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Adobe Flash Player Now Sandboxed in Safari on OS X Mavericks

makitango said:
So does this mean that I have no longer to install a system-wide Flash to have it enabled in Safari? Like in Chrome? That means I can uninstall Chrome and use Safari for everything, if that's correct.
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My thought exactly. I have an itchy trigger finger ready to uninstall Flash every time I see it in System Preferences.

Right at the bottom of the window.

Cold.

Alone.

Irritating.
 
Flash crashes so much that i have to play in the sand box.....

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not sure what i'm doing wrong, but i done a clean install of mavericks, and have tired to watch a flash video. i get a message telling me my player is out of date, but when i try to update, it does not let me. how do i sort this?
 
kd5jos said:
Respectfully, the minute people stop believing that, it will go away. I only say that because I haven't had Flash installed for several years now, and this is my daily use system.

I get there may be some corner cases... Yes I know people need to do there job and corporate (or powers that be) haven't migrated yet. I'm stuck in that situation with Java right now. As soon as my employer migrates away from Java (should be Q1 2014) my hassle free days of using the inter webs will begin.

I'm just sayin'...
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Xvideos.com uses flash. That means that unfortunately, Flash is staying on my system for the near future.
 
Auto sandbox - new plugin?

I updated my wife's laptop to Mavericks the other day. Once installed I checked Launchpad and noticed that she had a Flash icon - she must have installed a Flash plugin at some point, maybe to use Youtube perhaps.

Do you know if Adobe released a new version of the Flash player for Safari to accommodate the sandboxing? Or will the existing plugin be sandboxed automatically in Safari?

Ta.
 
I was very excited... then I used it. the Flash Player plugin was using around 43% of my CPU while clicktoplugin is around 10-12% watching the same video. It doesn't heat up my CPU as much, though.

I will be avoiding Flash for now.
 
Corrosive vinyl said:
I was very excited... then I used it. the Flash Player plugin was using around 43% of my CPU while clicktoplugin is around 10-12% watching the same video. It doesn't heat up my CPU as much, though.

I will be avoiding Flash for now.
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If you can get away with not having flash on your system, do.
 
spatlese44 said:
Actually, I think it does matter what version of OS X you've got. There was no App Store prior to Snow Leopard. I learned this the hard way trying to upgrade someone to Lion and couldn't. Ironically, by that point I couldn't buy a copy of Snow Leopard at the Apple store I went to.

And BTW, I have an ancient white MacBook from 2006 also. I don't think of it as that 'ancient', but it is getting a little dated. Given the relatively static processing demands web browsing and text editing place on a computer, I can hardly say it will ever be truly outdated. My i7 Ive Bridge Mac Mini is faster, but I wouldn't say it's a game changer. That said, what argument will any of us have in six years from now to say that a 2013 Mac is 'ancient'? 4k display graphics capabilities would seem to be the final hurdle and I'm not sure what more is after that. Smaller?
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All good points and you're quite right. My MacBook is still regularly used, have replaced the battery in it but otherwise it's working just as well as the day I bought it. My Mac Pro is fine for most things - I can even edit HD video on it without too many problems.

The point I was trying to make is that every media outlet that's run the report about the free update to Mavericks has stated that you can upgrade if you have OS X Snow Leopard which is factually inaccurate. You're quite right - you DO need Snow Leopard but the crucial thing is what hardware you've got as not every computer that's capable of running Snow Leopard (or even Lion) is capable of upgrading to Mavericks.
 
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