Does Your Mac’s Safari Crash? It’s Probably Flash
I have one major, recurring complaint about Safari on my Mac. It crashes. Safari 4.x is a little better than Safari 4.x beta, which was actually worse than Safari 3.x.
The scenario is common. I visit a web site using Safair. The site has an embedded Adobe Flash video, usually an advertisement, Safari begins to chew up memory, then it slows down, then it becomes unresponsive, then it totally crashes. If your Mac’s Safari crashes regularly, quite often the culprit is Adobe’s Flash. Is there anything that can be done?.... (excerpted).
9 Reader Comments
Wendy said:
Firefox & my iMac have had the same crashing issue with flash. Thanks for the info!
Darwin said:
I don’t like Flash either but a lot of the best porn videos are Flash so i put up with it.
HammerOfTruth said:
Good article. It’s timed pretty well since Adobe is slamming Apple and the iPhone for not letting them get Flash on that platform. I do find it funny and ironic that an article criticizing and showing how to disable Flash would have so many flash ads surrounding it.
Editor’s Note: Somebody’s gotta pay the freight. We only get money when you click, so…
willis wayne said:
It’s bad enough that advertisements move all over the screen, flashing and grunting, but all that effort takes energy away from reading the page. ClickToFlash brings back peace of mind.
Now, if only they could do the same thing for all web page ads.
Candace said:
Alexis, how do you find such gems? This is wonderful. No more Flash or flashing ads. No more Safari spinning out of control.
Great find. Keep up the good work.
iggy pence said:
Gawd, I hate Flash. And Adobe. They deserve each other and Mac users deserve Click To Flash. What a useful little app. Well done.
Ronald Lanham said:
The irony is that this is exactly what Flash was supposed to prevent. That is… faster page loading… hellooooo…FLASH… as the name implies.
Even many years ago the use of Flash made webpages slower to load and more unstable. The reason… webmasters started loading down the webpages with huge numbers of Flash files that had to load.
I studied Flash while attending UCLA and saw the contradiction.
Remember when so many websites had (and many still do have) progress bars that appear and make you wait for ANYTHING to appear? Voila… FLASH!
I then made a decision to not include it on my own site.
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Daniel Weiss said:
Fantastic find! Excluding even the speed and stability gains from Flash-free surfing, this is worthwhile simply to have fewer obnoxious blinking and moving ads all over the place!