Saturday, March 23, 2013

Ridding your Chrome browser of Flash

I've been running Chrome for a couple of weeks without Flash and the differences are exhilarating.

• Fewer "disappearing pages"

• Fewer "sick" pages

• Zero "Flash not responding" pages

• Fewer reboots due to memory leaks

Best of all, most video sites no longer require Flash to deliver video streams (using HTML 5, I suppose).

Ready to take the plunge? It's simple. In your Chrome address bar, type about:plugins. You'll see something like this:


Find the Adobe Flash Player section and click any of the Disable links you see. If you have a master Disable link (see arrow), just click that one. Now close your browser and restart it.

My guess is you'll soon be enjoying your surfing experience a great deal more. And, as an added bonus, your security posture will be vastly improved.


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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:07 PM

    "And, as an added bonus, your security posture will be vastly improved."

    That is if you don't consider Google tracking and storing all of your information 'unsecure.'

    If you're in love w/ Chrome, try SKIron. It's based on the Chrome browser but supposedly strips out the tracking and reporting.

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  2. Rose1:24 PM

    Link for SKIron?

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  3. The MUSEman1:56 PM

    Everybody remember when Flash, Shockwave, OpenDoc, Java, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc. were going to take over the industry?

    Good times, good times. ;-)

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  4. Anonymous6:20 PM

    Sorry, it's SRWare Iron

    link
    http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php

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  5. Anonymous8:31 PM

    what if you want to play a youtube video, don't you need flash?

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  6. directorblue8:46 PM

    @anon 8:31
    Nope, most of them work fine.

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