the fate of Adobe’s Flash Player plugin.
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